Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Management or B2B Application Integration

Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Management

Author: Hiles

How long would your business survive an interruption? What if operations were destroyed by fire or flood, negative media drives away customers or the company database is stolen or infected by a virus? How well are you prepared to deal with disaster?

This comprehensive guide tells you why you need a plan and then will help you put one together, including fully updated, detailed glossary and additional examples from the USA, Australia and Europe. Clearly split into useful sections, the book is easy to navigate.

The Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Management has been revised and updated to reflect new regulations and standards by one of the top international authorities in the field, this is an important book for anyone within the business continuity industry.

Seven new chapters include coverage of:  US Homeland Security measures relating to IT; UK Civil Contingencies Act relating to business continuity; NFP 16000 (US National Fire Prevention Association 1600 Business Continuity standard); British Standards Institution/Business Continuity Institute Publicly Available Standard 56 and other current and upcoming standards; Other emerging standards: Singapore standard for Disaster Recovery service providers, Australia & New Zealand standards; Pandemic planning


With contributions from leading practitioners in the industry, The Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Management has established itself as an invaluable resource for anyone involved in, or looking to gain a detailed appreciation of, the rapidly emerging area of business continuity and disaster recovery within the corporate environment.

Table of Contents:

Contributors     xi
Foreword   Lyndon Bird     xv
Preface   David Honour     xvii
Introduction   Andrew Hiles     xix
An introduction to business continuity planning   Andrew Hiles     xxiii
How to use this book   Andrew Hiles     xxix
Achieving and maintaining business continuity: an executive overview     1
What are we planning for?   Geert Vancoppenolle     3
What is a business continuity planning (BCP) strategy?   Mike O'Hehir     27
A crisis management perspective of business continuity   Robert Heath     47
Multilateral continuity planning   Dennis C. Hamilton     59
Marketing protection: a justification for funding of total asset protection programmes?   Andrew Hiles     73
Operational risk management   Peter Viner     83
Business strategy and business continuity planning   Ranjit Kovilinkal Ramakrishnan   Satish Viswanathan     97
Planning for business continuity: a 'how-to' guide     103
The business continuity planning methodology   Malcolm Cornish     105
Project initiation and management   Jayne Howe     119
Risk evaluation and control: practical guidelines for risk assessment   Ian Charters     137
Business impact analysis   Peter Barnes     145
Developing business continuity strategies for the business or work areas   Neal Courtney     161
Business continuity strategies for financial services   Jillian Simms     173
Business continuity strategies for manufacturing and logistics   Melvyn Musson     185
Business continuity for telecommunications   Paul P. Kirvan     193
Strategies for IT and communications   Michael Smith   Piper-Anna Shields     205
Planning to recover your data   Thomas Carroll     237
Strategies for funding recovery   Danny Rowland     253
Emergency response and operations   Gregg C. Beatty     263
Developing and implementing the written plan   Andrew Hiles     279
Awareness and training   Andrew Hiles     315
BC plan testing   Tim Armit     323
BC audit   Rolf von Rossing     339
Selecting the tools to support the process   Lyndon Bird     369
Coping with people in recovery   Allen Johnson      387
The missing elements   Andrew Hiles     405
Case studies   Peter Barnes   Andrew Hiles     411
An introduction to the case study section     412
Storm, earthquake, explosion - a general overview     416
Living nightmares - some apocryphal tales     420
World Trade Center explosion 26 February 1993     423
Hurricane Andrew, Miami - 24 August 1992     426
Chicago floods - 13 April 1992     429
Thirty seconds of terror! The California earthquake     431
After the Fire - First Interstate Bank, Los Angeles     435
One Meridian Plaza, Philadelphia     437
The Mercantile fire     442
How floods can ruin your day: London College of Printing     447
Flood highlights     449
A cautionary tale     451
It happened to them     454
Fire highlights     457
Wessex Regional Health Authority     459
The Bishopsgate bomb - 25 April 1993     462
City bomb blast: St Mary Axe - 10 April 1992     465
Explosion roundup     467
Stop thief!     469
Miscellaneous highlights     472
Lessons in risk management from the Auckland power crisis     475
Foot and mouth: a preventable disaster     486
The Madrid rail bombings - 11 March 2004     495
Istanbul bombings - November 2003     497
London bombings - 7 July 2005 (7/7)     498
Buncefield (UK) oil terminal disaster - 11 December 2005     501
General guideline notes   Andrew Hiles     507
Risk: a process approach     508
Data loss: where did it go?     510
The role of insurance     517
Five nines: chasing the chimera?     522
Consultancy without tears     528
Financing business continuity: why is it a problem?     531
Pandemic planning   Malcolm Cornish     534
Certification standards     545
Certification standards for business continuity practitioners     546
International perspectives, standards and sources     551
The implications of recent legislation and standards on business continuity   Andrew Hiles     552
Business continuity management: an international perspective from the BCI   Lyndon Bird     565
Business continuity planning in Asia   Alan Craig     573
Useful international contacts     588
Glossary of general business continuity terms     591
Index     595

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B2B Application Integration: e-Business-Enable Your Enterprise

Author: David S S Linthicum

e-Business is no longer a buzzword; it is a reality in which internal and external business systems customers, financial partners, suppliers, and support operations communicate and execute transactions instantly and automatically. These emerging electronic business-to-business (B2B) relationships require a new type of integration technology that is dependent on intelligent, flexible middleware layers that glue disparate applications, databases, and processes together.

B2B Application Integration is a comprehensive guide to the concepts, techniques, and technologies that enable application integration, the technical foundation of e-Business. Noted application integration expert David Linthicum details real-time application integration solutions and explains how middleware layers work to create a seamless whole out of numerous independent systems, both within and between enterprises.

Inside you will find in-depth coverage of the five types of B2B application integration: data-oriented, application interface-oriented, method-oriented, portal-oriented, and process integration-oriented. B2B Application Integration also describes in detail available middleware technologies and existing and emerging B2B application integration standards. Specific topics covered include:

• Enabling B2B application integration standards, including XML, RosettaNet, BizTalk, and XSLT
• Message brokers and B2B integration servers for B2B application integration
• EAI technology and B2B application integration
• Database-to-database integration models
• Integrating with packaged applications and vertical market interfaces
• Frameworks, distributedobjects, and transaction servers for method-oriented B2B application integration
• Portal-oriented integration, focusing on Web enablement technologies
• Digital exchanges and B2B application integration
• Tools and approaches for process integration-oriented B2B application integration
• Transactional middleware, including Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), Transactional COM+, and their use with application servers
• Java middleware standards such as JMS, EJB, J2EE, and RMI
• Traditional RPCs and Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM)
• Distributed objects, including CORBA and COM+
• Database-oriented middleware, including ODBC, JDBC, and OLE DB

Also discussed are the ways to evaluate and choose the most effective application-integration approaches and technologies for your organization. This book will give you a clear understanding of the tools and techniques required for successful application integration and the know-how you need to put them to work to create a successful e-Business solution.

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Examines electronic business-to-business (B2B) relationships and the technology required as middleware layers to glue together disparate applications, databases, and processes. Individual sections address five types of B2B application integration: data-oriented, application interface-oriented, method-oriented, portal-oriented, and process integration-oriented. The author deals with message brokers, application servers, XML, RosettaNet, BizTalk, and EDI. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)