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Reengineering Business: The Shift to Client/Server

Lecture by David Vaskevitch. This video was recorded in January, 1994. David Vaskevitch addresses the inevitable shift to distributed, client/ server systems, and its implications in business process reengineering. He discusses business needs vs. technological pressures, and why the old application architecture doesn't work. Then he explains the planning and design of new systems, including methodologies, the mainframe's role, future application architecture, and the design of distributed databases.

Reengineering Business: The Shift to Client/Server


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