Pearson to Publish Ebusiness Book Series With Intel

Posted on November 9, 2001

Intel Corp. announced it has selected Pearson Education/Addison-Wesley to publish a series of books to guide companies in the design and build-out of their ebusiness strategies. The series, entitled IT Best Practices, is being developed with researchers, vendors and end-users. It is intended to show information technology decision-makers how to use the Internet for greater business performance and competitive advantage.

``The rules for ebusiness have changed, with a greater emphasis on standardization, investment protection and unconditional uptime,'' said John Davies, vice president of Intel's Solutions Market Development Group. ``Many books have been written about different aspects of ebusiness and the Internet; our goal is to bring together expert knowledge from throughout the industry to make it easier for businesses to take advantage of the Internet for sustainable competitive advantage.''

The IT Best Practices series will be authored by contributors from across the industry. Each book will offer background and analysis, as well as directions for deploying IT infrastructure and managing IT operations. The first three books in the series, authored by META Group, are being published this month. Additional titles will be available in the first half of 2002.

``IT professionals turn to Intel for complete business solutions. We are delighted to work with Intel to publish these `best practices,''' said John Wait, senior vice president and publisher of Addison-Wesley Professional, a division of Pearson Education. ``These books will help IT professionals change the way they do their jobs.''

The first book in the series, The Adaptive Enterprise, by Bruce Robertson and Valentin Sribar of META Group, will help guide companies in the design of flexible ebusiness infrastructures that can scale as a business grows or to meet unforeseen circumstances. Enriching the Value Chain, also by Robertson and Sribar, will help companies organize their ebusiness systems around the needs of suppliers, partners, and customers. Securing Business Information, by Christian Byrnes and Dale Kutnick of META, explains how to keep information and IT assets secure in an Internet-based distributed computing environment.