Client-server implementation: some management pointers

Author

Chengalur-Smith, InduShobha ; Duchessi, Peter

Author_Institution

Sch. of Bus., State Univ. of New York, Albany, NY, USA

Volume

47

Issue

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

127

Lastpage

145

Abstract

Using a sample of 350 companies, this paper investigates the benefits of client-server systems and links them to a set of implementation factors. The paper reveals that companies can expect competitive, operational, financial and technical benefits. It reports several important steps, activities and tasks that are positively related to those benefits, including defining clear organizational objectives and strategies, re-organizing corporate data and testing multiple levels of clients and servers. Furthermore, they list some of the problems that companies may encounter during a client-server implementation. The paper is relevant to managers and academicians who want to better understand the implementation of client-server

Keywords

DP management; client-server systems; management of change; change management; client-server implementation; competitive benefits; corporate data reorganisation; financial benefits; implementation factors; management guidelines; operational benefits; organizational objectives; organizational strategies; technical benefits; Business communication; Companies; Computer architecture; Computer network management; Distributed computing; Distributed databases; Network servers; North America; Pervasive computing; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Engineering Management, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9391

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/17.820731

Filename

820731