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a history of the computer services industry
By Jeffrey R. Yost
"Making IT work" was published by The MIT Press in 2017 - mau, it has 359 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Making IT work” Metadata:
- Title: Making IT work
- Author: Jeffrey R. Yost
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 359
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- Publish Date: 2017
- Publish Location: mau
“Making IT work” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: Case studies - Computer service industry - History - Computer service industry -- History - Computer service industry -- Case studies
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: x, 359 pages
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL26964808M - OL19751761W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 978286108
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2017002542
- ISBN-13: 9780262036726
- ISBN-10: 026203672X
- All ISBNs: 026203672X - 9780262036726
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"Making IT work" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Introduction
- 2- The industry's origins
- 3- Constructing expertise : Arthur Andersen, Diebold, and Canning-Sisson, 1953-1964
- 4- Processing data : IBM-SBC and automatic data processing, 1953-1964
- 5- Programming machines : computer usage, C-E-I-R, and computer sciences, 1955-1967
- 6- Integrating systems : system development and informatics, 1955-1969
- 7- The industry's identity
- 8- Cooperating competitors : ADAPSO, 1961-1982
- 9- Managing facilities : electronic data systems, 1962-1984
- 10- Sharing time : tymshare, 1965-1984
- 11- Expanding capabilities : IBM and Control Data, 1960-1988
- 12- Brokering contractors : Gentry Inc., Phyllis Murphy, COMSYS, and the NACCB, 1972-1998
- 13- Geographical and organizational change
- 14- Transforming giants, offshoring work, and creating clouds, 1982-2016
- 15- Conclusion
- 16- Notes
- 17- Bibliographic notes
- 18- Index.
"Making IT work" Description:
The Open Library:
The evolution of the multi-billion-dollar computer services industry, from consulting and programming to data analytics and cloud computing, with case studies of important companies. The computer services industry has worldwide annual revenues of nearly a trillion dollars and employs millions of workers, but is often overshadowed by the hardware and software products industries. In this book, Jeffrey Yost shows how computer services, from consulting and programming to data analytics and cloud computing, have played a crucial role in shaping information technology--in making IT work. Tracing the evolution of the computer services industry from the 1950s to the present, Yost provides case studies of important companies (including IBM, Hewlett Packard, Andersen/Accenture, EDS, Infosys, and others) and profiles of such influential leaders as John Diebold, Ross Perot, and Virginia Rometty. He offers a fundamental reinterpretation of IBM as a supplier of computer services rather than just a producer of hardware, exploring how IBM bundled services with hardware for many years before becoming service-centered in the 1990s. Yost describes the emergence of companies that offered consulting services, data processing, programming, and systems integration. He examines the development of industry-defining trade associations; facilities management and the firm that invented it, Ross Perot's EDS; time sharing, a precursor of the cloud; IBM's early computer services; and independent contractor brokerages. Finally, he explores developments since the 1980s: the transformations of IBM and Hewlett Packard; the offshoring of enterprises and labor; major Indian IT service providers and the changing geographical deployment of U.S.-based companies; and the paradigm-changing phenomenon of cloud service. -- Provided by publisher.
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