Blockchain for the Enterprise: The definitive guide to adoption of blockchain in the enterprise

by Manav Gupta

This is your definitive guide to deploying a blockchain solution in your enterprise.

This book takes the reader on a journey including the following topics:
•A technical understanding of blockchain for business - What does it really mean for a distributed ledger, smart contracts vs smart contract code, etc.
•Understand what a typical blockchain application looks like, how it integrates with existing systems.
•Example blockchain applications and how they are being used in the marketplace today, along with architectural overview, description of the various actors in the business network, etc.
•Enterprise considerations for using blockchain – how to integrate blockchain with existing enterprise systems, considerations for calling smart contracts
•Disruptive capabilities of blockchain such as Identity Management, Distributed Applications and how enterprises can leverage them
•Technical understanding of smart contracts, how to write them, design considerations.
•The various consensus mechanisms that are available, criteria for selection of consensus mechanisms.

256 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2018

Reviews

[Eswara · Rating 3 out of 5]

gives an good intro on enterprise blockchain in the initial chapters, but in the later part of the book, this waned away and too much of blathering. not much emphasis on selection criteria to why enterprise should or not choose blockchain