- Paperback: 560 pages
- Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill; illustrated edition edition (1 Sep 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0079137059
- ISBN-13: 978-0079137050
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 19 x 2.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,295,940 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Building Corporate Portals with XML is the foundation book to implement this revolutionary knowledge management technology.
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Corporate Portals provide secure access to vital information and systems from knowledge resources throughout the enterprise and the world
You know the data is there. Why can't you get the information you need? Both administrators and managers alike know the frustration of maneuvering through legacy systems as well as modern complex data systems to obtain vital information. Now, for the first time, well-known authors Clive Finkelstein and Peter Aiken show you how to solve this problem using the most powerful technology available-Corporate Portals.
Corporate Portals unlock essential information from both structured data in relational databases and legacy systems and unstructured data in all documents and graphics files and provide access to the cumulative knowledge resources of an organization through a single corporate gateway.
Building Corporate Portals with XML is the foundation book to implement this revolutionary knowledge management technology. The book takes the reader from the planning stages to creating and implementing a new Corporate Portal using the Extensible Markup Language (XML) The book also clearly explains how to convert data from a legacy system into a modern Corporate Portal.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I expected this book to describe how business to business portals could be implemented using XML. However the book basically describes how to use Information Engineering to model business data and processes. There is very little on XML.
Firstly information engineering is a methodology which is not widely used (in investment banking anyway), and secondly it is not good to be misled about content like this.
Do not buy unless you wish to get an initial overview of Information Engineering.
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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Mostly a rehash of information engineering concepts
17 Sep 1999
This book starts on a bad note by not providing a rigorous definition of a corporate portal. This gives the authors license to write as if any system is a corporate portal.
Most of the book is composed of the authors' ideas on information engineering. Though they keep referring to portals, the information the authors present seems much more relevant to traditional systems development. The authors seem to have no concept of a corporate portal as intellectual (and tangible) middleware. Also, though they repeat the assertion that over 90% of the information business people use is unstructured, they seem to have left out any further in-depth discussion of the peculiarities of unstructured information.
The information on XML is pretty standard stuff. The authors fumble their attempt to make a case how XML fits into the concept of corporate portals (which would be hard to do because they have never presented a clear concept of a corporate portal.)
If you are familiar with the concepts of information engineering, you may enjoy the authors' latest thoughts on the topic. But as a guide to designing and implementing corporate portals, this book is a major disappointment. In a nutshell, the authors do not provide the information on what makes corporate portal development different from development of other systems.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Very pleasently surprised
19 Feb 2000
I picked this book up expecting to acquire a working knowledge of how XML is used in the building of corporate portals. I anticipated wading through a myriad of coding examples and references to this ERP and to that language. I thought I would find a logical road map of how to use my company's metadata and XML to open new arenas in the realm of e-commerce. I was anticipating an academic treatise. I was pleasantly surprised when I found that the title of the book was somewhat misleading. The book is actually a text constructed to educate the reader on the design, development and functionality of corporate portals. If you are looking for a book that you will be able to refer to as a guide to acquire a better understanding of corporate portals, I would highly suggest this book. It is both educational and enjoyable to read. But, if you are searching for a book to function as a technical journal that focuses only on metadata and XML, you should look elsewhere
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
What's in a Name?
14 April 2000
Good description of Data Warehousing techniques, etc but NOREAL HELP for XML Portal builders. I may be a little critical since Irun a PS organization that does this but really, there isn't much meat here around anything new. The title is only a clever marketing ploy and the writers admit as much in the intro. Pass it on by unless you need to understand DataWarehousing in General and are trying to sneak it by your manager as an "XML book".
Better for Data Warehousers is the Data Warehouse Life Cycle Toolkit by Kimball.
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