Building the Corporate Intranet [Paperback]

Steve Guengerich (Author), Douglas Graham (Author), Mitra Miller (Author), Skipper McDonald (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 047116268X | ISBN-13: 978-0471162681 | Publication Date: November 26, 1996 | Edition: 1

Building a corporate intranet requires integrating two very different technologies; web development tools and enterprise-wide legacy systems. Few people possess enough experience in both areas to successfully make these technologies work together. The authors, leading consultants at BSG, explain the tools and techniques necessary for building an Intranet system. This book will show how to plan, design and build a corporate intranet system, including how to arrange and mange the project team and what tools for building a system are available, including HTML, Java, and Shockwave.

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Building a corporate intranet requires integrating two very different technologies; web development tools and enterprise-wide legacy systems. Few people possess enough experience in both areas to successfully make these technologies work together. The authors, leading consultants at BSG, explain the tools and techniques necessary for building an Intranet system. This book will show how to plan, design and build a corporate intranet system, including how to arrange and mange the project team and what tools for building a system are available, including HTML, Java, and Shockwave.

From the Back Cover

A complete blueprint for planning and building a fast, efficient company Intranet

Building the Corporate Intranet was designed to get you quickly up and running with all of the guidance and skills you need to plan and build a flexible, cost-effective, easy-to-manage corporate Intranet. Not just another HTML or Web site authoring book, Building the Corporate Intranet walks you through a unique 12-step program designed specifically with Intranets in mind. The authors begin with the business and technology considerations for building an Intranet, then clearly outline the physical and logical design of an Intranet network. They describe the full range of Web-based development tools and techniques, as well as the latest generation of Web-based client/server technologies. And they provide easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions on how to integrate Web technologies with legacy systems to build an Intranet.

Building the Corporate Intranet features:
* Unique checklists, surveys, workplans, and other helpful tools that streamline and foolproof the implementation process
* Practical coverage of the full range of commercial Intranet tools, including Netscape, Java, and Shockwave, from vendors such as Sun, Microsoft, and others
* Guidelines on how to organize and manage your Intranet development team
* Real-life "best-use" case studies and examples

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Product Details

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (November 26, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 047116268X
• ISBN-13: 978-0471162681
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,607,693 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A complete waste of time and money. Don't buy it !!, June 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Building the Corporate Intranet (Paperback)

This book is totally "light" and superficial. It's like reading a poor article in a magazine. It hasn't the appropiate level of discussion for each point. I've read it in five days, wondering when I'd find something that really worths. I've finished it, and I'm still waiting !!!.

In each chapter, the authors give you a short description of some basics facts about technologhy, or any other not technical fact; but anyway facts that you should already know if you're an IT professional.

Everywhere in the book, you can find the phrase "for more information, call the specialists". The specialists, of course, are companies like BSG, where they used to work. But you can't find the author. That company has been sold, so the book references to a lot of resources that doesn't exist anymore.

I strongly recommend you not to read it.

If you have to manage the bulding process of a corporate Intranet, I think I can give you some help. There are some serious works about human facts, functional facts, and management facts in an Intranet. "Intranet Organization", by Steven Tellen is a good one. It's online, search for it (I can't put URLs here). I don't know if it is a printed version, but it should. I've also good references for "The Human Side of Intranets", by Jerry W. Koehler.

If you're a developer, instead, I recommend you to start with "Intranets Unleashed". It gaves you a good introduction to each technologhy point.

The conclussion about the book: it is not technical, it is not functional. Really bad. 400 pages about nothing !!!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Painful Lullaby, July 12, 1999

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This review is from: Building the Corporate Intranet (Paperback)

I don't like books that put me to sleep and this one did. I was hoping to read in detail about intranets (hardware, software,and construction) but this book was pretty basic. It would be no help to someone looking to create an Intranet from scratch but more for someone who wants a 400 page dictionary definition of Intranet. It was a bore and a waste of time and I suggest you read all the reviews before buying this book.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A straightforward, nuts and bolts how to cookbook, February 11, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Building the Corporate Intranet (Paperback)

You've heard the hype. You've heard that it is easy. What you haven't heard is what it really takes to get a corporate intranet going. This book provides detailed how-to-do-it steps that are applicable for an intranet from a five person lan to medium size organization. The technical detail is accurate even for the larger organization, but the authors side-step the political and technical complexity of integrating an intranet into the typical Fortune 200 hundred company. For the rest of the world, you get a step by step overview of the technology, the components, and the required suppliers (such as internet service providers (ISP)),

I recommend this book because it is technically accurate, logically and sequentially laid out, and because it contains all that you need to know to implement an intranet. It even outline a budget. The chapters are laid out so that you can begin where you are or use the book as a reference on a particular issue. One of the reasons for a consulting firm such as BSG Consulting to publish such a book is to demonstrate that they have the expertise to do the job. This book succeeds in this demonstration.