Corporate Portals and eBusiness Integration [Paperback]

Mark Davydov (Author)

Book Description

Series: Emerging Business Technology Series | Publication Date: May 1, 2001

This text investigates Enterprise Integration Portals (EIPs), and discusses the best way to use them for the success of a business. It explains the fundamental structure of the ebusiness environment and shows how to develop strategies to enable the business process to continue. The book covers the impact of technology, the challenges for business-to-business companies, the role of the portal, how to cut costs and enhance Internet access at the same time, how to enhance business intelligence, security, customer service on the Web, and more.

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From the Back Cover

All About Corporate Portals­­and Why e-Business Leaders like Dell, Cisco, and Broderbund Software Consider Them Essential

The e-business environment is a tangle of disconnected and often incompatible data sources and applications. Today's hottest business tools­­corporate portals­­make it easier to navigate that maze and to provide your customers, clients, and coworkers with easier access to every aspect of your organization's information and services. But what exactly are portals, and how can you seamlessly integrate them into your corporation's e-business infrastructure?

Corporate Portals and e-Business Integration provides a clear, "no-code" guide to understanding and employing portal technologies in your corporation. Look to this concise-yet-comprehensive guide to determine how your organization can use portals to:

• Better understand­­and manage­­the e-business needs of every user
• Provide better, faster online customer service while increasing on-line security
• Structure your technologies to fully exploit the world of e-business opportunities

Successful management in today's fast-moving e-business environment doesn't require you to know how to accomplish every task; it does, however, require you to know what tools are critical and why. Let Corporate Portals and e-Business Integration take you beyond the technical capabilities and requirements of portal technology to describe how it can transform your organization­­and establish a strong, flexible, and progressive e-business strategy.

About the Author

Mark Davydov Director of Strategic Data Management & Core Enterprise Business Systems, Galileo International, LLC, He is an established expert in the field of information management, specializing in advanced systems architecture and data management solutions. He has held a number of senior technical and managerial positions for several large corporations in transportation, telecommunications and banking industries. In addition, he has consulted extensively in the cnterprise-wide systems architecture planning and implementation area with more than 30 of Fortune 500 companies, including Ralston Purina, Southwestern Bell, MasterCard, EdwardJones, Royal Bank of Canada, American Management Systems, and University of Wollongong. Mark M. Davydov received the degree of Diplom-cybernetician from the institute of Chemical Engineering in Moscow, Russia, and a doctor's degree in Computer Science with specialization in database software engineering from the Karpov Scientific Research Institute of Physics and Technology in Moscow, Russia. In his doctoral thesis he presented a method and a federated database architecture for integrating heterogeneous applications and data sources, a so-called "Common Operational Data Bank (CODB) architecture". CODB can also be regarded an enterprise modeling methodology and as an interoperability solution to support the execution of integrated business processes. As the latter, the Commission of the European Communities has accepted it as a reference model for the ESPRIT Programme in 1984. Mark M. Davydov is the holder of patents on specialized database software and modeling techniques registered in Russia and Germany. He has published extensively in top journals on developing concepts, principles, tools, methods, and techniques related to e-business, data management, data warehousing, and other critical issucs of information management.

Product Details

• Paperback: 268 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1st edition (May 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071371796
• ISBN-13: 978-0071371797
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,205,182 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Review by a senior software architect., November 27, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Corporate Portals and eBusiness Integration (Paperback)

This book is overwritten and filled with jargon and acronyms. By acronyms, I don't mean commonly used ones like ERP, CRM, B2B, B2E, and B2C but rather ones like EEP, EMP, BIP, BCE, UIP, EAI, PCSB, A2A ODS, KRC, EII, EBSTA, VE, DW, CPF, TPRC, MTDCAA ... I could go on (and on). If you enjoy reading acronyms and hopelessly convoluted, pompous, rambling, unfocused prose, then look no further and buy this book. Otherwise, at least preview it before ordering.

The narrative is very abstract and non-specific. There are no concrete examples or business cases. The author makes many generalizations about technology and business without backing them up. Portals are not even discussed until a quarter of the way in -- before that there is a seeming endless primer on e-business. Obvious and widely accepted facts are presented and repeated many times. Everything is repeated many times.

The author suggests that this book might be suitable for a Masters-level student. I'll give him that it reads like a textbook, but that doesn't HIDE the fact there is very little information here and what is here is nearly inaccessible due to the style of writing.

I finished this book because I though that it would get better at some point. It didn't. I've read hundreds of computer-related titles about software architecture, development methodologies, programming, and technology in general, and this is in the bottom 10%.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Corporate information, distribution,and education made easy, March 29, 2001

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Gus Edward Myers (Denton, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Corporate Portals and eBusiness Integration (Paperback)

Corporate Portals provides you with a clear, practical, and detailed picture of all the technical and organizational issues involved in rating a corporate portal solution. Collins defines and clarifies the main benefits on a corproate portal and the explores each in depth: 1. Better dicision-making capabilities through access to aggragated information residing in many different systems and physical locations. 2. A consistent view of ylour organization that allows employees to easily find information through a single, user-friendly interface. 3. Sophisticated information orgainzation and search capabilities 4. Direct access to corporate knowledge and resources. 5. Direct links to reports, analyses, queries, relative data, and knowledge experts

Thank you, this is exactly what I needed to begin planning my intranet upgrade to a portal solution.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The reality check, October 22, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Corporate Portals and eBusiness Integration (Paperback)

Davydov's book is exactly what our application development organization needed to ramp up its portal strategy. This book is a voice talking beyond the "silver-bullet" hype of all kinds of Internet technologies to the bigger picture. I'a a seasoned software engineer and project manager, and this book helped me to get a firm grasp on the problem/opportunity/goal before jumping down to the details.