The Definitive Guide to Interwoven TeamSite (Definitive Guides) [Hardcover]

Brian Hastings (Author), Justin McNeal (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2006 | ISBN-10: 1590596110 | ISBN-13: 978-1590596111 | Edition: 1

The Definitive Guide to Interwoven TeamSite is the first comprehensive book about this enterprise-level content management system (CMS). Divided into five parts, it guides you through the Interwoven TeamSite architecture, key features, and detailed implementation. The book presents material using the Rational Unified Process as a development framework and project methodology. Each part of the book introduces the concepts and TeamSite features that you will need to understand in order to carry out each aspect of the project.

Complete with a working implementation and numerous visual guides, the book painstakingly covers the project process. The authors also include a crucial case-study of a fictitious financial services firm. Throughout the book, the authors share key development strategies, deployment principles, best practices, and insider tips that they have gained over many years of working in enterprise CMS environments at many different Fortune 500 implementations. The foreword for this book is written by Russell Nakano, who was a principal consultant and co-founder of Interwoven, author of Web Content Management: A Collaborative Approach, and who is the current president and co-founder of Nahava, Inc. The authors also discuss future product releases, including LiveSite, MetaTagger, and SaleSite. They share the future product vision of Interwoven and TeamSite in the epilogue.

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"Interwoven TeamSite is an enterprise-level content management system. This book is a user’s guide. It will be of value, probably great value, to people developing a content management system using Interwoven software. The general reader wanting to learn about content management software or the process of developing it will probably find the mass of detail overwhelming." (B. Hazeltine, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (2), February, 2008)

About the Author

Brian Hastings has been working with Interwoven Teamsite for seven years, and has worked as a content management system implementation specialist, developer and architect for clients such as AG Edwards, Mastercard International and FedEx. He currently works for FedEx, where he is a senior programmer analyst on the Content Management Team. He lives in the Memphis, Tennessee area with his wife and children.

Justin McNeal is an MCP, CCNA, CIW, i-Net+, Network+, e-Biz+ and IBM Certified for e-Business Solutions technologist. He has seven years experience of using Interwoven TeamSite and has worked as as content management systems trainer, analyst and implementation technologist for clients such as AG Edwards, Mastercard International, and Elsevier. Justin currently works for FedEx, where he is a senior business application analyst on the Content Management Team, and lives in Memphis, Tennessee.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 576 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (August 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590596110
• ISBN-13: 978-1590596111
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 7.3 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #388,461 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hits the nail on the head!, October 20, 2006

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Carol Woods (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Definitive Guide to Interwoven TeamSite (Definitive Guides) (Hardcover)

First let me say that I have never seen a formalized methodology such as the Rational Unified Process wrapped into a book on Content Management, let alone such a title demonstrate how to incorporate those practices into CMS work. I found this to be a novel concept and one that I feel will add a lot of value to my future projects. The authors share their expertise, not only with technical TeamSite implementations details, but also with some softer skills related to everyday IT/CMS life ( i.e., project management, requirements management, project deployment, and marketing). The book is broken up logically enough into sections which map to the specific RUP phase being discussed. Detailed coverage is given to TeamSite 6.5, with some additional coverage of TeamSite 6.7. Most of the Interwoven products are discussed, explaining why certain products could be selected, what their purpose is, and the value that they may add to an implementation. The authors also provide coverage of how to define a taxonomy in MetaTagger, using OpenDeploy and DataDeploy, using LiveSite, TeamSite Front Office, TeamSite Search, as well as extremely handy FormAPI and FormsPublisher references. Thank you and well done!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A valuable addition to any CMS professional library, August 22, 2006

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PM Queen (Mississippi) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Definitive Guide to Interwoven TeamSite (Definitive Guides) (Hardcover)

I have been using Interwoven for almost a year now, and I have already learned some things from the book. The RUP coverage is not as heavy as I would have liked; however since the focus is really on TeamSite and best practices for using TeamSite as an eCMS system, I can't subtract much for this reason. The authors provide excellent coverage of TeamSite 6.5 and also provide business information that is lacking from so many CMS books these days. This book is a great book for TeamSite up and comers as well as business users of TeamSite. The price is a little steep, but overall a very good book and worth the money.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent beginners guide to Teamsite and a great addition to the experienced professional's bookshelf, January 3, 2007

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J. Kepler (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Definitive Guide to Interwoven TeamSite (Definitive Guides) (Hardcover)

It is not easy to give an overview of the TeamSite product line in 537 pages, but Hastings and McNeal do an admirable job of covering project methodology, an overview of the entire TeamSite product line, and a deep dive into TeamSite templating and workflow.

This is certainly not everything there is to know. TeamSite is an almost infinitely configurable product, but you will not find as good an overview and introduction to TeamSite as this book. And that is not just because this is the only book on TeamSite out there; you won't find this kind of overview in Interwoven's manuals or Training materials either.

I highly recommend this book now, but if it comes out in an expanded second edition for a little less money it will be a no brainer.