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Enterprise Information Portals and Knowledge Management (KMCI Press)

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This excellent book is designed to introduce the reader to portal technology and architecture, give him or her an explanation of the leading portal products, and show how well they deliver the promise of facilitating knowledge management within organizations. It succeeds very well in this, and will prove to be an excellent reference for a variety of readers. Managers can gain an overview of the reasons for and promise of portals; system architects will find out how they integrate with data warehouses and information management systems; and everyone will learn that the notion of a "Knowledge" portal requires more than has been stated in the many loose uses of the term so far.
In fact the book is a good explanation of the author's approach to knowledge management, which is the most rigorous and logically sound approach that I know of. He takes the ideas of "knowledge", "knowledge processing" and "knowledge management" very seriously, and this book will give the reader a good understanding of this. He then analyzes portal technology in the light of this view of KM, and specifies what a portal must be in order to allow the implementation of true, "third-generation" KM.
As such the book is different, and possibly unique, both in the depth of its analysis, and the clarity of its logic.
I can thoroughly recommend this book to those want to understand portals, and those who need to understand KM, particularly those who have become cynical about it. The analysis of the combination of both in the "enterprise knowledge portal" that the author gives is better than anything that I have seen before.

The single line spacing makes the contents very hard to read. The contents are of very high level stuff. They may be good for IT managers or architecturers, but are hardly valuable for developers. If you are a developer, be careful that, as the KMWorld Magazine says, "No one understands ...".