Integrated Solutions with DB2(R) (IBM Press Series--Information Management) [Paperback]

Rob Cutlip (Author), John Medicke (Author)

Book Description

Series: IBM Press Series--Information Management | Publication Date: November 7, 2003

This book provides an effective approach to the pragmatic use of e-business technology in the context of the most commonly seen solutions in business today. It enables technology professionals, IT managers, database administrators, and database developers to gain an understanding of major solution areas such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Business Intelligence (BI), e-commerce, and business to business integration. The authors explain how complex business solutions can be constructed using J2EE, EAI, and business process management technologies on top of a DB2 foundation.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Integrated Solutions with DB2

by Rob Cutlip and John Medicke

Foreword by Chris Wicher/Vice President of Integration, IBM Coroporation

• Use DB2 to enhance productivity, customer service, and trading relationships—and cutcosts
• Learn how to exploit technology for the development of complex solutions using patterns andbest practices
• Understand how DB2, Web services, and messaging infrastructure fit together
• Leverage DB2 in business intelligence, e-commerce, CRM, pervasive computing, enterpriseapplication integration, and beyond
• For every DB2 database developer, architect, designer, and manager

IBM's DB2 database platform is the foundation for an extraordinary array of highlyintegrated business solutions, ranging from advanced business intelligence and e-commerce toB2B integration and state-of-the-art pervasive computing.

Now, two leading IBM solution architects show you how to use DB2 to create flexibleinfrastructures that simplify the construction of any enterprise-class business solution.

Learn how to seamlessly integrate DB2, Web servers, development tools, messaginginfrastructure, and other crucial technologies. Then build, step by step, five specificsolutions chosen to address the core challenges facing today's enterprise. Along the way you'lllearn how to use DB2 to improve productivity and customer service, reduce operating costs,strengthen key trading relationships, and more.

• Leveraging the IBM Patterns for e-business to accelerate the delivery of integrated,Web-enabled solutions
• Using DB2, WebSphere, and related technologies to integrate applications, information, andportals
• Exploiting business integration technologies to bring together people, processes, andinformation to create a cohesive solution
• Creating automated CRM email systems with trigger-induced DB2 UDFs, JavaMail, andJAF
• Building high-value mobile and pervasive applications with DB2 Everyplace and DB2 SpatialExtender (SE)
• Delivering dynamic Web services and eSourcing solutions with DB2 XML Extender
• Architecting and building highly personalized e-commerce systems with DB2 technologies

If you're ready to leverage the full business value of IBM's DB2 platform, you're ready forIntegrated Solutions with DB2.

About the Author

About the Authors

ROB CUTLIP is a software and solutions architect with the IBM SoftwareGroup based in Research Triangle Park, NC. He's spent the last seven yearsbuilding integrated industry solutions. An author and inventor, Rob has15 years of experience in both technical and managerial positions withFortune 500 companies.

JOHN MEDICKE is the chief architect of the On Demand Solution Centerin Research Triangle Park, NC. He has designed solutions for variousindustries, including financial services, retail, healthcare, industrial, andgovernment. John has worked extensively on the exploitation of businessintegration, business process management, and business intelligencewithin an integrated solution context.

See all Editorial Reviews

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: IBM Press (November 7, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201754851
• ISBN-13: 978-0201754858
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,918,749 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Learning to Solve Problems, April 23, 2004

By 

Anne Fuller (Juneau, Alaska, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Integrated Solutions with DB2(R) (IBM Press Series--Information Management) (Paperback)

This is a clearly written, cleanly diagrammed explanation of current and imminent technologies. Yes, it is from IBM Press and yes, it's about DB2, but that doesn't mean it's old-fashioned. Great for programmers and even better for managers, this is the book to read before you read the ads in the glossy magazines.

Cutlip and Medicke do a good job of demonstrating that IBM products are useful now in forward-looking projects, from pervasive computing with PDAs and the integration of tools that analyze functioning to placing some info at the edge of the Web.

In discussing the IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer, the authors write, "Our intent is not to provide a tutorial on the use of WSAD because the tools, wizards, and application details certainly vary from project to project." P 140

"Proper tooling will lower costs and shorten delivery times while allowing developers time to focus on the more pressing issues of design and integration." P 134
This is not a textbook, but is a valuable source for learning.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Integrated Solutions with DB2, January 25, 2004

By 

Paul Turpin (Charlotte, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Integrated Solutions with DB2(R) (IBM Press Series--Information Management) (Paperback)

As a curious DBA, I have often wanted a better understanding
of how software integrates with DB2. I could find reams of
technical documentation explaining the software, but no good
high-level explanation. That is, until I discovered this book.
It gives a great high-level explanation of the integration, but
doesn't skimp on the technical details. If you need a quick
education into Java, and .Net terms you will find it here.
The book actually has a fairly deep discussion of many topics,
including web application servers, that I found particulary helpful.

The book covers IBM technology, as well as non-IBM products.
Although the book is full of acronyms and new terminology, it is
still quite readable.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Set of Case Studies, November 26, 2003

By 

W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)    (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Integrated Solutions with DB2(R) (IBM Press Series--Information Management) (Paperback)

You can think of this as a set of case studies involving different uses of dB2. It is not about low level instances of how you query or modify your dB2 data, unlike several other books in this IBM Press/Addison-Wesley series. This book builds upon those, by assuming you are already well versed in dB2 itself.

Each chapter is quite internally coherent, and most can be considered case studies. But between chapters, as you might expect, there is only a minor narrative thread. Only one chapter really delves into actual code description (on CRM email), and it is written in java. The other chapters give higher level examples of how you might plug different products together, some of which you might have to develop, rather than buy. The common theme, of course, is how they all sit atop a dB2 instance.

In fact, the discussion is well written enough, and general enough, that you might be able to swap out dB2 and plug in a competitor's database. Sure, there are dB2 specific traits mentioned throughout. But if you have the ability and the commitment to develop a project above dB2, in a similar way to those described in the chapters, then you surely are able to make the necessary changes if you use another database.

It is a tribute to the authors' skills that you can contemplate this. Though, given that they are at IBM, I doubt that they would regard this with equanimity.