Business Intelligence With Cold Fusion (E-Business) [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

~ John W. Gosney (Author), Christine Mears (Author)

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Product Description

"Business intelligence" is one of the hottest catch phrases circulating throughout the industry today and refers to a methodology for turning data into information. ColdFusion is a complete Web application server for developing and delivering scalable e-business applications. Business Intelligence with ColdFusion combines the two and provides a solid understanding of ColdFusion and project management principles while taking you through complete examples of how to successfully implement business intelligence. This book is geared toward the experienced application developer who might be new to ColdFusion. It includes a CD with a demo of a ColdFusion server, Allaire's Homesite and Studio, and a HTML version of the book.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 480 pages
• Publisher: Premier Press (September 14, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761528431
• ISBN-13: 978-0761528432
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,842,531 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, October 2, 2000

By	Kevin Carlson (Everett, WA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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As an experienced developer who's somewhat new to Cold Fusion, I had hoped that this book would provide some new and useful ideas and source code. Boy was I wrong.

According to the book review, "This book is geared toward the experienced application developer who might be new to ColdFusion." Yet, in the introduction, the book says "This book assumes no prior knowledge of Coldfusion development". That's for sure!

The first four chapters are a beginner's introduction to project management. Skip if you have ever been on a software project team or taken a class in project management.

Chapters five through nine are a rehash of the Cold Fusion manual. Skip if you have the manual or can download it from Allaire's web site.

Chapters 10 through 13, the heart of the book, cover developing a project plan and finally show us some code. The example code is deja vu all over again. Skip if you have any other book on Cold Fusion.

The second half of the book is a complete departure from Cold Fusion entirely (except for an Appendix on Cold Fusion Administrator - again, skip if you have the manual).

Amazingly, seven entire chapters are devoted to installing and testing SQL Server. What in blazes does this have to do with Cold Fusion? We're talking nearly 200 off-topic pages here ...

Skip the second half of this book if you have any book on SQL Server or (like me) are using Oracle and Apache web server.

This book might be okay for a first course in web database development. For serious developers who are truly interested in "Business Intelligence", I consider it a waste of money.

What experienced developers need is a book with a title like "Algorithms in Cold Fusion". How about it, O'Reilly?

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst Cold Fusion Book, October 10, 2000

By	A.Yap (Virginia United States) - See all my reviews

I have the 2 Ben Forta books + Mastering CF and CF for Dummies. And this is the worst of the bunch. I would not recommend this for advance developers. This should have been entitled "Project Management for CF" not Business Intelligence. I don't need a lecture on project management (which this book focuses). To the publishers - I want techniques for Business Intelligence not Project Management! Thumbs Down!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good overall introduction, October 7, 2000

By A Customer

I have some experience with ColdFusion development, and found the book to be a good introduction to an essential element of business intelligence--keeping the project on track. The first chapters of the book as well as the case study provided an easy-to-read introduction to the issue of project management (something I struggle with on all my development projects). Although the SQL coverage might seem superfluous, any seasoned developer will look to a robust database engine such as SQL Server to enable their applications: as it happens, I am fairly new to SQL so this coverage was a bonus for me. And, the CF examples--while somewhat basic--were nevertheless informative. A good start to a difficult topic--maybe there is a more robust, detailed second version in the works?