Building Corporate Portals with XML - Softcover

Aiken, Peter; Finkelstein, Clive

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0079137059 ISBN 13: 9780079137050

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1999

Synopsis

Building Corporate Portals with XML is the foundation book to implement this revolutionary knowledge management technology.

About this title

About the Author

Clive Finkelstein (Perth, Western Australia) is acknowledged worldwide as the "Father" of Information Engineering (IE), having developed its concepts from 1976-1980 based on original work carried out by him to bridge from strategic business planning to information systems. He has over 50 years' experience in the Computer Industry.  He has been a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) since 1972 and was inducted into the ACS Pearcey IT Hall of Fame in 2008. 

 Peter Aiken  (Richmond, VA) has been employed in information technology/management related positions since 1980. His publications have appeared in the Communications of the ACM, the IBM Systems Journal, Hypermedia, Information Week and a number of others. His achievements have resulted in recognition in The Dictionary of International Biographies, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who Among America's Teachers, and other biographical compilations.

From the Back Cover

Corporate Portals provide secure access to vital information and systems from knowledge resources throughout the enterprise and the world

You know the data is there. Why can't you get the information you need? Both administrators and managers alike know the frustration of maneuvering through legacy systems as well as modern complex data systems to obtain vital information. Now, for the first time, well-known authors Clive Finkelstein and Peter Aiken show you how to solve this problem using the most powerful technology available-Corporate Portals.

Corporate Portals unlock essential information from both structured data in relational databases and legacy systems and unstructured data in all documents and graphics files and provide access to the cumulative knowledge resources of an organization through a single corporate gateway.

Building Corporate Portals with XML is the foundation book to implement this revolutionary knowledge management technology. The book takes the reader from the planning stages to creating and implementing a new Corporate Portal using the Extensible Markup Language (XML) The book also clearly explains how to convert data from a legacy system into a modern Corporate Portal.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0079137059
• ISBN 13: 9780079137050
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512