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Title: Corporate Portals and eBusiness Integration by Mark M. Davydov ISBN: 0-07-137179-6 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An opinion of Chief Enterprise Architect
Comment: There's plenty of hype, and lots of information, but no common understanding - even now in December of 2002 - as to what constitutes a corporate portal, most importantly, from a technology perspective. After reading this book, I strongly feel it does shed some light. It helped me to understand that the label "portal," as broadly applied, has two levels of meanings-one specific (application oriented) and one conceptual (architecture oriented), and that focusing on the conceptual meaning is very important to get enterprise integration efforts under control. The #1 book ("MUST READ") for a serious architect!!!
Rating: 1
Summary: Review by a senior software architect.
Comment: This book is overwritten and filled with jargon and acronyms. By acronyms, I don't mean commonly used ones like ERP, CRM, B2B, B2E, and B2C but rather ones like EEP, EMP, BIP, BCE, UIP, EAI, PCSB, A2A ODS, KRC, EII, EBSTA, VE, DW, CPF, TPRC, MTDCAA ... I could go on (and on). If you enjoy reading acronyms and hopelessly convoluted, pompous, rambling, unfocused prose, then look no further and buy this book. Otherwise, at least preview it before ordering.
The narrative is very abstract and non-specific. There are no concrete examples or business cases. The author makes many generalizations about technology and business without backing them up. Portals are not even discussed until a quarter of the way in -- before that there is a seeming endless primer on e-business. Obvious and widely accepted facts are presented and repeated many times. Everything is repeated many times.
The author suggests that this book might be suitable for a Masters-level student. I'll give him that it reads like a textbook, but that doesn't HIDE the fact there is very little information here and what is here is nearly inaccessible due to the style of writing.
I finished this book because I though that it would get better at some point. It didn't. I've read hundreds of computer-related titles about software architecture, development methodologies, programming, and technology in general, and this is in the bottom 10%.
Rating: 5
Summary: The reality check
Comment: Davydov's book is exactly what our application development organization needed to ramp up its portal strategy. This book is a voice talking beyond the "silver-bullet" hype of all kinds of Internet technologies to the bigger picture. I'a a seasoned software engineer and project manager, and this book helped me to get a firm grasp on the problem/opportunity/goal before jumping down to the details.
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Title: e-Business 2.0: Roadmap for Success (2nd Edition) by Marcia Robinson, Don Tapscott, Ravi Kalakota ISBN: 0201721651 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Pub. Date: 15 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Corporate Portals: Revolutionizing Information Access to Increase Productivity and Drive the Bottom Line by Heidi Collins ISBN: 0814405932 Publisher: American Management Association Pub. Date: 11 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The E-Business Workplace: Discovering the Power of Enterprise Portals by Matthias Vering, Grant Norris, Peter Barth, James R. Hurley, Brenda Mackay, David J. Duray, Matthias Vering ISBN: 0471418307 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 23 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Enterprise Knowledge Portals by Heidi Collins ISBN: 0814407080 Publisher: American Management Association Pub. Date: 03 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Proven Portals: Best Practices for Planning, Designing, and Developing Enterprise Portals by Dan Sullivan ISBN: 0321125207 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Pub. Date: 19 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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