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Title: Proven Portals: Best Practices for Planning, Designing, and Developing Enterprise Portals by Dan Sullivan ISBN: 0-321-12520-7 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 19 September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Hits All the Main Issues
Comment: Excellent management level discussion of what is involved in making an enterprise portal. Sullivan focuses on the salient issues, without getting bogged down in arguments over technical choices. Like do we use IBM's dB2 or Oracle? Do we use a J2EE or .NET environment? While these are important concerns, the basic design concepts are at a higher level, and are addressed in the book.
A substantial portion of which is devoted to searching. Not surprising, because a commonality across most portals in aggregating information that can be searched. Why not just use Google for this portion of the portal, you might ask? Well, Google indexes the public Web. Most corporate portals also, and hopefully more germanely, can access internal corporate documents, including email, that the outside world cannot reach.
But this leads into something which you should be aware of if you find yourself designing searches for your portal. Google sells a piece of hardware that sits inside your firewall. It can index and search your internal data, and present the results in a similar fashion to what it does for the Web. Sullivan does not mention this, because he is not plugging any particular vendor. Fair enough. So let me mention it. Because it is useful to know of this option, since it offers a quick, easy implementation of internal search on your portal.
Rating: 1
Summary: Jack of all trades, master of...none
Comment: To call this book "best practices" does the reader a disservice. The author's glossing over of Earned value (e.g., ROI) leaves the reader with an incomplete picture of how to compute these values. If this is your first/only source of information then when you try to give those numbers to your CFO, she will BURN you. Do yourself a favor and pick up another book on Earned Value and actually _learn_ how it is calculated, rather than relying on the poor presentation here.
Another juicy tip you're dying to find out: "Most portals have three-part layout" Oh really? Try again, Timmy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Proven Portals - practical and balanced
Comment: Proven Portals gives a practical and balanced view of the subject matter. It should be required reading for those embarking on a Portal implementation or trying to rescue a failed one. The book provides concepts and best practices that are valid regardless of the technical infrastructure. You'll need greater detail in some areas for your implementation, and the author provides references for a more in-depth treatment of many issues. The book is an amazingly easy read for as much ground as it covers. I can't wait for Proven Data Warehouses!
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Title: Enterprise Knowledge Portals by Heidi Collins ISBN: 0814407080 Publisher: AMACOM Pub. Date: 03 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Realizing the Promise of Corporate Portals : Leveraging Knowledge for Business Success by José Claudio Terra, Cindy Gordon ISBN: 0750675934 Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Pub. Date: 11 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Enterprise Portals by Berthold Kastel ISBN: 0974180807 Publisher: Competative Edge International Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Corporate Portals: Revolutionizing Information Access to Increase Productivity and Drive the Bottom Line by Heidi Collins ISBN: 0814405932 Publisher: AMACOM Pub. Date: 11 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Designing Portals: Opportunities and Challenges by Ali Jafair, Mark Sheehan, Ali Jafari, Vikram Bhatia ISBN: 1931777845 Publisher: IRM Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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