Proven Portals: Best Practices for Planning, Designing, and Developing Enterprise Portals |
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| Title: | Proven Portals: Best Practices for Planning, Designing, and Developing Enterprise Portals |
| Author: | Dan Sullivan |
| Publisher: | Addison-Wesley Professional |
| Type: | Book / Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 20 September, 2003 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0321125207 / 9780321125200 |
| List Price: | $44.99 |
| You Save: | $5.67 |
| Amazon Price: | $39.32 |
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Product Description
Portals are the cornerstone to success in making informed business decisions and in the move to the Internet economy. They unify access to all the business content your employees, trading partners and customers need to do their jobs: Web data, workgroup information, business intelligence, front- and back-office applications, expertise and even data in legacy systems. Portals improve ROI through improved collaboration and communication, smarter decision-making, increased productivity, and easier access to business information, applications and expertise. In summary a portal brings together different applications, content and services in the form of one user interface, a Web page.
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Customer Reviews:
• Proven Portals - Practical And Balanced
11 December, 2003
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!
- Amazon Customer Review
• Proven Portals Review
03 August, 2006
The content is very good, but it would be better if the book includes pictures, samples and draws with color.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Jack Of All Trades, Master Of...none
31 March, 2004
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.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Vendor Independent Portal Information
04 June, 2004
This book presents practical portal design principles in a vendor independent manner, emphasizing business process, ease of use, and deep integration of applications. Deploying a portal so "users check their email from the web or read the latest company press release" is not enough! The common goal is enterprise wide integration. The chapter on Return of Investment (ROI) presents how to make the ROI calculation and more importantly emphasizes business justification of the portal. This book uses a three-tier architecture of presentation, application server, and enterprise information service. The case studies presented and associated best practices were all useful but perhaps I would have enjoyed some examples of failures.. there must be a lot out there! Data warehouse architecture is a huge topic (see for example books by Ralph Kimball), but this book introduces how portals can be delivery vehicle for "business intelligence" reporting (through ad hoc query tools, dashboards, and visualizations tools). Sullivan also discusses e-commerce portals, collaboration portals, and portals with unstructured and "tacit knowledge". He describes how metadata management can help in search for unstructured documents and applications. The final chapter on implementing your own portal is weak for planning purposes, but books like Moss and Arte "Business Intelligence Roadmap" offer more planning details.
- Amazon Customer Review
• An Explanation Of Portals At The Level Of Managers
06 October, 2004
A portal is a way to electronically access the fundamental information concerning your business, most commonly over the Internet. Therefore, an enterprise portal is one that can be used to access all public business operations. Since it is designed to perform all business functions, it is much more than a set of hyperlinked web pages. To start with, there must be some overlying consistency to the display of the pages, independent of what operations they provide the user. The links between the pages must also make sense, in that while there is a sequence of pages to follow, a way to jump to key initial pages in logical sequences is available.
Beyond the presentation issues, the following must also be considered:
*) The order in the way the supporting database(s) is accessed and organized.
*) The integrity of the data must be maintained.
*) The cost of the portal must be justified using an understandable return on investment (ROI) analysis.
All of these features are handled in this book, which is written at the technical level of the manager. In that vein, the most significant chapter is number five, "Measuring Portal Return on Investment: A Crash Course." The days when one could justify an Internet presence by simply stating something like, "It is the new way of business" are long gone. IT budgets are still tight and everything needs to be subjected to a thorough ROI analysis. The techniques to do that described in this book will sharpen your skills as you try to put specific dollar values on something where not all values are clearly delimited and specified. For many managers, that chapter alone justifies the purchase of the book.
The rest of the book deals with general design issues, such as a three-tiered architecture. Tier 1 is the presentation layer, what the user sees on their screen. Tier 2 is the application server layer, or the functionality that serves the specific application(s) being used by the client. Tier 3 is the enterprise information services layer, where the application server layer interacts with the remainder of the organization's information infrastructure. This is a sensible approach for many reasons, and a solid overview of those reasons is given.
The second half of the book covers the different types of portals and the common themes shared by those that are effective. Not a great deal of technical detail, but enough so that a manager can intelligently converse about the subject. As someone who is technically literate, I found the bulk of the material routine. However, for the manager trying to make an informed decision about their company's portal design and justification, the book is perfect.
- Amazon Customer Review
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