Corporate portals and e-business integration

"An extremely practical book that can be used as a basis for establishing and operating e-business functions successfully. Marks extensive practical experience and ability to understand, and explain, both the big picture of technology and business integration in the new Internet-based environment, as well as his obvious in-depth knowledge of the underlying technical issues, are truly on display in this book. A great source of information for anyone involved in the area of e-business, from a management, technology and business perspective."

-Michael T. Wise, Senior Vice President, e-Commerce Technology, Bank of America

"Corporate Portals and e-Business Integration offers keen business and technology insight into the use of corporate portals as a means of customer, supplier, and employee interaction. This book makes e-business more tangible and its related technologies more understandable to executives and investors grappling with the intense pace of change in the space."

-Gretchen Teagarden, Director Enterprise Software Equity Research, Salomon Smith Barney

"This book offers a high-level overview of the strategies necessary to achieve the authors vision of optimal use of the Web as a plat- form for developing portals through which organizations can unify information dissemination and integrated support services. Geared to providing management with an overview of the opportunities inherent in corporate portals, and the issues that must be addressed to implement them effectively, Corporate Portals and e-Business Integration covers a wide swath of intellectual territory.""

-Tom Spitzer, ,VP of Product Management, EC Wise, Inc.

Contents

• Chapter 1 : Leading-Edge e-Business Solutions and strategies
• Chapter 2 : Stratégic technology Blueprint for e-Business
• Chapter 3 : Developing e-Business functions
• Chapter 4 : E-Business and Application Integration
• Chapter 5 : The Portal
• Chapter 6 : The Corporate Portal Framework
• Chapter 7 : The State of Corporate Portal Technology
• Chapter 8 : Implementing the Corporate Portal Framework
• Chapter 9 : Challenges for the Future