Integrated Solutions with DB2

Foreword by Chris Wicher/Vice President of Integration, IBM Coroporation

• Use DB2 to enhance productivity, customer service, and trading relationships-and cutcosts
• Learn how to exploit technology for the development of complex solutions using patterns andbest practices
• Understand how DB2, Web services, and messaging infrastructure fit together
• Leverage DB2 in business intelligence, e-commerce, CRM, pervasive computing, enterpriseapplication integration, and beyond
• For every DB2 database developer, architect, designer, and manager

IBM's DB2 database platform is the foundation for an extraordinary array of highly integrated business solutions, ranging from advanced business intelligence and e-commerce toB2B integration and state-of-the-art pervasive computing.

Now, two leading IBM solution architects show you how to use DB2 to create flexible infrastructures that simplify the construction of any enterprise-class business solution. Learn how to seamlessly integrate DB2, Web servers, development tools, messaging infrastructure, and other crucial technologies. Then build, step by step, five specific solutions chosen to address the core challenges facing today's enterprise. Along the way you'll learn how to use DB2 to improve productivity and customer service, reduce operating costs, strengthen key trading relationships, and more.

• Leveraging the IBM Patterns for e-business to accelerate the delivery of integrated,Web-enabled solutions
• Using DB2, WebSphere, and related technologies to integrate applications, information, andportals
• Exploiting business integration technologies to bring together people, processes, andinformation to create a cohesive solution
• Creating automated CRM email systems with trigger-induced DB2 UDFs, JavaMail, andJAF
• Building high-value mobile and pervasive applications with DB2 Everyplace and DB2 SpatialExtender (SE)
• Delivering dynamic Web services and eSourcing solutions with DB2 XML Extender
• Architecting and building highly personalized e-commerce systems with DB2 technologies

If you're ready to leverage the full business value of IBM's DB2 platform, you're ready for Integrated Solutions with DB2.

Contents

• DB2 in Solutions Integration
• Web Application Server
• Solutions Development: Trends, Technology, and Tooling
• Business Integration
• CRM: Email Outreach using DB2
• Dynamic Business: B2B and B2C
• Pervasive Computing and DB2
• e-Commerce
• Business Intelligence
• The Conclusion

• Appendix A: Document Access Definition Extension File
• Appendix B: Distance Conversion User-Defined Function
• Glossary
• Index