| |
| |
Foreword | |
| |
| |
Acknowledgments | |
| |
| |
Permissions | |
| |
| |
Introduction | |
| |
| |
Enterprise Portal Design | |
| |
| |
Enterprise Portal Concepts | |
| |
| |
What Is Metadata? | |
| |
| |
What Is XML? | |
| |
| |
How Is Metadata Used with XML? | |
| |
| |
The Impact of Technology | |
| |
| |
Fundamental Concepts | |
| |
| |
The Engineering Enterprise Portals (EEP) Methodology | |
| |
| |
Strategic Business Planning: Designing Tomorrow, Today | |
| |
| |
Goal Analysis in Business Planning | |
| |
| |
An Example of Goal Analysis | |
| |
| |
The Quality of Planning Statements | |
| |
| |
The Steps of Goal Analysis | |
| |
| |
Benefits of Goal Analysis | |
| |
| |
Goal Analysis for Project Specifications | |
| |
| |
Data Modeling: A Window into the Enterprise | |
| |
| |
The Importance of Maps | |
| |
| |
Information for Decision Making | |
| |
| |
The Data Modeling Phase | |
| |
| |
Data Modeling Concepts | |
| |
| |
Data Entity Types | |
| |
| |
Associations Represent Strategies | |
| |
| |
Strategic Modeling: A Map for the Future | |
| |
| |
XYZ Strategic Plan | |
| |
| |
The Need for Feedback to Management | |
| |
| |
Facilitated Modeling Session for the Strategic Data Model | |
| |
| |
Identification of Information Needs for the Data Warehouse | |
| |
| |
Development of Data Mart, Data Warehouse, and-EP Project Maps | |
| |
| |
Project Maps from Real-Life Projects | |
| |
| |
Engineering Enterprise Portals: Implementing Decision Early Warning | |
| |
| |
EEP Framework Motivation | |
| |
| |
Decision Early Warning Principles | |
| |
| |
Decision Early Warning and Enterprise Portals | |
| |
| |
Engineering Enterprise Portals Framework | |
| |
| |
Framework Application Example: Where Next? | |
| |
| |
Enterprise Portal Development | |
| |
| |
Metadata Analysis Dimensions | |
| |
| |
Enterprise Portal as Organizational Knowledge Management | |
| |
| |
What Is Metadata? | |
| |
| |
How Does System Metadata Differ from Traditional System Information? | |
| |
| |
System Metadata Breadth | |
| |
| |
System Metadata Integration | |
| |
| |
System Metadata Deployment | |
| |
| |
System Metadata Uses/Users | |
| |
| |
System Metadata Engineering | |
| |
| |
Metadata Engineering Activities | |
| |
| |
Enterprise Portal Engineering and Reverse Engineering | |
| |
| |
Metadata Engineering Activity Cycle | |
| |
| |
Metadata Types | |
| |
| |
System Metadata Types | |
| |
| |
Reverse Engineering Analysis Decomposition | |
| |
| |
Conceptual Structure Decomposition | |
| |
| |
Contextual Extensions Decomposition | |
| |
| |
Metadata Quality | |
| |
| |
What is Perfect Enterprise Portal Data? | |
| |
| |
Enterprise Portal Quality Dimensions and Attributes | |
| |
| |
The Enterprise Portal Data Life Cycle | |
| |
| |
Enterprise Portal Data Life-Cycle Products | |
| |
| |
Metadata Project Example | |
| |
| |
Sales Enterprise Portal (SEP) Project Characteristics | |
| |
| |
Sales Enterprise Portal Architecture | |
| |
| |
Data Reverse Engineering Plan | |
| |
| |
Data Reverse Engineer S1 and S2 | |
| |
| |
The Project Budget | |
| |
| |
Metadata Capture Plan | |
| |
| |
Observations | |
| |
| |
Enterprise Portal Deployment | |
| |
| |
The Internet and XML: The Future of Metadata | |
| |
| |
Transformations of the 1990s | |
| |
| |
A Simple XML Example | |
| |
| |
XML Elements, Attributes, and Entities | |
| |
| |
Extensible Style Language (XSL) | |
| |
| |
Document Object Model (DOM) | |
| |
| |
Extensible Linking Language (XLL) | |
| |
| |
Resource Description Framework (RDF) | |
| |
| |
XML Resolves Many HTML Problems | |
| |
| |
When to Use Elements, Attributes, or Entities | |
| |
| |
Using XML as a Business Reengineering Technology | |
| |
| |
The Problems of Change | |
| |
| |
Business Reengineering for the Second Era | |
| |
| |
Identifying Business Processes from Data Models | |
| |
| |
The Status of Internet and Intranet Technologies | |
| |
| |
Business Reengineering and the Internet | |
| |
| |
Enterprise Portals and Reengineering Technologies | |
| |
| |
Two "Flavors" of Reengineering | |
| |
| |
Enterprise Portals for Legacy System Reengineering Deployment | |
| |
| |
Enterprise Portals for Business Reengineering Solution Deployment | |
| |
| |
Integrated Systems and Business Reengineering | |
| |
| |
Integrated Business and Systems Reengineering (IBSR) | |
| |
| |
Repository Metadata Development | |
| |
| |
Implementing Organizational Quality Initiatives | |
| |
| |
Data Quality Problem Characteristics | |
| |
| |
Data Quality Project Example | |
| |
| |
Building Quality into Data | |
| |
| |
Results: Enterprise Portal Solutions to Data Quality Problems | |
| |
| |
The Central Role of Enterprise Portals | |
| |
| |
Typical XML Applications | |
| |
| |
Internet-Based Knowledge Resources | |
| |
| |
Evolution of Data Warehouses to Enterprise Portals | |
| |
| |
The Future of Enterprise Portals | |
| |
| |
Index | |