Foreword |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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Corporate Portals: What, Why, and When? |
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What are corporate portals? |
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4 | (15) |
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Why do you need a corporate portal? |
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19 | (9) |
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When should you implement a corporate portal? |
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28 | (3) |
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What have others done with portals? |
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31 | (2) |
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What do you have to lose? |
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33 | (1) |
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34 | (1) |
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Why have people procrastinated? |
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35 | (2) |
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Q&A---A time to recap and reflect |
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37 | (4) |
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41 | (38) |
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``Public'' versus corporate portals |
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45 | (5) |
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Types of corporate portals |
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50 | (5) |
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Partitioning a corporate portal |
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55 | (7) |
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62 | (3) |
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65 | (4) |
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69 | (3) |
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72 | (2) |
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Q&A---A time to recap and reflect |
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74 | (5) |
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Architectures and Technologies |
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79 | (36) |
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An overall architecture for corporate portals |
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83 | (6) |
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Portal-facilitating techniques: Portlets, gadgets, and Web parts |
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89 | (7) |
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A corporate portal relative to the rest of IT |
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96 | (5) |
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Integrating data-center resources |
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101 | (6) |
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Putting portals on a platform |
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107 | (4) |
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Q&A---A time to recap and reflect |
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111 | (4) |
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Security, Scalability, and Speed |
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115 | (38) |
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Trying to put locks on corporate portals |
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118 | (23) |
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Capacity planning for a corporate portal |
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141 | (3) |
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Factors that influence speed |
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144 | (3) |
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147 | (2) |
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Q&A---A time to recap and reflect |
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149 | (4) |
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Managing and Monitoring Corporate Portals |
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153 | (30) |
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158 | (7) |
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Keeping on top of usage patterns and statistics |
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165 | (2) |
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Enhancing reliability, resilience, and availability |
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167 | (6) |
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173 | (3) |
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Managing and monitoring corporate portals |
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176 | (2) |
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Q&A---A time to recap and reflect |
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178 | (5) |
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183 | (32) |
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Enterprise resource planning |
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191 | (7) |
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Contemporary knowledge management |
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198 | (5) |
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Data collection for knowledge management |
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203 | (4) |
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207 | (2) |
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209 | (2) |
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KM information dissemination and collaboration |
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211 | (1) |
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Q&A---A time to recap and reflect |
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212 | (3) |
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Supply-Chain and Customer Relationship Management |
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215 | (30) |
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Supply-chain management using portals |
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220 | (7) |
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Supplier relationship management via portals |
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227 | (4) |
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Customer relationship management via portals |
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231 | (3) |
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Synthesizing all of the portal-related applications |
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234 | (5) |
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Other pertinent portal-related applications |
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239 | (2) |
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Q&A---A time to recap and reflect |
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241 | (4) |
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245 | (28) |
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The scoop on Web services |
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249 | (5) |
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254 | (9) |
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263 | (4) |
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267 | (1) |
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268 | (2) |
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Q&A---A time to recap and reflect |
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270 | (3) |
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Living and Breathing Portals |
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273 | (12) |
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Laying the costs down for a corporate portal |
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276 | (3) |
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279 | (1) |
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280 | (1) |
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Q&A---A final chance to recap and reflect |
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281 | (4) |
Selected Glossary |
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285 | (8) |
Acronyms |
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293 | (6) |
Bibliography |
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299 | (2) |
Index |
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301 | (12) |
About the Author |
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