Corporate Portals and Ebusiness Integration

• Authors: Mark M. Davydov
• Venue: Corporate Portals and Ebusiness Integration
• Year: 2001

From the Publisher:Give customers,clients,and coworkers easier access to your organization's information and services The e-business environment is a tangle of disconnected and often incompatible data sources and applications. Today's hottest business tools — corporate portals—make it easier to navigate that maze. Corporate Portals and e-Business Integration explains what portals are,and how you can seamlessly integrate them into your corporation's e-business infrastructure. You learn about integration techniques developed at companies such as Dell,Cisco,and Broderbund Software. Like these leading-edge firms,you can apply corporate portals to cut costs,improve business intelligence,enhance Internet access,increase security,provide better,faster customer service online,and more. Look to this concise-yet-comprehensive guide to determine how to: *Better understand —and manage—the e-business needs of every user *Provide better,faster online customer service while increasing on-line security *Structure your technologies to fully exploit the world of e-business opportunities *Transform your organization — and establish a strong,flexible,and progressive e-business strategyAll About Corporate Portals and Why e-Business Leaders like Dell,Cisco,and Broderbund Software Consider Them EssentialThe e-business environment is a tangle of disconnected and often incompatible data sources and applications. Today's hottest business tools corporate portals make it easier to navigate that maze and to provide your customers,clients,and coworkers with easier access to every aspect of your organization's information and services. But what exactly are portals,andhow can you seamlessly integrate them into your corporation's e-business infrastructure?Corporate Portals and e-Business Integration provides a clear,"no-code" guide to understanding and employing portal technologies in your corporation. Look to this concise-yet-comprehensive guide to determine how your organization can use portals to: Better understand and manage the e-business needs of every userProvide better,faster online customer service while increasing on-line securityStructure your technologies to fully exploit the world of e-business opportunities Successful management in today's fast-moving e-business environment doesn't require you to know how to accomplish every task; it does,however,require you to know what tools are critical and why. Let Corporate Portals and e-Business Integration take you beyond the technical capabilities and requirements of portal technology to describe how it can transform your organization and establish a strong,flexible,and progressive e-business strategy.