Corporate Portals and eBusiness Integration

by Mark M. Davydov

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 *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 strategy

268 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001