This book will help you look at database design and construction in a new way. It highlights some of the reasons existing database technology cannot cope with semistructured data from different sources, and shows how the use of XML and new database architecture can solve these constraints. You won't finish this book having all the answers. You will, however, have a broader understanding of the issues involved. Portals are the buzzword of the year.
Internet portals guide millions of users to their desired Web site.
Corporate portals are designed to guide your internal users through the masses of data within your enterprise, and to gain new knowledge from combining and analyzing previously separate data. This hefty book aims to guide you through the entire process. The first part of the book focuses on the business and strategic planning required to create a successful portal. There is a set methodology involved in this planning, which the authors have discovered through the implementation of several portal projects. This section is useful for those just starting out, but it is easy to get confused by the plethora of acronyms.