Web Warehousing and Knowledge Management

by Mattison, Rob

• ISBN13: 9780070411036
• ISBN10: 0070411034
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

Designed to help you discover the key to harness- ing new approaches to business systems develop- ment. A one of a kind, straightforward problem- solving guide. Softcover. DLC: Data warehousing.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	xvii
PART 1 APPLIED KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT	1	(130)
Web Warehousing and Knowledge Management	3	(34)
Introducing Web Warehousing	4	(4)
Web Warehousing: A Formal Definition	8	(2)
Future Systems Profiles	10	(2)
Web Warehousing Business Applications	12	(3)
Web Warehousing for Consumers	15	(1)
Web Warehousing: A Compelling Technology Story	16	(1)
An Introduction to Knowledge Management	17	(4)
What Is Knowledge Management?	21	(2)
What Is Knowledge Management Theory?	23	(1)
What Are the Knowledge Management Principles?	23	(3)
Application of Knowledge Management Principles to the Consumer World	26	(1)
In Pursuit of a Definition of Knowledge	26	(1)
Knowledge Management and Computers	27	(4)
What Are Knowledge Management Systems?	31	(5)
Databases, Data Warehouses, and Knowledge Bases	36	(1)
From Edison to Berners-Lee	37	(24)
A Revolution with a Cost	38	(1)
Your First Web Warehousing Project Will Be a Failure!	38	(2)
The New Technology Assimilation Process	40	(14)
The Role of Knowledge Management in the Future	54	(1)
Knowledge Management for Corporate I/T Departments	54	(3)
Major Planning Implications	57	(2)
The Future of Knowledge Management	59	(2)
Value Chains and Killer Applications	61	(24)
Corporate Strategic Perspectives	62	(5)
Understanding Business in Its Most Basic Form	67	(5)
Introducing the Value Chain	72	(3)
Telecommunications Example	75	(2)
Value Chain Implementation---Key to Corporate Differentiation	77	(1)
A High-Volume, Low-Cost Retailer	78	(1)
The Value Chain and Killer Applications	79	(1)
Value Chains and Knowledge Management	80	(2)
Value Chain Alignment Issues	82	(3)
Modeling, Visioning, and Value Propositions	85	(22)
Too Much Technology, Too Little Time	86	(1)
Principal Challenges to Web Warehouse Solution Selection	87	(4)
Value Propositions	91	(4)
The Nature of the Value That Systems Deliver	95	(1)
Turning Potential into Realization: The Role of Models and Visioning	96	(3)
What Is a Model?	99	(3)
Visioning	102	(3)
Conclusions	105	(2)
Knowledge Networks, Neighborhoods, and Economics	107	(24)
Definition of Terms	108	(5)
Cultural Shift and New Technology Assimilation	113	(4)
Knowledge Exchange, New Technologies, and Their Role in History	117	(3)
Knowledge Exchange, New Technologies, and Their Role in Business	120	(1)
The Right to Knowledge---Special Consequences for Business	121	(1)
Your Right to Knowledge Defines Your Economic Worth	122	(1)
The Hard Economics of Knowledge Exchange	122	(5)
Secondary Cultural Conflicts	127	(1)
Knowledge Management Consequences for the Systems Development Life Cycle	127	(4)
PART 2 WEB WAREHOUSING IN ACTION	131	(240)
Traditional Warehousing	133	(34)
Introduction	134	(1)
The Theory of Data Warehousing	134	(4)
What Is a Data Warehouse?	138	(2)
Barriers to Successful Data Warehousing	140	(6)
Really Bad Data Warehousing Approaches	146	(2)
Data Warehousing Approaches That Work	148	(5)
The Data Warehouse (Mart) Functional Model	153	(9)
The Layers of a Warehouse Environment	162	(3)
Conclusion	165	(2)
Web-Based Query and Reporting	167	(30)
Delivering Information over the Web	168	(6)
Example: Global Sports	174	(22)
Conclusion	196	(1)
Web OLAP	197	(24)
The World of OLAP Reporting	198	(7)
OLAP Architecture and Performance Problems	205	(7)
Aperio from Influence Software	212	(7)
Conclusion	219	(2)
Web-Based Statistical Analysis and Data Mining	221	(26)
The Analytical Tools	222	(1)
Business Value from Analytical Tools	223	(5)
Statistical Products Overview	228	(1)
Data Discovery Tools Overview	229	(3)
Comparison of the Products	232	(2)
Architectural Approaches for Statistical and Data Discovery Tools	234	(1)
The Intelligent Miner for Relationship Marketing Product (IBM)	235	(1)
Organization and Use of the IM for RM Product	236	(8)
Architecture of the IM for RM Product	244	(1)
Conclusion	245	(2)
Web-Based Graphical and Geographic Information Systems	247	(20)
Graphical Information Systems	248	(1)
Types of Graphical Information Systems	249	(9)
The Autodesk Geographic Information System	258	(4)
Starting the Autodesk MapGuide Displays	262	(3)
Conclusion	265	(2)
An Introduction to Text Information Management Systems	267	(22)
The Potentials and the Pitfalls of Textual Management	268	(4)
Getting Business Benefit from Text Information Management Systems	272	(2)
Areas Where Text Management Systems Have Already Delivered Big Business	274	(5)
The History of Textual Information Management	279	(9)
Conclusion	288	(1)
Architecture of Text Information Management Systems	289	(18)
Text Management Systems Review	290	(1)
Major Categories of TIMSs	291	(11)
Functional Components of a TIMS	302	(4)
Conclusion	306	(1)
Search Engines and Facilities	307	(30)
Search Engines and the Web	308	(1)
Search Engine Architecture	309	(2)
Variations in the Way That Search Facilities Work	311	(5)
Variations in Indexing Schemes	316	(7)
The Excalibur RetrievalWare Product	323	(1)
Excalibur RetrievalWare---Product Organization	324	(8)
Excalibur Screen Examples	332	(2)
The Excalibur RetrievalWare Report Card	334	(1)
Conclusion	335	(2)
Text Mining Systems	337	(18)
Text Mining---An Introduction	338	(3)
IBM Text Mining Product Offerings	341	(1)
Business Applications Making Use of Text Mining Products	342	(1)
IBM Customer Relationship Intelligence Product---Text Mining in Action	343	(4)
Using the IBM Intelligent Miner for Text	347	(7)
Conclusion	354	(1)
Multimedia Information Management Systems	355	(16)
Defining Multimedia Information Management Systems	356	(7)
The Excalibur Visual RetrievalWare Product	363	(1)
Components of the Visual RetrievalWare SDK	364	(2)
Practical Applications of the Visual RetrievalWare SDK	366	(2)
Conclusion	368	(3)
PART 3 TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATIONS	371	(170)
The Internet and Internet Services	373	(34)
Introduction	374	(1)
The History and Taxonomy of the Internet	374	(9)
URL: Uniform Resource Locator	383	(1)
Hooking Up to the Internet	384	(5)
Internet Services	389	(17)
Conclusion	406	(1)
Web Components and Communications	407	(26)
Web Architecture Review	408	(3)
Understanding HTML	411	(16)
The Stateless Web	427	(2)
Browser-Server Communication in Depth	429	(4)
PPP and CGI: Database Access to the Web	433	(26)
Delivering Traditional Data over the Web	434	(1)
The PPP Approach	435	(3)
The CGI Approach	438	(1)
The Basic CGI-Based Architecture	439	(1)
Input with CGI	440	(6)
Communication within the CGI Environment	446	(5)
Processing under CGI	451	(6)
Conclusion	457	(2)
Java: The Alternative Approach to Web Programming	459	(26)
An Introduction to Java	460	(5)
The Java Runtime Environment	465	(9)
Components of the Java Language	474	(6)
A Closer Look at Some Critical Extension APls	480	(3)
Conclusion	483	(2)
JDBC: Accessing Databases with Java	485	(28)
JDBC	486	(5)
Programming with JDBC	491	(7)
JDBC Working with Specific Databases	498	(7)
The Next Generation of Web Technology	505	(6)
Conclusion	511	(2)
Architecture, Performance, and Management	513	(28)
Web Warehousing Topology	514	(4)
Capacity Planning, Performance Tuning, and Troubleshooting	518	(3)
Step-by-Step Guide to Capacity Planning	521	(10)
A Step-by-Step Guide to Performance Trouble-shooting	531	(8)
Conclusion	539	(2)
Appendix	541	(4)
Glossary	545	(18)
Index	563