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Semantics in Business Systems: The Savvy Manager's Guide (The Savvy Manager's Guides)BUY FROM AMAZON.COM
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Usually ships in 24 hours  (10 customer reviews)RRP: Buy New: $33.90 You Save: $14.05 (29%) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours EDITORIAL REVIEWSemantics in Business Systems begins with a description of what semantics are and how they affect business systems. It examines four main aspects of the application of semantics to systems, specifically: How do we infer meaning from unstructured information, how do application systems make meaning as they operate, how do practitioners uncover meaning in business settings, and how do we understand and communicate what we have deduced? This book illustrates how this applies to the future of application system development, especially how it informs and affects Web services and business rule- based approaches, and how semantics will play out with XML and the semantic Web. The book also contains a quick reference guide to related terms and technologies. It is part of Morgan Kaufmann's series of Savvy Manager's Guides. * Presents an easy and enjoyable introduction to semantics in the context of business IT systems. * Articulates the business value of semantics, while providing relevant introductory technical background. * Describes the semantic underpinnings of data modeling, business rules, enterprise integration, and Web services. * Contains a handy quick-reference guide to technologies and terminology. * For more information, links, and discussions, go to www.savvymanagers.com. PRODUCT DETAILSPublisher: Morgan KaufmannPub. Date: 10th September 2003 Catalog: Book Media: Paperback Number Of Pages: 397 Ean: 9781558609174 Isbn: 1558609172 ABOUT THIS BOOKUSER REVIEWS
Highly recommended. I rather liked this book, learned from it, and even quoted it. Insightful & well organized. Best book I've read in this general subject area. Should replace most of the fluffy business strategy books I've been suckered into buying.
McComb explains a challenging idea of semantics and why this matters in business. He shows that it can be a vital way to efficiently encode your business's rules in a framework of Web Services and servers. This involves understanding different approaches to encoding these rules. Procedural, declarative (like SQL), model based and rule based. The book goes into how XML is the base standard of representing data or rules in a Web Service context. It takes a lot of the mystery and hype out of what Web Services are or could be. A sober counterpoint to much speculation elsewhere. But one that still clearly shows its potential.
I bought this book based on the "5 star" reviews out here - unfortunately after seeing it, I am having to send it back. It covers some *very* basic stuff. Not at all useful.
This book does a tremendous job of covering some important issues -- rarely does a technical author provide comprehensive analysis of the role of semantics. McComb addresses high-level issues while also providing solid, hands-on, specific information. Having myself been involved in complex integration projects, it's refreshing to see someone discussing the problem (and potential business value) of getting meaning out of unstructured information -- without promoting a particular technology. Even more impressive is that he does this using an extremely readable style.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I was skeptical that the book would be relevant to a small company's projects, but I got lots of good ideas that we can start implementing right away. Because the world of the semantic web is still so new, even our small company has a chance to contribute to a lot of the ontologies that will be used in our industry for years to come. SIMILAR ITEMS:
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