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ELC 200
DAY 8
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Agenda
• Assignment #3 Due Feb 8
• Syllabus Change– I will cover Chap 16 After Chap 7 instead of
after chapter 12– Allows students to begin work on eCommerce
Initiative Framework
• Today is a Discussion on Web Management Tools and Web Portals
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Assignment # 3
• On page 129 and 130 – Do the following questions from the Discussion
Questions Section– 1, 2, 3 & 7
• On Page 157 – Do the following questions from the Discussion
Questions Section– 1, 2, 4, & 6
• Turn in a well formatted Word Document• Due at the beginning of the next class
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Chapter 5Web Management Tools and
Web Portals
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Some Basic Questions • What is the non-technology fuel for eCommerce?
What makes it work besides computers and networks?– Information and Knowledge
• So how do you find it, get it, keep it, sort it, use it and give it out in a manner that is useful and productive to all the consumers and the producers of the information and knowledge?– The problem is called Knowledge Management and the
current solution is Portals
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Portals:The Basics
Portals are considered to be virtual workplaces that:
• Promote knowledge sharing among different categories of end users
• Provide access to stored structured data
• Organize unstructured data
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The Basics (cont’d)
Portals are tools that could:
• Simplify access to data stored in various application systems
• Facilitate collaboration among employees
• Assist the company in reaching its customers
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EVOLUTION OF PORTALS
• Search engines
• Navigation sites
• Portals evolved to include advanced search capabilities and taxonomies
• Good paper on knowledge portals– http://www.isoc.org/inet2000/cdproceedings/7d/7d_2.htm
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Evolution of the Portal Concept
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Difference between Knowledge and Information
• […] knowledge is based on personal experiences and cultural inheritance and fundamentally tacit. We use our knowledge to perform actions such as creating information. Although the knowledge required to create the information is interwoven with the information, the reader must still have knowledge similar to that of the creator to be able to interpret the information. The more overlapping that cultural background between the two, the easier the information is understood. Information is a vehicle for reflection that may, by informing the reader, expend or relocated his or her knowledge state. (p.9)
– Stenmark, D. (2002). Information vs. Knowledge: The Role of intranets in Knowledge Management. In Proceedings of HICSS-35, Hawaii, January 7-10, 2002
• http://w3.informatik.gu.se/~dixi/publ/ddoml02.pdf
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Knowledge Portals Versus Information Portals
Enterprise Information Portals
• Use both “push” and “pull” technologies to transmit information to users through a standardized Web-based interface
• Integrate disparate applications into a single system
• Have the ability to access both external and internal sources of data
Enterprise Knowledge Portals
• Are goal-directed toward knowledge production, knowledge acquisition,knowledge transmission, andknowledge management
• Are focused on enterprise business processes
• Provide, produce, and manage information about the validity of the information they supply
• Include all EIPs functionalities
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Business Challenges
• A move from product to customer centric organizations– Understand and predict Consumer behavior– Offer the right product at the right time for the right
price
• To optimize the performance of operational processes in order to reduce costs and enhance quality
• Companies need to commercialize their products at the lowest price possible
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Portals and Business Transformation
• The explosion of key business information captured in electronic documents
• The speed by which the quantity and kinds of content is growing
• Challenges:– Shorter time to market– Knowledge worker turnover– More demanding customers and investors
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Why Organizations Launch KM Programs
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The Benefits of Knowledge PortalsProductivity
Locating Documents
Collaboration
Better Decisions
Quality of Data
Sharing Knowledge
Identifying Experts
E-mail Traffic
Bandwidth Use
Time in Meetings
Phone Calls
Response Times
Redundant Efforts
Operating Costs
Time to market
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Knowledge Portals Components
• Content management
• Business intelligence
• Data warehouses and data mines
• Data management
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Portals Components
Source: http://www.alvea.com
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Knowledge Portal Technologies
• Gathering
• Categorization (taxonomy)
• Distribution
• Collaboration
• Publish (external to portal)
• Personalization
• Search/navigate
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Portal Features and Benefits
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Layers of The Portal Architecture for Microsoft
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Types of Collaborations
• Asynchronous collaboration – human-to-human interactions via computer
sub-systems having no time or space constraints. Queries, responses, or access occur anytime and anyplace
• Synchronous collaboration – computer-based, human-to-human interaction
that occurs immediately (within 5 seconds). It can use audio, video, or data technologies
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Another Distinction
• Push technology places information in a place where it is difficult to avoid seeing it
• Pull technologies require you to take specific actions to retrieve information
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Requirements for Successful Collaboration Tools
• Comfortable e-mail systems• A Web browser • Simple search functionalities • Collaboration services with a multipurpose database• Web services • Indexing services for full-text search of documents• Well-organized central storage locations
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Synchronous and Asynchronous Collaboration
Synchronous collaboration
• Teleconferencing– Advantages: personal, immediate
feedback– Disadvantages: expensive, often
does not work well across time zones
• Computer Video/ Teleconferencing– Computer-based teleconferencing
and video- conferencing is a rapidly evolving technology that has tremendous potential for distributed organizations
Asynchronous collaboration
• Electronic Mailing Lists– Advantages: cheap
– Disadvantages: limited communication medium
• Web-Based Discussion Forums– Advantages: same as electronic
mailing lists except requires slightly faster Internet connection
– Disadvantages: cultural resistance
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Synchronous and Asynchronous Collaboration
Synchronous collaboration
• Online Chat Forums– Allow multiple users to
communicate simultaneously by typing messages on a computer screen
Asynchronous collaboration
• Lotus Notes– Advantages: comprehensive
collaborative solution employing
state-of-the-art technologies for
communication, document management, and work flow
– Disadvantages: expensive to deploy when compared with other collaboration technologies
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The World Bank Case
• The World Bank spent a fortune on classifying knowledge
• The bank employs XML–enabled Oracle data engine to drive a document management system linked to LotusNotes groupware
• Codification of technologies needs to be evaluated in terms of a return on investment
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KM Architecture at the World Bank
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Intelligent Agents
• Intelligent agents are tools that can be applied in numerous ways in the context of EKPs
• Intelligent agents are still in their infancy
• Agents are software entities that are able to execute a wide range of functional tasks
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Intelligent Agents Services
• Customized customer assistance with online services
• Customer profiling based on business experiences• Integrating profiles of customers into a group of
marketing activities• Predicting customer requirements• Negotiating prices and payment schedules• Executing financial transactions on the customer’s
behalf
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New Trends in Portal Technologies
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Critical Issues for Knowledge-Sharing Programs
• Responsiveness to user need• Content structure in large systems• Content quality requirements• Integration with existing systems• Scalability• Hardware–software compatibility• Synchronization of technology with the
capabilities of users
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Portal Vendors
Vendor
KM PortalProduct
Feature Summary Best Uses
Lotus/IBM Lotus Raven 1.0 (in beta)
• Intelligent taxonomy
• QuickPlace collaboration tool
• Assigns value to data based on how often it is used
• Portal replication
• Facilitates content management
• Self-creating and refining taxonomies
• Personnel resources linked to data sources
• Advanced collaboration
• Easy portal repurposing
• Rapid application development with associated KM packages
Open Text MyLivelink Portal 1.0 with Livelink 8.5.1 KM software
• Integrated work flow
• Quick integration of features
• Quick portal deployment
• Integrated KM
• Document management and work flow
• Custom collaboration spaces (personal, project, or enterprise)
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Portal Vendors (cont’d)
Vendor KM PortalProduct
Feature Summary Best Uses
Plumtree Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.0
• Automatic population
• E-mail, voice, and wireless notification
• Integration with LDAP directories
• E-room tools
• Easy and extensive content and application integration
• Scalability
• Advanced security
• Trainable taxonomies
• Various data access
• Customization and extensibility
Woolamai WebMeta Engine 1.0
• Quick integration
• Flexible portal interface
• Knowledge taxonomy adapts to data views
• Data-mining functionality
• Web site statistics
• Usability
• Tracking site statistics
• Content streaming to wireless devices
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Chapter 5Web Management Tools and
Web Portals