XML: eCommerce Solutions for Business and IT Managers
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (694 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0071371885 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 259 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Well worth reading. Especially if you're in the IT field or seeking to break into it (lots of interview fodder here). Most books start with the differences between XML and HTML, how to create a valid XML document, intro the DTD, etc. Simon explains why we need XML! In clear, concise, readable prose, the author explains XML's practical applications. He does an admirable job of conveying XML's importance in terms of ecommerce and B2B applications.. "The worst tech book I've ever read" according to Maynard Handley. and I've read quite a few. At least the authors of "HTML for dummies" or whatever don't imagine that they are genuises setting the world on fire.This book is pretentious, repetitious, phenomenally boring, and completely useless. It consists of little but vacuous management-speak sentences. For example what is one to make of"A process is something that someone wants to accomplish, including the flow of actions from start to completion"? In the world of normal people, a process is a means to an end, not an end in itself. But the book is riddled with this sort of meaningless juxtaposition of jargon.There is no . Excellent Perspective of the Technology Solomon H. Simon If you want a look at XML, but don't want the development details, this is the book to add to your collection.This book discusses many case studies to put the XML technology into a practical perspective. Some of the business apllications described in the book include databases, EDI, and new markup languages, as well as E-business.After reading this book, you will understand XML from a corporate context and you will be better equipped to make decisions about the technology.
. Simon managed an R&D Department to introduce advanced information technologies into the company. He has authored 70-articles on science and technology to trade magazines and referred journals. He also consulted with Texas Instruments to build a corporate-wide Internet plan, and developed and implemented an R&D thrust leading the implementation of a global expert system to support a very large online database se
I meet with people everyday who want to understand the business advantages of the latest and greatest new technologies. From the Author The blending of technical and business perspectives will help engineers, technical gurus, and programmers to explain the importance of XML, in business terms, to their management and to their customers. These folks may be corporate executives who want to improve the business or they may be IT managers who want to discuss their technologies in terms that executives can understand. The manager who wants to understand the difference between XML, HTML, and other markup languages will enjoy information, the style, and the subtle humor. - Hank Simon . One friend, a top manager of a technical company, was reading the hype and asked me bluntly, ‘What's XML good for?’ This book answer
This text provides an insight into the rapid changes occuring in the business environment. It assumes all businesses will use XML in the future and so business managers will have to know the ins and outs of how to use and conduct business in this format.. XML facilitates the ability to share information and data using a common format. This means that different parts of information can be accessed and used in many different ways without the need to change the way that information is processed