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- Document Engineering: Analyzing and Designing Documents for Business Informatics & Web Services
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Document Engineering: Analyzing and Designing Documents for Business Informatics & Web Services
Much of the business transacted on the Web today takes place through information exchanges made possible by using documents as interfaces. For example, what seems to be a simple purchase from an online bookstore actually involves at least three different business collaborationsbetween the customer and the online catalog to select a book; between the bookstore and a credit card authorization service to verify and charge the customer's account; and between the bookstore and the delivery service with instructions for picking up and delivering the book to the customer. Document engineering is needed to analyze, design, and implement these Internet information exchanges. This book is an introduction to the emerging field of document engineering.
The authors, both leaders in the development of document engineering and other e-commerce initiatives, analyze document exchanges from a variety of perspectives. Taking a qualitative view, they look at patterns of document exchanges as components of business models; looking at documents in more detail, they describe techniques for analyzing individual transaction patterns and the role they play in the overall business process. They describe techniques for analyzing, designing, and encoding document models, including XML, and discuss the techniques and architectures that make XML a unifying technology for the next generation of e-business applications. Finally, they go beyond document models to consider management and strategic issuesthe business model, or the vision, that the information exchanged in these documents serves.
- ISBN-100262572451
- ISBN-13978-0262572453
- PublisherMit Pr
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 2008
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions7 x 1 x 8.75 inches
- Print length703 pages
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Tim McGrath is an independent consultant and is Chair of the Universal Business Language Library Content Subcommittee. With collaborator Robert J. Glushko, he maintains the Doc or Die blog.
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- Publisher : Mit Pr
- Publication date : January 1, 2008
- Language : English
- Print length : 703 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0262572451
- ISBN-13 : 978-0262572453
- Item Weight : 2.15 pounds
- Dimensions : 7 x 1 x 8.75 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #6,571,822 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Tim McGrath was born in South Australia and attended school in the UK before returning to live in Perth Western Australia, the most remote city in the world. Despite this handicap, Tim has worked with organizations across the globe.
In terms of gainful employment, Tim is the Managing Director and a Principal Consultant of Document Engineering Services, an international consortium of experts supporting universal business interoperability through the use of open standards.
In the world of eBusiness standards, Tim is the vice-chair of the OASIS Universal Language Technical Committee (UBL) and an Australian delegate to UN/CEFACT. Buying one of his books supports these activities.
When doing neither, Tim has been teaching himself to play the piano accordion and occasionally taking time out to promote and teach Document Engineering and UBL throughout Europe and Asia.
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- Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2015From my favorite thinkers. Robert Glushko and Tim McGrath explore what a document is today and how we can put them to work for us.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2007Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseI was lured by the title and reviews hoping to get insight on how to generically define large documents that could easily be extended as requirements change and consumed by a wide variety of clients using different arbitrary programming languages. I didn't learn anything new about extensibility, and programming languages are absent from this book.
Instead the book seems to be a somewhat dated look at a high level process for using documents in a service oriented architecture. The calendar example application seems too simple to translate into a more complex real life application. The approach described for "document engineering" is much more reminiscent of waterfall style development approaches rather than lean/agile techniques.
I also found the text very difficult to read; it's very dry.
Perhaps this book is useful for some, but it certainly isn't helpful for everybody.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2005Format: HardcoverAt the end of the day, business success comes down to three things: a product, the market, and the business processes. The business processes consist of people, tools and workflow. You can have a great product in a great market but if you have bad business processes...you can forget about it. Many organizations have tried to implement Six Sigma to ensure highly effective business processes. The key to six sigma is data. Data tells you how effective your processes are. For example, data will tell you things like: how many parts per million are defective, how many invoices per million were inaccurate, how many orders shipped late, how long it takes to execute an order once a contract is signed, how long a customer support rep spent on the phone, etc......Once you have the data, evaluating the problem and recommeding a solution is easy. The hard part however is getting the data. You can either collect the data manually over time or if you have the infrastructure you can collect it electronically through software. Unfortunately if you have to collect the data manually, it takes a long time, effort and money. If you collect data electronically it enables no additional time and provides real time visibility and the ability to implement positive changes on the fly. So how do you go from a manual data collection process to an automated data collection process? That's what this book, Document Engineering, will help you figure out. I have owned this book for about 2 months and it has been on my desk since. I continuously refer to it for insights on how to develop a clear plan on how to implement a data collection infrastructure that will help to more effectively manage business processes.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2006Format: HardcoverComponent modeling, analysis of information exchanges, and
application services usage patterns are critical areas to focus
on in designing internal and external interfaces exposed by
enterprises, ASPs/SaaS, and other consumer-oriented internet
services. We have many good examples of scalable, evolvable,
easy to integrate and interoperable Web Services API in the
consumer-oriented internet industry currently. The areas
covered in the DOCUMENT ENGINEERING is very relevant to
architects, product managers, developers and technology
executives. I especially found the design patterns and process
discussion helpful. I would recommend this book to anyone
interested in services oriented application platforms, internal
and external enterprise integration to employ in the design
phase since it covers an effective methodology of designing
interfaces based on the document-centric component model.
Zahid Ahmed
San Jose, CA
- Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2006Format: HardcoverDocument Engineering is a practical exploration of the role documents play in the nexus of contracts that drive modern businesses. The interdisciplinary approach put forward here, taking document engineering out of the realm of pure software engineering, is eye opening and provides some real insight into what it takes to make Service Oriented Architectures work in the real world. This is an absolute must read book for anyone seriously considering developing an XML based document integration strategy.