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Who Needs Standards

It just works, doesn't it? George Moon CTO MapInfo Corporation. Who Needs Standards. Philadelphia, May 2–4, 2005 www.locationintelligence.net. Agenda. Who Needs Standards Any Way Some Examples Why Not Then Again... Maybe Some Examples Why. Who Needs Standards Any Way.

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Who Needs Standards

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  1. It just works, doesn't it? George Moon CTO MapInfo Corporation Who Needs Standards

  2. Philadelphia, May 2–4, 2005 www.locationintelligence.net Agenda • Who Needs Standards Any Way • Some Examples Why Not • Then Again... • Maybe • Some Examples Why

  3. Who Needs Standards Any Way • Not Company's that Are the Center of the Universe • De Facto Standards – follow them or lose your way • Besides Standards are Always • by Committee and mean Lowest Common Denominator and don't do what you need.

  4. It Just Works – City of Goteborg

  5. It Just Works

  6. It Just Works – Microsoft Office http://www.microsoft.com/office/prodinfo.mspx

  7. But for Everyone and How Long? • Main Frame • Federal and EU Rulings • Open Source • Open Office to Office • MySQL to Oracle, DB2, SQL/Server... • Linux to Unix and Windows • What about Interoperability?

  8. If Important Which? • What they are not • Free • Without value • Some that Matter to the Business Community • XML – SOAP, UDDI or REST, WSDL, BPEL • Several JSRs – 168, 170, 179 ... • LDAP • SQL

  9. JSR 168: Portlet Specification • Java Community Process http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168 • Led by Sun and IBM • 1.0 Final Release Oct 27, 2003 • Interoperability between Portlets/Portals • Set of APIs addressing areas of aggregation,personalization, presentation and security.

  10. Content Applications Processes People Portals are being deployed today to meet business challenges B2E Portals improve employee productivity and speed decision making B2B Portals build partner relationships through integration with your business processes B2C Portals increase customer loyalty and cross-sell revenue Common portal framework reduces costs and meets changing requirements

  11. Generic Portal Example

  12. Typical Portal Features • Single Point of Access for particular audience • Broad array of resources and services brought together from 1 source • Sense of community • Customisation, personalisation, integration • Portal Types - Subject Portals, User Community Portals, InstitutionalPortals…

  13. Why integrate GIS in a Portal? • Allow information to be shared to a broader community • Integration of multiple applications • Loose coupling and rapid integration • Good esthetics • Security and context to sensitive data

  14. CRM Application BI Application Integration at the glass GIS Web Services Personalization Customization Weather Service Navigation OpenLS Services Single Sign On Secure Access Legacy systems People Awareness Rapid, Role Based Deployment Web Services Scalability and Reliability Using GIS in a Portal IT Perspective User Perspective

  15. Conclusions

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