Technical principles of Web applications

The principles of IS urbanism

• What is urbanism? Mapping the existing elements. Defining the target IS.
• Who are the players in an urbanism project? What is the time scale?
• What are the deliverables? What is the control structure? Which approach should you adopt? Analyses: maturity, integrati
• Impact analyses: the cultural transition for the company and the ISD, the learning curve for the teams, organisation in

Integration-oriented architectures: a concrete response to Urbanism

• Enterprise Application Integration: EAI. Principles. Why are integration problems more concerned with organisational and

Web services

• The Web services concept and the related standards (SOAP, WSDL, WS-*).
• Developing and deploying Web Services.
• The position of the main players in the market.

e-Business infrastructures

• Background.
• Attempts at standardisation (BPSS, cXML, xCBL, BTP, etc.), market offers (Commerce One, Ariba, Rightworks, Biztalk).
• ebXML v RosettaNet.
• Architecture, standards, adoptions, feedback. Financial and accounting standards.
• Orchestrating services (BPML, BPEL, BPEL4WS).

Service-oriented architectures (SOA)

• What is a "service"?
• Differences between managers and brokers. Orchestrating several services. Transactional aspects.
• Security. Supervision and maintenance.
• Concrete examples of applications for distributing contracts and insurance services.
• ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) architectures: an SOA - EAI convergence?

Web Content Management (WCM), document management (GED, WDM)

• Content management issues.
• Why collaborative working?
• Static sites v dynamic sites, using XML, managing roles. Description of content management and document management tools
• The advantages of personalisation.
• Knowledge Management.

The enterprise portal (EIP)

• The functions that the company really needs.
• Bringing all the data sources together and distributing them via one single application, the browser. Technical problems
• Major tools: IBM WebSphere Portal, BEA Plumtree, MS Sharepoint Server ...

Data Warehouse

• Adjusting the information system to the business. Improving the monitoring, forecasting and optimisation of the economic
• Description of the complete chain: from collecting data in the operational systems through to its presentation in decisi

Security infrastructure

• Making information exchanges secure: authentication, authorisation, integrity, confidentiality, non-repudiation and lega

IS Governance and supervision

• Technical monitoring. Definitions. Protocoles (SNMP, JMX, WMI). APM tools (Quest PerformaSecure, CA Wily). Business Acti