1. Database-Driven Web Sites
Presented by Wei-Li Liaw
Nov

2. Overview 1. What is Database-Driven Website
2. Why build a Dbase-driven Website?
3. Successful Story
4. What is Database
5. History of Database
6. Database choices
7. IA and Dbase-driven Website
8. Conclusion
9. References

3. What is Database-Driven Website
A database-driven Web site is a Web site that uses a database to gather, display, or manipulate information

4. Traditional Database-driven Html Pages V.S. Website
Html Website
Database-Driven Website
Where do you store your data
.html files
Database Tables
How to store your data
Static
Dynamic
( in real time)
Maintenance
Hard (If you have many pages)
Easy

5. Traditional Web Pages (1)
The data you want to store

6. Traditional Web Pages (2)
Data is stored in the source code

7. Traditional Web Pages (3)$

8. Why database-driven Website? (1)
Content is king !!
Achieving complete separation between your site's design and the content you want to present.
Interaction in real time
Sorting and Ranking

9. Why database-driven Website? (2)
Example – Team Work
Users /
Web Visual Designers
Database Designers /
Web content managers
------
Interaction

10. Why database-driven Website? (3)
Example - Blog

11. Why database-driven Website? (4)
Sorting and Ranking
Using a relational database allows you to quickly and easily answer queries about prices, customers, or products.
Examples:

12. Successful Story (1) Overview
One of the largest facilities maintenance providers in North America, UNICCO Service Company (UNICCO) has built its success on long-term customer loyalty, earning a 95 percent customer retention rate. As the industry became increasingly competitive, UNICCO realized that, to maintain its high customer retention rate, it needed to provide its field force with more sophisticated tools to accelerate the flow of information.
Resource:

13. Successful Story (2) Website need: User’s Opinion:
Speed up the flow of information on results of facilities inspections to improve customer satisfaction and increase business.
User’s Opinion:
” (With Database) we’ll be able to continuously improve our quality with tested, proven and secure technology.”
- Bilal Khokhar, Development Manager of Field Applications, UNICCO
Resource:

14. Successful Story (3) 70% to 80% savings in deployment costs…..;
….95% customer retention rate from integration of the handheld with corporate data stores; improved customer satisfaction
Resource:

15. What is Database Definition
A database is an organized collection of information records that can be accessed electronically. In the Library this includes indexing and abstracting databases, citation databases or databases of full text journal articles.

16. History of Database
1890 –
Herman Hollerith developed the world's first automated information processing equipment.
1960’s - The first database management systems were developed by Charles Bachman.
1980’s - The first commercial products, Oracle and DB2, did not appear until around 1980.
1990’s - innovation of Object-oriented database.
The relational model was proposed by E. F. Codd.

17. Database Choices IBM DB2 Oracle Database 10g Microsoft SQL server
MySQL
And more….

18. Database Choices - the 2004 market share
Total : $7.8 billion U.S dollars
The database market grew by 10.3 percent in 2004
According to numbers released by the Gartner Inc. in May 2005

19. Information Architects and Database-driven Website (1)
Good design principles of Database reduce the maintenance cost.
Good designs of IA lead to better reliability and performance.
Combining Database with IA

20. Information architects and Database-driven Website (2)
What you want to achieve with you website?
Who is your target users?
How many users?
What kind of database is suitable for you?

21. Information architects and Database-driven Website (3)
Database can provide faster access to data.
Let your users use this function easily

22. Information Architects and Database-driven Website (4)
Efficient Sorting

23. Conclusion Provide useful information. Good presentation.
Answering feedback generated by the site.
Not allowing a site to age.
Tracking the success of the site.
Maintaining your database.

24. References
Build your own Database Driven Website using PHP & MySQL from
SQL Server 2005 Amid DBMS Market Dynamics from
Market share analysis from
IBM, Oracle Race for Database Dominance from
Database Growth Slower but Steady from
A Short Database History from
UNICCO enhances customer satisfaction with mobile workforce solution from IBM from
PHP & MySQL, Luke Welling and Laura Thomson
The Rise of Relational Databases from

25. Q & A
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