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Approaches business systems from a user perspective. Features a step-by-step, self-teaching pedagogy, focusing on critical thinking by presenting concepts and analysis problems designed to promote interest in social, ethical, and legal computing issues. Includes integration of information processing ideas with software concepts, new IS products and resources, back to basics coverage of hardware such as micros and mainframes plus hot topics in computing.

Product Description: The "father of data warehousing" incorporates the latest technologies into his blueprint for integrated decision support systems Today's corporate IT and data warehouse managers are required to make a small army of technologies work together to ensure fast and accurate information for business managers...read more

Product Description: Learn how to apply robust application design to your J2EE projects There are a number of best practices you need to consider to build highly effective J2EE components and integrate them into applications. These practices include evaluating and selecting the right set of software components and services to handle the job...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: * Pull out map poster - this huge poster shows every area in the game plus, on the back, a flowchart of the games chapters and story lines* Full Walkthrough - Tips for completing every objective and mini-mission. The game is big and the route to success is long, Prima helps players every step of the way, including the new missions for Xbox 360 and the PSP game...read more

A revolutionary way to describe business, xBML (extended Business Modelling Language) is an intuitive graphical language that unlocks the DNA of a corporation using a system of diagrams based on five Ws (Who; What; Which; Where; When). xBML gives companies an complete and accurate map of their enterprise, that can then be re-used repeatedly to describe, plan and create improvement. It’s time to throw out the flow charts. xBML breaks down the silos of an enterprise and provides the means for clear, concise communication between all members of the organization. Tyler and Baker provide a complete guide to xBML, and to why unlocking an organization’s Business Genetics will lead to quantifiable business improvement.

Product Description: BusinessObjects may seem like a dauntingly complex topic, but BusinessObjects XI Release 2 For Dummies makes is a snap. Even if you're new to business intelligence tools, this user-friendly guide makes it easy to access, format and share data, analyze the information this data contains, and measure your organization’s performance...read more

If you use the web to reach out beyond the confines of your office, cubicle, or home to connect and collaborate with others doing the same thing, you’re a web worker. In this book you'll learn how to use new web tools, discover sites and services you might want to try, and meet the social web where people are as important as corporations. You’ll learn how people are working in new ways because of the web, and how you can too.

The fifth edition of this popular book presents the fundamental concepts of data communications, networking, distributed applications, and network management and security; and uses real world case studies to explicate business environment and business management and staff issues. Up-to-date coverage of key issues-the use of the Internet, intranets, and extranets support business objectives, LANs, WANs, high-speed networks, asychronous transfer mode (ATM) and TCP/IP. Accessible presentation for information systems managers, telecommunications managers, product marketing personnel, and system support specialists.

Product Description: Ingo Weber develops new approaches for the rapid development and flexible adaption of business processes, which are often the main requirements in today’s IT support for enterprises. Key issues covered by his work are the automatic composition of processes out of predefined components and the verification of specific process properties...read more

Product Description: The Internet has revolutionized business practices by enabling the rapid exchange of electronic documents and information. Eventually, nearly all information that flows or is exchanged within an organization will be electronic.E-Strategies for Resource Management Systems: Planning and Implementation offers insight into current research practices and trends in information resource management strategies that can implemented electronically...read more

In this pragmatic, example-driven book, author Neil Constable demonstrates how you can use SAS code to enhance the capabilities of SAS Enterprise Guide. Designed to help you gain extra value from the products you already have, this book contains tips and techniques that show you a variety of features that cannot be accessed directly through the task interfaces. In all cases, techniques are shown with examples that you can try and test, plus additional exercises are included to give you more practice. The end result is more efficient and resilient use of SAS Enterprise Guide in a wider variety of business areas. Included is a discussion of the following subject areas: the Output Delivery System advanced formatting macro variables and macros advanced reporting using PROC REPORT highlighting in reports hyperlinking between reports and graphs data manipulation using SQL data manipulation using the DATA step extended graphics By adding small amounts of code in key areas, SAS Enterprise Guide users can get more out of the product than the tasks reveal. Users should be familiar with the SAS Enterprise Guide user interface and tasks. No programming experience is necessary.

Product Description: Major enterprises and small start-ups are beginning to embrace cloud computing for the scalability and reliability that cloud vendors can provide. This book demonstrates how to implement robust and highly scalable cloud computing applications...read more

Product Description: Business process modelling (BPM) is the activity of representing processes of an enterprise so that the current process may be analysed and improved. BPM is typically performed by business analysts and managers who are seeking to improve process efficiency and quality...read more