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Eliminating Waste in Business
Run Lean, Boost Profitability
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Redundant employees. Storerooms full of extra stock "in case we need it." Marketing money sprayed in all directions in the vain hope it will create customers. Duplicate IT systems. HR policies that fatten the corporate waistline rather than keeping it trim. Budgeting exercises that result...
BizTalk 2013 Recipes
A Problem-Solution Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
BizTalk 2013 Recipes provides ready-made solutions to BizTalk Server 2013 developers. The recipes in the book save you the effort of developing your own solutions to common problems that have been solved many times over. The solutions demonstrate sound practice, the result of hard-earned wisdom by...
Disciplined Growth Strategies
Insights from the Growth Trajectories of Successful and Unsuccessful Companies
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Accelerate your company's growth in a disciplined fashion. This book provides leaders of large and small companies a proven comprehensive framework to think systematically about growth options and to yield practical strategies that produce faster growth.
Drawing insights from case studies of...
Big Data Application Architecture Q&A
A Problem - Solution Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Big Data Application Architecture Pattern Recipes provides an insight into heterogeneous infrastructures, databases, and visualization and analytics tools used for realizing the architectures of big data solutions. Its problem-solution approach helps in selecting the right architecture to solve the...
Project Management Basics
How to Manage Your Project with Checklists
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Learn step-by-step instructions for managing any project in a clean sequence of five classic phases—initiating, planning, executing, releasing, and closing. This book sets out clearly and engagingly which tasks need to be done and when, how, and why they need to be done. Each chapter on one of the...
Fixing and Flipping Real Estate
Strategies for the Post-Boom Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Let’s face it—fixing and flipping houses is sexy. Who doesn’t love the idea of buying a rundown, mold-infested shack and transforming it into someone’s dream home for massive profits? Reality TV shows make it look so easy. A little paint here, some new kitchen cabinets there, and presto! The...
Reinventing Financial Regulation
A Blueprint for Overcoming Systemic Risk
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Reinventing Financial Regulation offers an analysis of the fundamental flaws that plague the current system of financial regulation, one built around ideas of "risk-sensitivity" and "capital adequacy." Author Avinash Persaud argues that while some sensible reforms have been introduced,...
Apache Solr
A Practical Approach to Enterprise Search
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2015
Build an enterprise search engine using Apache Solr: index and search documents; ingest data from varied sources; apply various text processing techniques; utilize different search capabilities; and customize Solr to retrieve the desired results. Apache Solr: A Practical Approach to Enterprise Search...
Microsoft Dynamics CRM API Development for Online and On-Premise Environments
Covering On-Premise and Online Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Microsoft Dynamics CRM has a robust API that includes web services and an extensive SDK. As you develop CRM Plugins and custom integrations, you will find that there are many complexities and challenges associated with successfully interacting with this API.
In order to ensure that you have...
Infrastructure Software Modules for Enterprises
Flexible Software Systems, Module Use-Cases, and Wireframes
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Reduce the time spent analyzing infrastructure modules while lowering your cost and resources in the process. Most software project teams that develop custom software build the systems from scratch. With limited budgets and time, they often concentrate on the business functionality and try to minimize...
Healthcare, Insurance, and You
The Savvy Consumer's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Healthcare is changing and you need to know how—and what to do about it.
Getting good medical care shouldn’t be so confusing—or so costly. Healthcare, Insurance, and You simplifies the many confusing details about our healthcare system so you can make informed decisions. Result? Better...
Automated Trading with R
Quantitative Research and Platform Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Learn to trade algorithmically with your existing brokerage, from data management, to strategy optimization, to order execution, using free and publicly available data. Connect to your brokerage’s API, and the source code is plug-and-play.
Automated Trading with R explains automated trading,...
by Adam Aspin
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Deliver eye-catching Business Intelligence with Microsoft Power BI Desktop. This new edition has been updated to cover all the latest features, including combo charts, Cartesian charts, trend lines, use of gauges, and more. Also covered are Top-N features, the ability to bin data into groupings and...
Beginning Power BI with Excel 2013
Self-Service Business Intelligence Using Power Pivot, Power View, Power Query, and Power Map
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Understanding your company’s data has never been easier than with Microsoft’s new Power BI package for Excel 2013. Consisting of four powerful tools—Power Pivot, Power View, Power Query and Power Maps—Power BI makes self-service business intelligence a reality for a wide range of users, bridging...