Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0

Django), which have embraced the MVC (Model-View-Controller) application pattern, and if you’re one of those developers, or even if you’re just curious, this book is for you. MVC allows for (buzzword alert!) a “greater separation of concerns” between components in your application. We’ll go into the ramifi cations of this later on, but if it had to be said it in a quick sentence: AS…

Pro SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services

Pro SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services offers an in-depth look into the latest and greatest suite of analytic tools from Microsoft. This book will help you create business intelligence (BI) solutions that improve your company’s analysis and decision making by focusing on practical, solution-oriented application of the technologies available in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services (SSAS). Using th…

Pro SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery and High Availability

I wrote this book to share what I have learned about high availability and disaster recovery for SharePoint at this point in time. It is certainly an interesting time. In the past 10 years, SharePoint has gone from a compiled application that just looked superficially like a web application into a more fully fledged cloud platform. The process is far from over, however, and SharePoint will like…

Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services

Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services is for the Windows professional who is ready to make the leap to the cloud. While Cloud Computing has been around for a while now, enterprise adoption is just beginning. This book is written specifically for Windows professionals who already know PowerShell, and want to learn to host Windows workloads in the Amazon Cloud. Windows professionals find themsel…

Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11 g

Organizations are discovering with increasing frequency that the vast majority of their information assets have a spatial component, for example, the location of customers, shipments, facilities, personnel, competitors, and so on. The ability to use this information properly is fundamental to reducing operational costs, optimizing production efficiency, and increasing the quality of service. Ev…

Pro Freeware and Open Source Solutions for Business

In early 2009, I was relaunching my business in a new city (my family and I relocated in late 2008). We had actually planned this move for a couple of years, but the timing of the sale of our house coincided with the unfolding Financial Crisis. Like many other families, we were impacted in a negative way. Our relationship with money was forever redefined, and careful budgeting became a top pri…

Introduction to Risk Management in the Public Procurement of Innovation

This guide aims to provide an overview of risk management in the context of public procurement of innovation (PPI). By definition, pursuing an innovative solution is a process that involves a higher degree of uncertainty towards the intended result compared to choosing for a proven solution. These uncertainties often act as a major barrier to innovation. Therefore, risk management is a key suc…

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Investor Exits, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Firm Growth

The bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2001 coincided with an abrupt and so far lasting change in the development of entrepreneurial venture-backed firms in the United States. Previously, entrepreneurs and investors commonly took viable young firms public through initial public offerings (IPOs). In some well-known cases, these firms subsequently grew into major, globally competitive corporatio…

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Capturing Change in Science, Technology, and Innovation: Improving Indicator…

The availability of relevant, accurate, timely, and objec- tive information on the health of the science, technology, and innovation (STI) enterprise in the United States is critical to addressing vital policy questions for the nation. Just some of these questions are • How is the contribution of STI to productivity, employment, and growth in the broader U.S. econ- omy changing in a world o…

Science, Technology & Innovation Indicators

The social sciences, humanities, and law (SSH) are known to have more heterogeneous publi- cation patterns than the sciences, medicine, and technology (STM). On the one hand, original peer-reviewed research is published in a wider range of formats. Book publishing (monographs or articles in edited volumes) may even be more important than journal publishing in some of the disciplines (Sivertsen …

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Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 4

In this chapter you’ve seen how to deploy your application to both the server and the client, and personalize the Silverlight install and application download experiences for the user to your company/application. Despite being fairly easy, adding personalization and branding to these aspects of the application is often overlooked by Silverlight developers. However, doing so can provide a more…

Wealth Through Integration

In December 2008, when I met with the president of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), I was far from imagining that the work we wanted to do together would become a reality so quickly. As early as the beginning of 2009, we were given a unique opportunity to share our respective experiences through the celebration, throughout 2009, of 15 years of the West African Economic …

Principles of Mobile Computing and Communications

The most familiar aspect of mobile computing technology is the hand phone. About two decades ago, a hand phone was bulky and was only used for voice communication. It was merely an extension of the fixed line telephony that allowed users to keep in touch with colleagues. Now the hand phone is not only used for voice communication, it is also used to send text and multimedia messages. Future mob…

EDUCATION MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM

The main purpose of an EMIS is to integrate information related to the management of educational activities, and to make it available in comprehensive yet succinct ways to a variety of users. These include teachers, principals, curriculum planners, inspectorate officials, financial controllers, planners, policy advisers and political leaders, as well as parents and students. In this way, the…

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Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting

White-collar crime is rampant, and has been for some time, in the business community of the U.S. economy. Experts have estimated that the costs of white-collar crime averages about 20 times the costs of street crimes each year. The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) estimated that fraud cost the U.S. economy $660 billion in 2004. But white-collar crime has taken a backseat to stree…

From Stress to Success Faster Emotionally Focused Transformations

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Practical Business Analytics Using SAS

There is an ever-increasing need for advanced information and decision support systems in today’s fierce global competitive environment. The profitability and the overall business can be managed better with access to predictive tools—to predict, even approximately, the market prices of raw materials used in production, for instance. Business analytics involves, among others, quantitative te…

Platform Embedded Security Technology Revealed

Malware, virus, e-mail scam, identity theft, evil maid, password logger, screen scraper… Cyber security concerns everyone. Computers can be your trusted friends or traitors. The Internet is a scary place. Going on the Internet is like walking the streets of a crime-ridden neighborhood. Cyber criminals work to steal your privacy, money, assets, and even identity. Cyber-attacks are intangible, …