THE BUSINESS CASE FOR PROJECT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

The expression “better, faster, cheaper” is commonly associated with supply chain initiatives, where companies have developed an edge by getting products to market faster and more efficiently than their competitors. However, in the new world of cloud computing, more companies are looking at their IT department as a competitive differentiator by enabling them to quickly deploy hosted appli…

ITIL for the Small and Midsized Business

Small and midsized businesses experience business issues and challenges that are inherently different from those of larger enterprises. They generally have smaller workforces, lower budgets, and less complex IT environments than enterprise organizations. And yet, small and midsized businesses must meet the same types of demands as enterprise organizations, and optimize service levels to sup…

Combine ITIL and COBIT to Meet Business Challenges

IT organizations are under increasing pressure to meet the business goals of their companies. This challenge can be particularly daunting because it involves complying with regulations, such as the Sarbanes- Oxley Act (Sarbox) and Basel II. Compliance requires strong corporate governance capabilities that are demonstrable to outside auditors. Because IT plays such a major role in business proce…

How to Access and Buy Business Management Software

For most companies, changing accounting software is a daunting challenge. Not only is transitioning the accounting function to a new software package tricky in itself, but it is usually catalyzed by one or more business challenges that are (hopefully) solved by the new system. As a result, most companies wait until problems have become (or are obviously becoming) insurmountable before initiatin…

Achieving sustainable business growth with a remote support solution

Are you expanding your reach into international markets without knowing how you will provide cost-effective, quality support? If you are, you’re not alone. According to the Small Business Administration, the number of American businesses sending their goods and services overseas has tripled since 1990. About two-thirds of that boom comes from companies with fewer than 20 employees. No longe…

The Cisco Smart Business Roadmap

The rate of change and the amount of competition in the business world is escalating. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) need to ensure that the technology solutions they buy meet today’s business needs and are flexible enough to grow with this rapidly evolving business environment. The Cisco® Smart Business Roadmap provides a structured, planned evolution path to help organizations ta…

Connecting Business and IT Goals With Closed Loop Client Management

Client Management is the IT discipline of managing the lifecycle of end user systems (including desktops, lap- tops, and handhelds) from initial deployment, through provisioning, upgrade, and patch, to deprovisioning and decommissioning. This entails conflicting requirements from IT – which requires tight control and detailed planning – and the business – which requires flexibility and fa…

Statistics in Business, Finance, Management & Information Technology

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Understanding IT Decoding Technology and Business

This work is intended for the enjoyment and education of individuals that are just entering the world of Information Technology. It is intended to give a brief, high-level overview of the technologies in use today, their history, and their use in the world of business. As a result of trying to cover a very large and diverse topic in under two hundred pages, as well as the author’s attempt t…

UML for the IT Business Analyst

Ibegan working on the first edition of this book in the year 2000.As a former developer and current IT business analyst,I could see an approaching technological wave affecting my colleagues. Thanks in large part to client-server applications and the Internet, object-oriented (OO) languages like C++ and Java were taking over the development world. This had already changed the way the technical m…

The Four Intelligence of The Business Mind

Information overload is the new normal. We have too much to think about and too little time to manage the rush of information coming at us from multiple sources. The nonstop tsunami of structured and unstructured data that slams into our lives throughout our waking hours—and, for some of us, throughout our sleeping hours—can adversely affect our clarity of thought and, thus, our decision-ma…

The Business of iOS App Development

This book is to help developers with every aspect of the App Store. Oftentimes, we see amazing apps go unnoticed. There are many factors that can cause this, but often it is because we developers have trouble thinking with a business mindset. David and I wrote this book to provide you with every single thing you will need to make your apps succeed in the every crowded app marketplace. You will …

The Business of Android Apps Development

The mobile application business model is essentially the new get-rich-quick scheme. There are many who put out their app on smartphone platforms, and begin to start receiving profits from users, advertisers, and shops within their applications. There is, of course, a lot of work involved before the developer can simply sit back and watch the money roll in. This was certainly the case for iOS du…

Silverlight 4 Business Intelligence Software

It is a very exciting time to be in the software development industry. The governing concepts of developing software are changing and rapidly evolving before our eyes. Skills and frameworks that you may have used even just two years ago could very well be considered obsolete and replaced with something more efficient. This is why software vendors and the developers of engineering products need …

Service Oriented Java Business Integration

Today's enterprise is not confined to the physical boundaries of an organization. Open systems and an open IT infrastructure strives to provide interoperability not only between platforms, runtimes, and languages, but also across enterprises. When our concerns shift from networked systems to networked enterprises, a whole lot of opportunities open up to interact with enterprise applications. Wh…

Professional Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint® 2010

THE CREATION OF BUSINESS CONNECTIVITY SERVICES (BCS) for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 involved a massive investment of people and resources by Microsoft. The result of this investment is a set of services, components, and technologies that have signifi cant implications for the entire SharePoint community. Gradually, the impact of BCS is beginning t…

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…

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…

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 11g is packed full of features and has a fresh approach to information presentation, system management and security. This book will introduce the reader to those features, providing a step-by-step guide to building a complete system from scratch. The aim of the book is to equip a developer or analyst with a good basic understanding of what…

Business Cycles and Financial Crises

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Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development Beginner's Guide

Welcome to the wonderful world of Silverlight, Microsoft's platform for building Rich Internet Applications (RIA). The earliest versions of Silverlight focused on rich media, interactivity, and animation. Now Silverlight has gotten down to business with new features geared towards making business application development faster and easier. Of course, you still have access to all the graphics and…

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Blueprints

This book will dive into a diverse set of real-world scenarios to deliver sample business solutions that can serve as the foundation for your own solutions. It draws from the author's extensive experience with SharePoint to leverage the platform's underlying services to provide solutions that can support social collaboration, content and document management, as well as project collaboration. Ea…

Microsoft® Excel® 2010: Data Analysis and Business Modeling

Whether you work for a Fortune 500 corporation, a small company, a government agency, or a not-for-profit organization, if you’re reading this introduction the chances are you use Microsoft Excel in your daily work. Your job probably involves summarizing, reporting, and analyzing data. It might also involve building analytic models to help your employer increase profits, reduce costs, or mana…

Microsoft® Business Intelligence FOR Dummies

It’s an old, tired joke among people in the armed services that “military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.” And yet, intelligence in the mili- tary sense — accurate, timely information that can help produce an effective strategy — is more important these days than ever before. As organizations continue to pursue their goals in an economy that seems more like a battle- field, …

The Accounting Game

How do people really learn? The answers and theories are endless. They include ideas ranging from genetic imprinting to osmosis and modeling and emotional intelligence. Brain research is voluminous in the 21st century. For now, though, please ask yourself: How do I learn? Isn’t that an interesting question? And, what do you learn? Do you learn infor- mation from reading, watching videos, usin…

Business Briefs

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Women's Business

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Business risk management

Increasingly, organisations are taking a holistic approach to managing risk and this represents both a challenge and an opportunity for health and safety professionals. If you’re unfamiliar with the principles and language of business risk management (BRM), you may be marginalised and left behind. If you understand and apply its principles – and can communicate with other business disciplin…

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