The world of business and commerce is changing. As technology advances at a rate of knots and the geography of global working becomes less and less relevant, so the need to run an effective business becomes more and more important. Businesses grow at an alarming rate, often overnight. Interest in particular field can explode resulting...

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Enable real-time information access and data sharing across your distributed framework using the expert information in this Oracle Press guide. Oracle Streams 11g Data Replication explains how to set up and administer a unified enterprise data sharing infrastructure. Learn how...

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The practice of compiler construction changes continually, in part because the designs of processors and systems change. For example, when we began to write Engineering a Compiler (eac) in 1998, some of our colleagues questioned the wisdom of including a chapter on instruction scheduling because out-of-order execution threatened to make...

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Investing in a business application—be it managing one's customers, tracking inventory, coordinating global resources, or just being able to get real-time visibility to cash flow—has never been so important. Gone are the days when companies invested in business applications, such as CRM and ERP, to simply streamline their...

Are you a software developer? Are you interested in how build systems work? You’re reading this book; so there’s a good chance you answered “Yes” to both questions. On the other hand, many software developers aren’t interested in how their program is compiled. Most people just want to press a button and...

You have to give Adobe credit. There aren’t many companies that have managed to change the world once, let alone twice. In 1985, Adobe introduced PostScript, which became the rock on which the entire electronic publishing industry was built; they forever changed the world of professional printing. In 1994, Adobe launched...

When organizations try to connect with their customers online, one of the first things they always want to know is “how can we get our users to do...

Doing business online is no longer an oddity, but the norm, and companies desiring to remain competitive have to maintain some form of online presence. Doing business online means a company has to be able to efficiently, reliably, and securely take payments from consumers and other merchants. This book is written to provide the...

CERT® Resilience Management Model (CERT-RMM) is an innovative and transformative way to manage operational resilience in complex, risk-evolving environments. CERT-RMM distills years of research into best practices for managing the security and survivability of people, information, technology, and facilities. It...