The adage “knowledge is power” is widely accepted in corporate circles and tremendous amounts of data have and are being accumulated towards the goal of acquiring more knowledge. But corporations are increasingly realizing that there is a wide gap between “data” and “knowledge.” Data warehousing and data...

Business Services Orchestration (BSO) is a new, unique, far-reaching industry technology encompassing the art of harmoniously organizing the interactions between business services. These business services may represent internal business processes of organizations. Integration of many of these internal legacy, custom, and COTS applications may,...

THE WINDOWS INTERFACE GUIDELINES FOR SOFTWARE DESIGN is an essential handbook for all programmers and designers working with the latest release of Windows, regardless of experience level or development tools used. This book covers the basic principles of...

Tcl stands for Tool Command Language. Tcl is really two things: a scripting language, and an interpreter for that language that is designed to be easy to embed into your application. Tcl and its associated graphical user-interface toolkit, Tk, were designed and...

Used alone or as an in-depth supplement to the bestselling The CISSP Prep Guide, this book provides you with an even more intensive preparation for the CISSP exam. With the help of more than 300 advanced questions and detailed answers,...

• Implementing the new XML features in Spreadsheet Portals and Web Services
• Auditing spreadsheets provided by third parties
• Making spreadsheets accessible to individuals with disabilities
• Performing spreadsheet makeovers
• Constructing...

Executive compensation in America is out of control. Board members of some of America's largest corporations have publicly acknowledged this problem and are actively searching for solutions. While new accounting rules requiring an expense for options are a step in the right...