With all the fantastic Cisco documentation available online, why does the world of UCCE need this book? UCCE is such a big topic that it would be easy to think that it is possible to try and cover absolutely everything. Unfortunately, this would turn this book into nothing more than a product reference manual that could potentially be...

A recent CBS poll revealed that, as a result of corporate scandals at Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia Communications, and others, a whopping two-thirds of Americans believe that corporate executives are dishonest. This overall assessment is even worse now than during the last financial crises, the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s....

In the five years since the first edition was published, Microsoft has made impressive progress in building out its data warehousing and business intelligence tools suite. It is gratifying to those of us who work in this space to see the steady commitment that Microsoft has made to provide usable, professional quality tools. During...

When I was asked to update Sams Teach Yourself SAP in 24 Hours, I was completely thrilled. Seriously! The world of SAP and our world in general have gone through major upheavals in the last few years, and I was excited to share with SAPlings and veterans alike just how much had changed. In the same way, I was anxious to realign and...

This book is an annotated version of the C# Language Standard, created by adding around 400 separate annotations to the complete text of the Standard. The Standard was formally adopted as ISO Standard 23270:2006 in April 2006 and published in August 2006, and adopted as Ecma International Standard 334 version 4 in June 2006. Microsoft...

Whether you are a SQL Server business intelligence (BI) developer or a SharePoint Administrator, this book shows you how Microsoft is delivering on its commitment to provide useful, usable BI to its customers. It provides a quick dive into new Microsoft SharePoint 2010 BI features and offerings as well as new SQL Server BI...

From its beginnings, the Internet has fostered communication, collaboration and networking between users. However, the first boom at the turn of the millennium was mainly driven by a rather one-sided interaction: e-commerce, portal sites and the broadcast models of mainstream media were introduced to theWeb. Over the last six or seven...

Google AdWords is a huge opportunity for businesses and other organizations to improve their results from Google search, to increase sales, to try out new business ideas, and in general to make the Web friendlier. However, it’s also a way to spend money without realizing much return. Helping you to use AdWords effectively from...

In the last 15 years, some of us have witnessed mail becoming e-mail, grocery stores becoming www.store, and step-by-step technology becoming part of our daily life. Technology development has radically changed the enterprise's way of doing business. First, daily tasks such as sales, client, and vendor management became...

IBM Cognos TM1 is one of the most popular multidimensional analysis tools used to build collaborative planning, budgeting, and forecasting solutions, as well as analytical and reporting applications. This cube-based technology does fast number crunching at the server end and helps end customers move away from manual and tedious planning,...

Oracle Essbase 11 Development Cookbook will help you learn the tools necessary for the development of Essbase databases in Oracle Essbase version 11.1.2.1. Here you will find over 90 recipes that explain everything from how to use a relational data model to building and loading an Essbase database in Essbase Studio. The book also goes over...