Start a successful online business—and be your own boss!
Being an online entrepreneur means more than just building a website—and this book breaks down everything you need to know to be successful. Inside, you'll get plain-English explanations and easy-to-follow instruction on online business basics, legal...
Your all-access guide to reaping the benefits of Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com has a rapidly expanding influence over the way companies across the globe interact with their clientele. Written by Salesforce.com insiders with years of experience in customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, Salesforce.com For...
Anyone who knows me knows I am a maniacal sports fan. I religiously follow Major League Baseball (San Francisco Giants), NFL football (New York Giants), and NBA basketball (Boston Celtics). My knowledge of useless sports trivia has won me numerous drinks in more bars than I care to remember. I see nothing wrong with Jimmy Fallon’s...
SAP HANA is SAP's in-memory database technology, and the focal point of their next generation strategy. Using column-based storage to provide highly compressed and rapidly accessed data, a SAP HANA application can be several hundred times faster than the same application on previous generation database technology.
As the core technical foundation for the modern services science, Services Computing covers the science, technology and business models of effectively creating and leveraging computing technology to bridge the gap between business and IT services. This book systematically introduces the fundamentals of this new discipline based on the latest...
Power Query for Power BI and Excel is a book for people who are tired of copying and pasting data into Excel worksheets. Power Query, part of the Microsoft Power BI suite, is a tool that automates the process of getting data into Excel and will save you hours of dull, repetitive, and error-prone work! Power Query makes it easy to...
ANALYZE HUGE AMOUNTS OF BUSINESS DATA FASTER, MORE EASILY, AND MORE ACCURATELY!
Use Microsoft’s free PowerPivot add-in for Excel 2010 to analyze immense amounts of data from any source, perform state-of-the-art business analysis far more easily, and make better decisions in less...
Networked multiplayer games are a huge part of the games industry today. The number of
players and amount of money involved are staggering. As of 2014, League of Legends boasts
67 million active players each month. The 2015 DoTA 2 world championship has a prize pool of
over $16 million at the time of writing. The Call of Duty series,...
Data Scientists at Work is a collection of interviews with sixteen of the world's most influential and innovative data scientists from across the spectrum of this hot new profession. "Data scientist is the sexiest job in the 21st century," according to the Harvard Business Review. By 2018, the United States will...
The first year of developing a new sales territory is a daunting task—especially in dog-eat-dog industries. The traditional advice is to train quickly on product, grab a customer list, start calling for appointments, discover opportunities, and close deals. In fact, almost every sales model out there is based on nothing more than...
In the Autumn of 1983, in the face of the phenomenal growth of home computer sales in the U.K., the national British newspaper The Guardian decided to produce, each week, a 'Computer Page'. Noone was quite sure exactly what should go into the page on a regular basis, but it was thought that a fortnightly column on computer mathematics...
