“This book is much more than you may think it is. Scale is not just about designing Web sites that don’t crash when lots of users show up. It is about designing your company so that it doesn’t crash when your business needs to grow. These guys have been there on the front lines of some of the most...

• The 12th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support (BPMDS 2011) • The 16th...

Infopath 2003 is a new addition to Microsoft Office that streamlines the process of gathering, sharing, and using information, by enabling teams and organizations to create, share and work with rich, dynamic forms. The information gathered is easily reusable throughout organizations and across multiple processes because the native file...

Why, you might ask, did I decide to write an entire book about Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and enterprise development? After all, enterprise development usually conjures up pictures of industrial strength computer systems, something Visual Basic has not traditionally been associated with. First of all, Visual Basic .NET is more...

Redundant employees. Storerooms full of extra stock "in case we need it." Marketing money sprayed in all directions in the vain hope it will create customers. Duplicate IT systems. HR policies that fatten the corporate waistline rather than keeping it trim. Budgeting exercises that result in "more of the same, plus...