Business intelligence (BI) has been around for many more years than you might think.
Decision support systems (DSS) and executive information systems (EIS) from the 1970s and
1980s, along with artificial intelligence (AI) systems from the 1990s, can now all be considered
as part of what BI comprises today.
Welcome to JavaScript! Using this easyto-
learn programming language, you’ll be
able to add pizzazz to your Web pages and
make them more useful for you and for your
site’s visitors. We’ve written this book as a
painless introduction to JavaScript, so you
don’t have to be a geek or a nerd to write a...
The intention of this book is to provide a thorough reference for those considering a migration
into the virtualized world. The majority of our target readers will likely be seasoned system
administrators and engineers who grew up in and still manage primarily a hardware-based
server environment containing a large assortment of both...
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...
Approximation algorithms have developed in response to the impossibility of solving
a great variety of important optimization problems. Too frequently, when attempting to
get a solution for a problem, one is confronted with the fact that the problem is NP-haid.
This, in the words of Garey and Johnson, means "I can't find an...
We are deluged by data—scientific data, medical data, demographic data, financial
data, and marketing data. People have no time to look at this data. Human
attention has become a precious resource. So, we must find ways to automatically
analyze the data, to automatically classify it, to automatically summarize it, to...
The Definitive Guide to Governing Shared Services and SOA Projects
SOA Governance: Governing Shared Services On-Premise and in the Cloud is the result of a multi-year project to collect proven industry practices for establishing IT governance controls specific to the adoption of SOA...
So you’ve decided to be a photographer. You studied photography in
college or went to art school, and you’ve come to the point of deciding
that it’s time to hang out your shingle. Or maybe you’re self-taught and
everyone loves your work and says, “Hey, you could make...
MATLAB® is a very popular language for technical computing used by
students, engineers, and scientists in universities, research institutes, and industries
all over the world. The software is popular because it is powerful and easy to
use. For university freshmen in it can be thought of as the next tool to use after the
graphic...
We are very pleased to present this fifth edition of Project Management for Information Systems. As with its predecessors, our ‘target audience’ fall into four groups:
IS project managers and systems developers who find themselves responsible for managing systems projects. Newcomers to this activity will find...
SAS is not difficult to learn, but it is a lot to learn. There are so many different SAS products,
procedures, and options that it’s difficult to know where to start, and it’s easy to invest a lot of
time in learning before you reach the point of being able to use SAS effectively to do really useful
work.
