This book is designed to accompany the Introduction to Salesforce Analytics - Building Reports and Dashboards class offered by Stony Point. A person reading this book or a student in this class will to build reports and dashboards utilizing basic and advanced concepts . Although the book is designed as a supplement to the class, it contains valuable exercises that will be useful for someone wishing to learn on their own. This online, five hour class is delivered by a live instructor and is specifically designed to teach administrators, business analysts or report writers how to utilize the basic and advanced analytic capabilities of Salesforce. A student in this class or reading this workbook will learn the basic Salesforce object model, and how to create and secure reports and dashboards. The instructor will lead students through exercises to create tabular, summary, matrix and join reports. Students will learn advanced reporting functionality such as charting, report summary fields, bucket fields, conditional highlighting, advanced report filters and building custom report types. Finally, the student will learn how to create and run dashboards and schedule and email reports and dashboards. Each student will be given a practice learning environment to participate in hands-on exercises during the class. The student will be able to use that learning environment indefinitely after the class without any additional fee. Stony Point is a leading provider of Salesforce training for sales people, customer service personnel, marketers, system administrators, developers and consultants. Stony Point delivers public and private classes virtually and in-person at locations throughout the world. Please visit www.stonyp.com for more information on the classes and services offered.

Follow valuable and practical recipes touring the fundamental features of Dynamics AX extension. This title is for business professionals, such as administrators and consultants, who want to take full advantage of the features of Dynamics AX. This book has a wide appeal and you do not need to be a SharePoint, database or programming expert. As long as you know a little about these elements, you will be able to take full advantage of the business efficiency created with Dynamics AX extensions.

A practical guide into the architecture and features that make up the services and components of the ESB Toolkit.This book is for experienced BizTalk developers, administrators, and architects, as well as IT managers and BizTalk business analysts. Knowledge and experience with the Toolkit is not a requirement.

This book is in the Enterprise certification series which means it is a hands-on guide with practical instruction, examples and all the information you will need to be successful in the exam, as well as 75 practice questions in the exam style. It includes practical advice on how to book the exam, approach the questions and maximize your score.

Boring presentations are not the problem. Confusing presentations are the problem. PowerPoint presentations have a bad reputation today because audiences often leave confused and unsure of what the presenter was trying to communicate. In this book I share: - My RAPIDS approach to plan and deliver a presentation the audience will understand. I show how this approach applies to the four most common types of business presentations and provide case studies of where this worked to help my clients. - Proven ways to select colors and fonts that work. - Methods for creating effective slides, including: writing the headline, selecting the best visual in each situation, using best practices to create over 30 different visuals, and preparing slides to make an impact in a presentation. - Practical steps for implementing these ideas in your own presentations, along with resources to consult and tips on evaluating your own presentations.

This book distils the hands-on approach of the training courses into a concise, practical book. The emphasis is on getting up and running fast and discovering the scope and power of Alfresco 4 incrementally through practical examples. Though this book is not a developer guide, various examples in the book will help developers to extend Alfresco functionality and to integrate Alfresco with external systems.This book is designed for experienced users, business owners, or system administrators who want to install and use Alfresco in their teams or businesses. Because Alfresco is free, many teams can install and experiment with its ECM features without any upfront cost, often without management approval. You need to have a degree of technical confidence, but you do not require specialist system admin or developer skills to get a basic system up and running.Though this book is not a developer guide, various examples in the book will help you to extend Alfresco functionality and to integrate Alfresco with external systems.

"Open Source Accounting with OpenERP" is a tutorial for accountants on how to use OpenERP to manage your company. In this book, you will learn to set up and use OpenERP to: * Keep track of invoicing and payments without doing the books * Integrate analytic accounting to report at different levels * Reconcile and pay manually or through automated interfaces * Easily control invoices based on orders or pickings / deliveries * Manage your budgets * Remind your customers through the multi-step follow up management * Measure and improve your performance through real-time information dashboards

If you're an avid e-mail user then Easy Steps to Outlook 2010 is the right book for you. It will take your communication skills to learning unlimited possibilities. This easy step learning methodology will take you to the next level with Outlook 2010. The step by step approach will maximized your skill level to take control of your Outlook 2010 functionality and focus in on ways to organized your incoming and outgoing messages, folders, sync to your mobile device and take better control of spam and junk mail. This book is packed with lots of screenshots and tips to meet you at the level of your experience and take you to a technical zone higher than you can imagine.

Oracle BPM Suite is a popular and highly capable business process management system with extensive integration capabilities. BPMN, one of the most widely used process modeling notations, includes advanced capabilities for inter-process communication, working of arrays of data, and handling exceptions. However, these very same areas are often poorly understood. This book gives you the knowledge to create professional process models using these advanced features of BPMN. "Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics" is the only book available that provides coverage of advanced BPMN topics for Oracle BPM Suite, helping to fill in the gaps left by the product documentation, and giving you the information that you need to know to use BPMN to its full potential. This book covers the important theory behind inter-process communication, working with arrays and handling exceptions in BPMN, along with detailed, step-by-step practical exercises that demonstrate and consolidate this theoretical knowledge. Throughout the book we'll cover topics including different types of sub-processes, initializing and manipulating arrays, using the multi-instance embedded sub-process, fault propagation and more. With "Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics" in hand, you'll gain detailed and practical experience in using the advanced features of BPMN to create professional BPMN processes with Oracle BPM. "Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics" is a concise tutorial which treats each topic to both a theoretical and practical approach. If you are a developer or architect working with Oracle BPM Suite 11g, this book is for you. Basic knowledge of BPM Suite and business process management in general is assumed.

In a visual and easy to read format, this book provides a complete introductory overview to SAP's ERP/ECC application. The book presents a transactional map of SAP ECC as normally deployed in a manufacturing company, followed by screen level functional summaries of key Master Data, Sales Entry, Delivery, MRP, Inventory, Production Planning, Purchasing and Systems Management transactions.

This cookbook is full of immediately useable recipes showing you how to administer System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and understand how to solve particular problems/scenarios. In addition to its cookbook style, which ensures the solutions are presented in a clear step-by-step manner, its explanations go into great detail, which makes it good learning material for everyone who has experience in System Center Configuration Manager and wants to improve. The book is designed in such a way that each recipe is presented as a separate, standalone entity and reading of other, prior recipes is not required. If you are an intermediate to advanced administrator who wants to administer System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and understand how to solve particular problems/scenarios, then this book is for you. You should have a working knowledge of System Center Configuration Manager, however, knowledge of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager is not necessarily required.

This book is written in simple, easy to understand format with lots of screenshots and step-by-step explanations. If you are an IBM WebSphere Portal developer, looking to develop and enhance enterprise portals by understanding the complete portal project lifecycle, then this is the best guide for you. This book assumes that you have a fundamental knowledge of working in the WebSphere Portal environment.

Written in easy to follow manner, this book is a complete guide to Document capture with Ephesoft,This book is intended for information technology professionals interested in installing and configuring Ephesoft for their organization, but it is a valuable resource for anyone interested in learning about document capture in general.

This Certification guide will follow a step-by-step approach to instruct the reader what they need to know to be able to become certified with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. If you will implement Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, this book is for you. You should have a working knowledge of Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office.

Big Data Analytics with R and Hadoop is a tutorial style book that focuses on all the powerful big data tasks that can be achieved by integrating R and Hadoop.This book is ideal for R developers who are looking for a way to perform big data analytics with Hadoop. This book is also aimed at those who know Hadoop and want to build some intelligent applications over Big data with R packages. It would be helpful if readers have basic knowledge of R.

Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. This book is a practical Packt How-to guide that is designed to provide targeted information for experienced BPM professionals in the financial sector. This book will be ideal as a pocket guide for people working with BPM for financial services. It is a short reference for financial analysts, business process owners, process participants, business process developers, and SOA and BPM architects and developers.

Applied Microsoft Excel (shortly called App-XL) is strictly an application of Spreadsheet tech book with problems applications in the field of Business, Finance, Economics, and Statistical works. The key topics are Data Analysis and Management tools, Financial and Investment Analyzes, Basic Statistics in Economic and Business Application, Advance Statistics for Data Analysis of Research works, Resources Optimization with MS Excel, including others. The key FUNCTIONS and TOOLS are: Pivot Table, and Chart for table data analysis and management, Solver for Linear Programming, Analysis Toolpak for advance statistical works, Basic Statistics tools for Measure of Central Tendency and Dispersion, Data Analysis with chart, Slope and Intercept for Market Equilibrium Analysis, Finance, and Investment tools like DDB, SNL, SYD, FV, PMT, IPMT, PPMT, PV, RATE, IRR, and NPV. It is prepared for MS Excel Users (MEUs) and MS Excel Beginners (MEBs). The name "Applied" is associated with the book due to its attribute of personal practical and real world work Applications in Statistics, Economics, Business, and Finance. It is very friendly in use, consists community (i.e. forums) technical support, open to all MEUs and MEBs, and as well been accompanied with App-XL Solution Pack 1.0.0 downloadable zip file.

This is a Packt Cookbook, full with over 75 recipes for VMM users to carry out vital tasks quickly and easily. This book is written for solutions architects, technical consultants, administrators, and any other virtualization lover who needs to use Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager in a real world environment.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Scripting Cookbook is full of immediately useable recipes showing you how far you can take customization in Dynamics. While the book is structured so that each recipe can be tackled separately, for novice users it is recommended to follow through all the recipes in the order in which they are presented. This book is for those new to Dynamics CRM and for business analysts interested in gaining additional product specific knowledge. Stepping through the first chapters will introduce you to the customization process and give you enough knowledge to start looking into more advanced topics. Developers and web designers of another CRM product will see how their skills can be easily adapted to start customizing Dynamics CRM 2011. You should be familiar with the basic concepts of what a CRM system is and does. Additional knowledge of the current or a previous version of Dynamics CRM will help, but is not necessary.

This book is written in the style of a cookbook, with emphasis on practical, step-by-step recipes augmented with real screenshots and little to no theory. This approach will help you follow each step, each link, and see the bigger picture,If you are a user with basic knowledge of Cognos BI (any version) and want to learn the advanced and latest dashboarding capabilities shipped with IBM Cognos BI, this book is for you.

A New Data Warehousing Strategy, Methodology and Guide to the Free Ready Made Template for Full Supply Chain and Sales & Operations Reporting

"Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook" is a quick, non-technical reference for business executives who need to get up to speed with SharePoint and understand how to make the right decision about implementations. With an easy to absorb Q&A approach and short bite size chapters focused on defined SharePoint subjects, the book follows specific SharePoint situations drawn from real world experience, enabling you to learn from anecdotes and case studies along the way. "Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook" is the perfect companion for business executives or non-technical team leaders who don't want to trawl through a detailed, hands-on functionality guide to get up to speed with SharePoint. If you simply need to understand important implementation decisions or have the confidence to challenge your technical team on an approach, this book will prepare you to ask the right questions and make the right decisions. No prior knowledge of SharePoint is required.

Artificial neural networks are suitable for many tasks in pattern recognition and machine learning. Unlike conventional techniques for time series analysis, an artificial neural network needs little information about the time series data and can be applied to a broad range of problems. The usage of artificial neural networks for time series analysis relies purely on the data that were observed. As Radial Basis networks with one hidden layer is capable of approximating any measurable function. An artificial neural network is powerful enough to represent any form of time series. The capability to generalize allows artificial neural networks to learn even in the case of noisy and/or missing data. Another advantage over linear models is the network's ability to represent nonlinear time series. Prediction of tides is very much essential for human activities and to reduce the construction cost in marine environment. This book presents an application of the artificial neural network with Radial basis function for accurate prediction of tides. This neural network model predicts the time series data of hourly tides directly while using an an efficient learning process.

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Development Cookbook' is full of immediately useable recipes showing you how to manage your company's ERP information and operations efficiently, and solve your business process problems in an effective and quick way. This book contains a list of useful Dynamics AX modifications - recipes - along with all required code and in-depth explanations. Most of the recipes are presented using real-world examples in a variety of Dynamics AX modules. In addition to its cookbook style, which ensures the solutions are presented in a clear step-by-step manner, its explanations go into great detail, which makes it good learning material for everyone who has experience in Dynamics AX and wants to improve. The book is designed in such a way that most of the recipes are presented as separate, standalone entities and reading of other, prior recipes is not required. Some recipes however, are extensions of the prior ones. If you are a Dynamics AX developer who is primarily focused on delivering time-proven application modifications, then this book is for you. Although new X++ developers will find this book useful, this book is focused more towards developers who already know the basics of Dynamics AX programming and want to step up to the next level and at the same time learn the functional aspects of Dynamics AX. Some Dynamics AX coding experience is expected.