Explore the latest features of Dynamics 365 and Power Platform's out-of-the-box tools to build custom business solutions for your organization Key Features Discover impressive Dynamics 365 features to transform your business and increase productivity Leverage the platform's extensibility to meet your organizational needs Understand how Power Platform powers Dynamics 365 and enhances its integration capabilities Book DescriptionMicrosoft Dynamics 365 provides a vast array of tools and applications to meet various Customer Engagement requirements. This Customer Relationship Management (CRM) guide covers the latest advancements in Dynamics 365 and Power Platform that help organizations adapt to changing market conditions for agility and resilience. With this book, you'll explore the core platform functionality of Dynamics 365 and explore its wide range of components for transforming your business with new services and capabilities. You'll learn the basics of configuration and customization to enhance the functionality of Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM and create solutions and custom applications by leveraging features such as apps, portals, automation, and business intelligence. As you advance, you'll understand how Power Platform drives Dynamics 365 and how various integration capabilities add value by providing a comprehensive view of data aggregated across different systems and data sources. Finally, you'll delve into core administration concepts that will help you to manage extensions added to the platform. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to tailor Microsoft Dynamics 365 to fit your organization's requirements and tweak the platform to meet your business needs. What you will learn Get to grips with Power Platform for building and enhancing Dynamics 365 apps Integrate Dynamics 365 CRM with Microsoft 365, Azure, and other platforms Discover how you can customize existing entities and create new ones Explore various security features and grant users access to CRM data and functions Find out which CRM attributes are used to automate operations with programming Use internal and external social data to help users to make informed decisions Who this book is forThis book is for customers and project stakeholders, new functional consultants, business administration users, and project managers looking to get up and running with the latest features of Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. This guide will help non-developers become acquainted with a no-code approach to customization and configuration. A basic understanding of relational data and customer management concepts will help you get the most out of this book.

Over 70 recipes to effectively apply DevOps best practices and implement Agile, Git, CI-CD & Test automation using Azure DevOps Server (TFS) 2019 Key Features Learn improving code quality using pull requests, branch policies, githooks and git branching design Accelerate the deployment of high quality software by automating build and releases using CI-CD Pipelines. Learn tried and tested techniques to automate database deployments, App Service & Function Deployments in Azure. Book DescriptionAzure DevOps Server, previously known as Team Foundation Server (TFS), is a comprehensive on-premise DevOps toolset with a rich ecosystem of open source plugins. This book is your one stop guide to learn how to effectively use all of these Azure DevOps services to go from zero to DevOps. You will start by building high-quality scalable software targeting .NET, .NET core or Node.js applications. You will learn techniques that will help you to set up end-to-end traceability of your code changes from design through to release. Whether you are deploying software on-premise or in the cloud in App Service, Functions, or Azure VMs, this book will help you learn release management techniques to reduce release failures. Next, you will be able to secure application configuration by using Azure KeyVault. You will also learn how to create and release extensions to the Azure DevOps marketplace and reach million developer ecosystem for feedback. The working extension samples will allow you to iterate changes in your extensions easily and release updates to the marketplace quickly. By the end of this book, techniques provided in the book will help you break down the invisible silos between your software development teams. This will transform you from being a good software development team to an elite modern cross functional software development team. What you will learn Set up a team project for an Agile delivery team, importing requirements from Excel Plan,track, and monitor progress using self updating boards, Sprint and Kanban boards Unlock the features of Git by using branch policies, Git pull requests, forks, and Git hooks Build and release .NET core, SQL and Node.js applications using Azure Pipeline Automate testing by integrating Microsoft and open source testing frameworks Extend Azure DevOps Server to a million developer ecosystem Who this book is forThis book is for anyone looking to succeed with DevOps. The techniques in this book apply to all roles of the software development lifecycle including developers, testers, architects, configuration analysts, site reliability engineers and release managers. If you are a new user you'll learn how to get started; if you are an experienced user you'll learn how to launch your project into a modern and mature DevOps enabled software development team.

Get to grips with the advanced features of Apex programming for Salesforce developers using this comprehensive guide Key Features Discover how to build reliable applications with Apex by avoiding common mistakes and pitfalls Learn how to use the different asynchronous programming tools in Apex Profile and improve the performance of your Apex code Book DescriptionAs applications built on the Salesforce platform are now a key part of many organizations, developers are shifting focus to Apex, Salesforce's proprietary programming language. As a Salesforce developer, it is important to understand the range of tools at your disposal, how and when to use them, and best practices for working with Apex. Mastering Apex Programming will help you explore the advanced features of Apex programming and guide you in delivering robust solutions that scale. This book starts by taking you through common Apex mistakes, debugging, exception handling, and testing. You'll then discover different asynchronous Apex programming options and develop custom Apex REST web services. The book shows you how to define and utilize Batch Apex, Queueable Apex, and Scheduled Apex using common scenarios before teaching you how to define, publish, and consume platform events and RESTful endpoints with Apex. Finally, you'll learn how to profile and improve the performance of your Apex application, including architecture trade-offs. With code examples used to facilitate discussion throughout, by the end of the book, you'll have developed the skills needed to build robust and scalable applications in Apex. What you will learn Understand common coding mistakes in Apex and how to avoid them using best practices Find out how to debug a Salesforce Apex application effectively Explore different asynchronous Apex options and their common use cases Discover tips to work effectively with platform events Develop custom Apex REST services to allow inbound integrations Build complex logic and processes on the Salesforce platform Who this book is forThis book is for Salesforce developers who are interested in mastering Apex programming skills. You'll also find this book helpful if you're an experienced Java or C# developer looking to switch to Apex programming for developing apps on the Salesforce platform. Basic Apex programming knowledge is essential to understand the concepts covered.

Quickly build and deploy machine learning models without managing infrastructure, and improve productivity using Amazon SageMaker's capabilities such as Amazon SageMaker Studio, Autopilot, Experiments, Debugger, and Model Monitor Key Features Build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly using Amazon SageMaker Analyze, detect, and receive alerts relating to various business problems using machine learning algorithms and techniques Improve productivity by training and fine-tuning machine learning models in production Book DescriptionAmazon SageMaker enables you to quickly build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models at scale, without managing any infrastructure. It helps you focus on the ML problem at hand and deploy high-quality models by removing the heavy lifting typically involved in each step of the ML process. This book is a comprehensive guide for data scientists and ML developers who want to learn the ins and outs of Amazon SageMaker. You'll understand how to use various modules of SageMaker as a single toolset to solve the challenges faced in ML. As you progress, you'll cover features such as AutoML, built-in algorithms and frameworks, and the option for writing your own code and algorithms to build ML models. Later, the book will show you how to integrate Amazon SageMaker with popular deep learning libraries such as TensorFlow and PyTorch to increase the capabilities of existing models. You'll also learn to get the models to production faster with minimum effort and at a lower cost. Finally, you'll explore how to use Amazon SageMaker Debugger to analyze, detect, and highlight problems to understand the current model state and improve model accuracy. By the end of this Amazon book, you'll be able to use Amazon SageMaker on the full spectrum of ML workflows, from experimentation, training, and monitoring to scaling, deployment, and automation. What you will learn Create and automate end-to-end machine learning workflows on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Become well-versed with data annotation and preparation techniques Use AutoML features to build and train machine learning models with AutoPilot Create models using built-in algorithms and frameworks and your own code Train computer vision and NLP models using real-world examples Cover training techniques for scaling, model optimization, model debugging, and cost optimization Automate deployment tasks in a variety of configurations using SDK and several automation tools Who this book is forThis book is for software engineers, machine learning developers, data scientists, and AWS users who are new to using Amazon SageMaker and want to build high-quality machine learning models without worrying about infrastructure. Knowledge of AWS basics is required to grasp the concepts covered in this book more effectively. Some understanding of machine learning concepts and the Python programming language will also be beneficial.

Create innovative informatics solutions with TIBCO Spotfire Key Features Get to grips with a variety of TIBCO Spotfire features to create professional applications Use different data and visualization techniques to build interactive analyses. Simplify BI processes and understand data analysis and visualization Book DescriptionThe need for agile business intelligence (BI) is growing daily, and TIBCO Spotfire (R) combines self-service features with essential enterprise governance and scaling capabilities to provide best-practice analytics solutions. Spotfire is easy and intuitive to use and is a rewarding environment for all BI users and analytics developers. Starting with data and visualization concepts, this book takes you on a journey through increasingly advanced topics to help you work toward becoming a professional analytics solution provider. Examples of analyzing real-world data are used to illustrate how to work with Spotfire. Once you've covered the AI-driven recommendations engine, you'll move on to understanding Spotfire's rich suite of visualizations and when, why and how you should use each of them. In later chapters, you'll work with location analytics, advanced analytics using TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R (R), how to decide whether to use in-database or in-memory analytics, and how to work with streaming (live) data in Spotfire. You'll also explore key product integrations that significantly enhance Spotfire's capabilities.This book will enable you to exploit the advantages of the Spotfire serve topology and learn how to make practical use of scheduling and routing rules. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to build and use powerful analytics dashboards and applications, perform spatial analytics, and be able to administer your Spotfire environment efficiently What you will learn Work with Spotfire on its web, Cloud, PC, Mac and mobile clients Deploy Spotfire's suite of visualization types effectively and intelligently Build user-friendly analytics frameworks and analytics applications Explore Spotfire's predictive analytics capabilities Use Spotfire's location analytics capabilities to create interactive spatial analyses Write IronPython scripts with the Spotfire API Learn the different ways Spotfire can be deployed and administered Who this book is forIf you are a business intelligence or data professional, this book will give you a solid grounding in the use of TIBCO Spotfire. This book requires no prior knowledge of Spotfire or any basic data and visualization concepts.

Gain a 360-degree view of Microsoft Power Platform and combine the benefits of Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate, Azure, and Dynamics 365 to build an enterprise application platform for your organization Key Features Explore various Microsoft cloud components and find out how they can enhance your Power Platform solutions Get to grips with Microsoft Power Platform's security and extensibility, integration, and data migration models Discover architectural best practices for designing complex enterprise solutions Book DescriptionFor forward-looking architects and decision makers who want to craft complex solutions to serve growing business needs, Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture offers an array of architectural best practices and techniques. With this book, you'll learn how to design robust software using the tools available in the Power Platform suite and be able to integrate them seamlessly with various Microsoft 365 and Azure components. Unlike most other resources that are overwhelmingly long and unstructured, this book covers essential concepts using concise yet practical examples to help you save time. You'll develop the skills you need to architect, design, and manage a complex solution as you follow the journey of a fictitious enterprise customer as they enter the world of Power Platform. Throughout the book, you'll discover how to combine the functionality of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents with various methodologies to effectively address application lifecycle management, security, and extensibility. Finally, you'll learn how to overcome common challenges in migrating data to and from Microsoft Power Platform using proven techniques. By the end of this book, you'll have the strategic perspective of an enterprise architect to make accurate architectural decisions for your complex Power Platform projects. What you will learn Understand various Dynamics 365 CRM, ERP, and AI modules for creating Power Platform solutions Enhance Power Platform with Microsoft 365 and Azure Find out which regions, staging environments, and user licensing groups need to be employed when creating enterprise solutions Implement sophisticated security by using various authentication and authorization techniques Extend Power Apps, Power BI, and Power Automate to create custom applications Integrate your solution with various in-house Microsoft components or third-party systems using integration patterns Who this book is forThis book is for enterprise architects and technical decision makers who want to craft complex solutions using Microsoft Power Platform to serve growing business needs and to stay competitive in the modern IT world. A basic understanding of Microsoft Power Platform will help you to get started with this book.

Explore a wide range of low-code tools in the Salesforce platform for building customized CRM applications without writing any code Key Features Create apps with a rich user experience without paying for costly developers Leverage Salesforce Lightning Platform's declarative features to build professional-grade applications Improve productivity with business process automation using Workflow, Process Builder, and Flow Book DescriptionLow-code platforms allow users to focus on business logic to create solutions without getting trapped in programming complexities. Thanks to its powerful features for designing, developing, and deploying apps without having to hand-code, Salesforce is at the forefront of the low-code development revolution. This book will guide you in building creative applications for solving your business problems using the declarative framework provided by Salesforce. You'll start by learning how to design your business data model with custom objects, fields, formulas, and validation rules, all secured by the Salesforce security model. You'll then explore tools such as Workflow, Process Builder, Lightning Flow, and Actions that will help you to automate your business processes with ease. This book also shows you how to use Lightning App Builder to build personalized UIs for your Salesforce applications, explains the value of creating community pages for your organization, and teaches you how to customize them with Experience Builder. Finally, you'll work with the sandbox model, deploy your solutions, and deliver an effective release management strategy. By the end of this Salesforce book, you'll be ready to customize Salesforce CRM to meet your business requirements by creating unique solutions without writing a single line of code. What you will learn Get to grips with the fundamentals of data modeling to enhance data quality Deliver dynamic configuration capabilities using custom settings and metadata types Secure your data by implementing the Salesforce security model Customize Salesforce applications with Lightning App Builder Create impressive pages for your community using Experience Builder Use Data Loader to import and export data without writing any code Embrace the Salesforce Ohana culture to share knowledge and learn from the global Salesforce community Who this book is forIf you are a citizen developer, business analyst, Salesforce administrator, or anyone interested in developing applications or solutions for business problems but lack technical knowledge, this book is for you. No prior programming experience is required.