Each recipe comprises step-by-step instructions followed by an analysis of what was done in each task and other useful information. It is packed with useful screenshots to make your learning even easier. The book emphasizes on a learn-by-example approach so as to maximize learning. The book is intended for prospective TM1 developers or analysts who want to successfully build and manage a complete planning, budgeting and forecasting solution with IBM Cognos TM1. No previous knowledge of TM1 is expected. Existing TM1 users and developers will also benefit from the practical recipes covered in the book.

A practical tutorial, this book shows you how to set up and configure Dynamics AX 2009 and then how to improve and maintain its performance with clear step-by-step instructions, enabling Dynamics AX to fit your company's needs. If you are a network administrator or IT personnel charged with setting up and configuring Dynamics AX 2009 in your company, then this book is for you. A basic knowledge of Dynamics AX 2009 and general Windows Server Administration is required and familiarity with maintaining a SQL Server database server. Additionally, if you are a VAR tasked with implementing Dynamics AX into companies, then this book will provide you with a good overview and details of the whole Dynamics AX 2009 system.

This book follows a step-by-step approach to learning the building blocks of SharePoint application development. This book focuses on SharePoint 2010 development using Visual studio 2010. The book provides a hands-on approach to solving problems and creating business solutions for enhancing SharePoint 2010 environment. This book is for .NET developers to understand the building blocks for SharePoint 2010. Although the book can be used by beginners, it is recommended to have understanding of the previous versions of SharePoint. Developing SharePoint solutions needs solid understanding of ASP.NET architecture. The book assumes that the reader is familiar with ASP.NET technology and development concepts.

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.

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.

An in-depth Oracle Press guide to Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine

Written by Oracle ACE Director Mark Rittman, this e-book offers comprehensive coverage of Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, the best-in-class, preintegrated BI platform. After an overview of the product and its capabilities, you'll get complete details on installation, configuration, administration, maintenance, and creation of the in-memory adaptive data mart that powers the "speed‑ of‑thought" dashboards. Expert tips for integrating with both Oracle and non-Oracle enterprise data sources are included. Enable your organization to analyze large amounts of data via rich, visual dashboards using Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine and this Oracle Press guide.

This step-by-step tutorial will take you through Oracle PeopleSoft Financial Management 9.1 and show you how to implement it into your business. It is written in an easy-to-read style, with a strong emphasis on real-world, practical examples with step-by-step explanations. This book will establish a solid foundation for your efforts to become a successful PeopleSoft Financials practitioner. If you are a functional implementation analyst, a business analyst, or a business user who plans to start using PeopleSoft applications, this book is for you. Reading this book will equip you with the basic skills to configure and maintain PeopleSoft financial applications.

This book is a tutorial guide that illustrates the steps needed to install, configure, deploy, and administer Dynamics NAV. It shows you how to get started with Dynamics NAV and then gradually explains other admin tasks such as backing up and performance tuning, using practical examples. If you want to get started in administering Dynamics NAV, this book is for you. Readers do not need any previous experience with Dynamics NAV.

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The Internet is considered among one of those inventions of modern age which have just revolutionized the world. It's most powerful & versatile source of knowledge for every common man today. It has touched every aspect of our life. Be it some delicate medical condition, be it decorating your home and diet of your loving pets, be it finding the whereabouts of one of your dearest friend of your school, be it very personal problem in your life and many more; information pertaining to anything and everything that we can think of, can be obtained through the Internet.

In this book, You will be introduced with the masterminds who were behind the idea of creating a world at the back of a monitor screen. From just an idea, they have created technology that has brought about a difference in our lives. They who made our life easier by making our day to day work just a few click away. They who brought us close to our dear ones. They are referred to "Kings of Internet." They are the ones who took the technology to common hands with the powerful tools they have invented and transformed Internet into huge market place. Here we are trying to honor those Kings with few sentences on their early life, their struggle, the achievement they have made and their future place for us.

"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.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: Dashboards Cookbook is packed with practical step-by-step recipes covering tasks which utilize all of the new dashboard features of Dynamics CRM 2011. If you are a developer who is excited about creating, customizing, and designing Dashboards in Dynamics CRM 2011, this book is for you. You should be comfortable with general Dynamics CRM functionality for this or a previous release. This book may also be valuable to End Users and Power Users interested in the new Dashboard features of this release.

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.

This book exposes the SAP experts' eye on an emerging solution i.e. OpenERP. It puts into perspective the advantages of their implementation methodologies, the differences in the features, customization approaches, etc. SAP users will discover in this book how OpenERP solves the same problems as SAP but with a totally different approach and point of view. At the other end, OpenERP users will discover what makes SAP the world leader in the enterprise management software market. In this book you will learn: * how to assess differently OpenERP and SAP based on your specific needs, * where are the costs of an OpenERP or SAP implementation, * the advantages of different implementation methodologies: ASAP vs Agile, * what makes SAP such a good and popular product, * why recent technologies may change the "old" ERP market.

This book provides a practical, hands-on experience. Chapter by chapter, a Siebel CRM self-study environment is created which can be used to follow the examples described in the book to explore the Siebel functionality. The book ensures that you understand what you are doing and why you are doing it. It contains clear step-by-step instructions, explanatory tables, screenshots, and precise diagrams. This book is for administrators who want to develop and strengthen their Siebel CRM skills in the areas of installation and system management. Whether you are a novice or a more experienced user, this book will teach you something new in many ways and by the end of the book, you will be ready to install and manage Siebel CRM in a real-world environment.

This is a business-oriented, non-technical book for managers of software and technology companies to gain an understanding of markets outside the U.S. and considerations for starting up sales in those countries. It divides the world into the following regions for analysis: United States (U.S.) Europe East Asia Latin America Canada, Australia, New Zealand The Rest of World: Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Israel, United Arab Emirates (UAE). It explores and ranks, compares and contrasts the 40 countries from the regions above on 4 Dimensions: Wealth as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) Acceptance of technology Acceptance of English as a language of commerce The technology sales and buying culture Then it outlines considerations for enterprise software and technology vendors to expand their sales, channels and go-to-market capabilities outside the U.S.

"Any reader" who is just interested in learning more about the business and technology climates of more than 30 countries will find this book interesting and useful.

If you want help developing a customized plan for your international launch for software or other technology products or services, see http: //intl-rev-acceleration.com/. This site also has lots more international resources.

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 book doesn't assume any prior experience with Dynamics NAV reporting. It is designed as an easy to follow guide, where each chapter builds upon the previous one, but can also be read completely separately. Basically this book is for everyone who is using Microsoft Dynamics NAV or has an interest on the reporting capabilities of NAV 2009. The book does not have major prerequisites, although it is mainly focused on Dynamics NAV 2009, RDLC and Business Intelligence. Whether you are a Dynamics NAV consultant, developer, customer, project manager, or just interested in the reporting capabilities of Dynamics NAV, this book can provide you with information from a helicopter view down to the smallest details, tips and tricks, and workarounds. Empowered with the information in this book you should be able to master, analyse and deliver the most challenging reporting requirements in Dynamics NAV.

For anyone who wants to be operating at a high level with the Excel Solver quickly, this is the book for you. Step-By-Step Optimization With Excel Solver is more than 200+ pages of simple yet thorough explanations on how to use the Excel Solver to solve today's most widely known optimization problems. Loaded with screen shots that are coupled with easy-to-follow instructions, this book will simplify many difficult optimization problems and make you a master of the Excel Solver almost immediately. Here are just some of the Solver optimization problems that are solved completely with simple-to-understand instructions and screen shots in this book: The famous "Traveling Salesman" problem using Solver's Alldifferent constraint and the Solver's Evolutionary method to find the shortest path to reach all customers. This also provides an advanced use of the Excel INDEX function. The well-known "Knapsack Problem" which shows how optimize the use of limited space while satisfying numerous other criteria. How to perform nonlinear regression and curve-fitting on the Solver using the Solver's GRG Nonlinear solving method. How to solve the "Cutting Stock Problem" faced by many manufacturing companies who are trying to determine the optimal way to cut sheets of material to minimize waste while satisfying customer orders. Portfolio optimization to maximize return or minimize risk. Venture capital investment selection using the Solver's Binary constraint to maximize Net Present Value of selected cash flows at year 0. Clever use of the If-Then-Else statements makes this a simple problem. How use Solver to minimize the total cost of purchasing and shipping goods from multiple suppliers to multiple locations. How to optimize the selection of different production machine to minimize cost while fulfilling an order. How to optimally allocate a marketing budget to generate the greatest reach and frequency or number of inbound leads at the lowest cost. Step-By-Step Optimization With Excel Solver has complete instructions and numerous tips on every aspect of operating the Excel Solver. You'll fully understand the reports and know exactly how to tweek all of the Solver's settings for total custom use. The book also provides lots of inside advice and guidance on setting up the model in Excel so that it will be as simple and intuitive as possible to work with. All of the optimization problems in this book are solved step-by-step using a 6-step process that works every time. In addition to detailed screen shots and easy-to-follow explanations on how to solve every optimization problem in the book, a link is provided to download an Excel workbook that has all problems completed exactly as they are in this book. Step-By-Step Optimization With Excel Solver is exactly the book you need if you want to be optimizing at an advanced level with the Excel Solver quickly.

"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

Pro SharePoint 2010 Administration is a practical guide to SharePoint 2010 for intermediate to advanced SharePoint administrators and power users, covering the out-of-the-box feature set and capabilities of Microsoft's collaboration and business productivity platform. SharePoint 2010 is an incredibly complex product, with many moving parts, new features, best practices, and gotchas. Author Rob Garrett distills SharePoint's portfolio of features, capabilities, and utilities into an in-depth professional guide - with no fluff and copious advice - that is designed from scratch to be the manual Microsoft never wrote. Starting with a detailed deployment and initial configuration walkthrough, the book covers all major feature areas, including document management, social computing, metadata management, and administration. You'll also learn about planning for capacity, backup administration and disaster recovery, business intelligence, monitoring, and more. Unlike other books, Pro SharePoint 2010 Administration covers all elements of the product, but has a specific emphasis on features new and enhanced in the 2010 release. Pro SharePoint 2010 Administration is the only book you'll need as you set out to deploy and administer SharePoint 2010. What you'll learn * Install SharePoint 2010 quickly and easily * Manage and configure SharePoint using the central administration console * Setup a suitable site structure, navigation model, and metadata * Configure search * Harness the power of social computing, document management, and business intelligence using out of the box features * Use SharePoint to implement online processes, and integrate line of business systems Who this book is for Pro SharePoint 2010 Administration is for IT professionals who set up or build SharePoint implementations. It is aimed at administrators and advanced power users who are responsible for SharePoint in a professional capacity. It is written for the type of person who will install and configure SharePoint, and then build a SharePoint implementation using the out-of-the-box features. Pro SharePoint 2010 Administration is the perfect book for advanced users who wish to build intranets, extranets, or Web sites using SharePoint 2010 functionality.Table of Contents * SharePoint 2010 Overview * Installing and Configuring SharePoint 2010 * Security and Policy * People and Profiles * Social Networking * Site Content and Metadata * Document and Records Management * Business Intelligence * Microsoft Office Integration * Health, Monitoring, and Disaster Recovery

Want to start working in SAP?Breaking into SAP shows you how to get a job - fast There is a vibrant and global marketplace for those who have the right skills in SAP. But jobs for newcomers to the industry remain elusive. So how do you get started? Rather than spend a small fortune on expensive training and certifications of questionable value, Breaking into SAP suggests a more sensible route.Breaking into SAP acknowledges the recent changes in the way global corporations hire and retain talent, and helps shift the balance of the power back to individual job seekers. Because breaking into the field of SAP in these competitive times requires more than just a list of certification exam questions, more than a walk-through of standard SAP transactions. You need advice from a recognized leader in SAP who understands the SAP career landscape, and frankly, you need someone other than a recruiter to teach you how to move into this highly lucrative field.Jim Stewart's Breaking into SAP is the book you need if you want to understand exactly what it takes to move into the field of SAP.Breaking into SAP SD includes: How to obtain the experience needed to start working in SAPReal-life problems and solutions encountered on SAP implementationsDetailed functional and technical questions, answers and explanationsSAP careers: from permanent employment to consulting and contracting

Want to start working in SAP? Breaking into SAP shows you how to get a job - fast There is a vibrant and global marketplace for those who have the right skills in SAP. But jobs for newcomers to the industry remain elusive. So how do you get started? Rather than spend a small fortune on expensive training and certifications of questionable value, Breaking into SAP suggests a more sensible route. Breaking into SAP acknowledges the recent changes in the way global corporations hire and retain talent, and helps shift the balance of the power back to individual job seekers. Because breaking into the field of SAP in these competitive times requires more than just a list of certification exam questions, more than a walk-through of standard SAP transactions. You need advice from a recognized leader in SAP who understands the SAP career landscape, and frankly, you need someone other than a recruiter to teach you how to move into this highly lucrative field. Jim Stewart's Breaking into SAP is the book you need if you want to understand exactly what it takes to move into the field of SAP. Breaking into SAP MM includes: How to obtain the experience needed to start working in SAP Real-life problems and solutions encountered on SAP implementations Detailed functional and technical questions, answers and explanations SAP careers: from permanent employment to consulting and contracting