Der Wettbewerb findet zukunftig zwischen Supply Chains statt. Was die Grunde dafur sind und welche Konsequenzen sich daraus fur Unternehmen ergeben, macht der Autor in dem Band deutlich. Er vermittelt die wesentlichen Grundlagen der Strukturierung und Optimierung der Lieferkette und erlautert in nachvollziehbarer Form, was Fuhrungskrafte uber Prozesse in der Beschaffung, Fertigung, Lagerung und Logistik wissen mussen. Wesentliche Aspekte aus Forschung und Praxis sowie deren Zusammenhange und Auswirkungen werden anschaulich und pragnant beschrieben."

SAPCOOKBOOK Training Tutorials are designed to help you understand what you need to know to get started working in SAP. Written from the end-user's perspective, SAPCOOKBOOK SAP Training Resource Guides and Training Tutorials provide step-by-step instruction on how to execute the critical transactions in each functional area of SAP. This is not a 1000-page encyclopedia filled with obscure configuration items that you will never use - this book shows you what people actually do in the SAP system, and how to do it better. Michael Martinez will help you understand the document flow and the business process steps you need to work in the exciting area of SAP. SAPCOOKBOOK Training Tutorials are the fastest way to learn SAP, period.

SAPCOOKBOOK Training Tutorials are designed to help you understand what you need to know to get started working in SAP. Written from the end-user's perspective, SAPCOOKBOOK SAP Training Resource Guides and Training Tutorials provide step-by-step instruction on how to execute the critical transactions in each functional area of SAP. This is not a 1000-page encyclopedia filled with obscure configuration items that you will never use - this book shows you what people actually do in the SAP system, and how to do it better. Michael Martinez will help you understand the document flow and the business process steps you need to work in the exciting area of SAP. SAPCOOKBOOK Training Tutorials are the fastest way to learn SAP, period.

SAPCOOKBOOK Training Tutorial Guides are designed to help you understand what you need to know to get started working in SAP. Written from the end-user's perspective, SAPCOOKBOOK Resource Manuals and Essentials guides provide step-by-step instruction on how to execute the critical transactions in each functional area of SAP. This is not a 1000-page encyclopedia filled with obscure configuration items that you will never use - this book shows you what people actually do in the SAP system, and how to do it better. Michael Martinez will help you understand the document flow and the business process steps you need to work in the exciting area of SAP. SAPCOOKBOOK Training Tutorial Guides are the fastest way to learn SAP, period.

SAPCOOKBOOK Training Tutorials Guides are designed to help you understand what you need to know to get started working in SAP. Written from the end-user's perspective, SAPCOOKBOOK Resource Manuals and Training Tutorials guides provide step-by-step instruction on how to execute the critical transactions in each functional area of SAP. This is not a 1000-page encyclopedia filled with obscure configuration items that you will never use - this book shows you what people actually do in the SAP system, and how to do it faster. Michael Martinez will help you understand the document flow and the business process steps you need to work in the exciting area of SAP. SAPCOOKBOOK Training Tutorials Guides are the fastest way to learn SAP, period.

SAPCOOKBOOK Training Tutorials Guides are designed to help you understand what you need to know to get started working in SAP. Written from the end-user's perspective, SAPCOOKBOOK Resource Manuals and Training Tutorials guides provide step-by-step instruction on how to execute the critical transactions in each functional area of SAP. This is not a 1000-page encyclopedia filled with obscure configuration items that you will never use - this book shows you what people actually do in the SAP system, and how to do it faster. Michael Martinez will help you understand the document flow and the business process steps you need to work in the exciting area of SAP. SAPCOOKBOOK Training Tutorials Guides are the fastest way to learn SAP, period.

Companies lose millions of dollars each year on their business applications running on Java application servers due to issues that could have easily been avoided. Implementing a winning strategy to reduce costs can be extremely challenging, but can pay off with more stable systems, increased morale and better customer experience. Putting the right technical approach in place combined with a process that integrates your lessons learned back into the system can eliminate lost revenue. The measure of success in Java application server management is generating a repeatable process that delivers consistent results. Ensuring success in designing, developing, deploying and managing the systems is built on technologists working to architect your new systems. John Hawkins, an experienced technical consultant, shares his insight in a practical guidebook that outlines the critical steps to design, support and build complex n-tier systems. You will learn how to overcome the organizational and technical challenges, understand the fundamentals, and then design an application that will save your company money and, in turn, make you a more valuable employee.

"Affinity" is a vital component to future success for application and systems administrators and IT managers who want to increase the reliability of Java application servers.

The LEGO MINDSTORMS toolkit can be used to help students learn basic programming and engineering concepts. The ROBOLAB software is widely used to program LEGO MINDSTORMS robotics in its icon-based programming environment. However, this software does not provide debug features for LEGO MINDSTORMS programs. Users cannot test the program before downloading it into LEGO robotics hardware. This book introduces a simulator to simulate the motions of LEGO robotics in a virtual 3D environment. The simulator uses ODE (Open Dynamic Engine) and OpenGL, combined with ROBOLAB. It can track and display program execution as the simulation runs. An introduction to the overall structure and architecture of the simulator is given and is followed by a detailed description of each component in the system. The discussions based on several test results are then given. This leads to the conclusion that the simulator is able to accurately represent the actions of robots under certain assumptions and conditions. This work should help users to understand basic robotic simulation concepts, especially for those users who are working with LEGO MINDSTORMS."

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Integrate Web 2.0 trends and technologies into the enterprise Written by a team of experts from the Web 2.0 community and Oracle Corporation, this innovative guide provides a blueprint for leveraging the new culture of participation in an enterprise environment. Reshaping Your Business with Web 2.0 offers proven strategies for the successful adoption of an enterprise 2.0 paradigm and covers the technical solutions that best apply in specific situations. You will find clear guidelines for using Web 2.0 technologies and standards in a productive way to align with business goals, increase efficiency, and provide measurable bottom line growth. Foster collaboration and accelerate information dissemination with blogs and wikis Implement folksonomic strategies to achieve business intelligence, analytics, and semantic web goals Capture and broadcast connection graphs and activity streams via social networks Bring together application data, business analytics, unstructured information, and collaborative interactions in enterprise mashups Enable rich Internet applications with Ajax, Ruby on Rails, Flash, FLEX, and other technologies Connect your Web 2.0 ecosystem through Web services, such as REST and JSON Ensure security and compliance management

This study was to determine how college students assess their college technology programs and how they perceive the adequacy of the technology skills they had acquired in meeting workplace needs. A survey research design was used in this study. Major skill areas include Word,Access,Excel,and PowerPoint. The findings indicated that participants were satisfied with the quality of their technology programs but they expressed some concern with the areas of instructional materials and integrating technology. Four-year college participants agreed that they had acquired the necessary Word,Excel,PowerPoint,and Access skills. Two-year college participants agreed that they have acquired the necessary Word,Excel,and PowerPoint skills but did not express they had acquired the necessary Access skills.Recommendations included:(a) conducting survey research to identify businesses and industries' technology needs,(b)improving the questionnaire,(c)interviewing faculty members and students for survey research,(d)conducting a pilot study,(e)establishing validity and reliability for the modified questionnaire,and(f)using research design.

Diploma Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Computer Science - Applied, grade: 2.0, University of Salzburg (Department of Computer Sciences), course: Natural Computation, 36 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This thesis presents techniques to detect mental blocks in humans based on the physiological parameters skin potential and skin resistance. We examine physiological measures from the Musico Cause and Effect study of the Science Network for Man and Music at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Mozarteum Salzburg. The existing digital signal analysis tool AIDA used to process the physiological data has been replaced by the Dynalyzer developed by the author with considerable improvements in accuracy and performance. We present fundamentals of digital signal processing, outline the measurement of physiological data, and discuss characteristics of mental blocks. We suggest several criteria for the detection of mental blocks based on characteristic features of the physiological time series in the time and/or frequency domain. In first experiments the potential of these criteria is evaluated by applying them to actual physiological data of a test subject. As no ground truth on the occurrence of mental blocks is available, the experimental results can only be an indicator for the quality of the detection of mental blocks. Further experiments are conducted with data from the Vienna determination test assessing the reactive stress tolerance and attention deficits of human test subjects.

The theme of this book is an examination of security patterns for mobile agents systems and a unique weighting scheme for security patterns. It is motivated by the trend within software engineering, artificial intelligence to develop systems, which possess disconnects between security integration and system practicality. Security experts within software engineering are primarily concerned with the many facets of system security, while the mobile agent/distributed system developer is primarily concerned with building small commercial or academic prototypes systems that work for a particular research problem. This has led to the contemporary problem of ad-hoc mobile agent/distributed system development in disjointed pieces in which security is typically considered as an afterthought not as aforethought. Security patterns are a unique way to bridge the gap between practical secure systems, specialized prototype systems within the interdisciplinary fields of software engineering, and artificial intelligence. These security patterns allow the community to exploit the knowledge and experience of sophisticated members of their community as well as provide a framework for discussion.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Computer Science - Software, University of Paderborn, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: This work will give insight on the current developments in the field of server virtualization and the various techniques involved in it as well as a short historical overview about when the first types of virtualization were introduced. The findings will mostly be supported by examples of current virtual environments (especially the XEN project)., abstract: Server virtualization is currently a field of IT which is undergoing a rapid development. Introducing an even spread of performance on server farms which results in a good TCO (total cost of ownership), virtualization has already got the full attention from industry, resulting in massive participation and huge acquisitions. With server virtualization the size of server farms can be reduced dramatically, resulting in a lower total cost of ownership and (by using techniques like Linux-HA in virtual environments) increased availability. Even with an overhead of 10-20% on the layer of virtualization it is still very interesting since the load on a server farm can be spread evenly (which is not only a main target in server virtualization but also in distributed systems in general). This work will give an insight on the current developments in the field of server virtualization and the various techniques involved in it as well as a short historical overview about when the first types of virtualization were introduced (and why they failed, since according to A. Tanenbaum the current hardware is not made to be virtualized). The findings will mostly be supported by examples of current virtual environments (especially the XEN project). The paper will first introduce the different ways of virtualizing a system and in how far hardware can or can not support this. The second part will introduce the current software for virtualizing a server and giving user

Simplified Building Energy Modeling Tool for Architects is an energy software program designed to study the relative change of energy uses in different architectural design schemes.It can be used in the design process, construction, and daily operation of most buildings. This energy-based interfacing program is intended to help architects, engineers, educators, students, building designers, major consumers of architectural services, and other professionals, whose work interfaces with that of architects, to quickly visualize, and compare energy performance and savings of different design schemes. The techniques are sophisticated enough to inform design decisions, enable performance analysis and diagnostic studies. The book begins with the importance of and outlines its scope of work, problems, hepotheses, innovative approach, objectives, methodology and procedure, assumptions and limitations, research findings, and outcommes and results, takes the readers into a historical development and recent trends of building energy modeling, analysis, and design tools, then explains the major concepts of the software tool: module and its parameters, and many different functions that the tool can do.

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. "Exchange experts and Microsoft MVPs Richard Luckett, William Lefkovics, and Bharat Suneja have packed this book with practical guidance, useful information, and years of knowledge and experience. If you're responsible for one or more aspects of an Exchange 2007-based messaging system, keep this book close, as you'll be referring to it often!" --Scott Schnoll, Principal Technical Writer, Exchange Server Product Team, Microsoft Corporation

Many years of research into using Electronic Voting Systems (EVS) within lectures has so far led to the conclusion that EVS is of beneficial value to student learning by involving students directly in conversation and deeper reflection. EVS researchers have proposed that using the voting data from EVS outside the lecture theatre may also benefit learning. They suggest that an Integrated Learning Environment (ILE) presenting this data would enable students to self-direct their learning and tutors to continue the dialogue from lectures. This book describes the implementation of such an ILE used within an introductory programming course at the University of Glasgow, in order to investigate these proposed benefits. This book also discusses what impact the instructional design of the course has on student learning and uses this discussion to illuminate the findings. This reasoning leads to suggested changes to the instructional design to provide better opportunity for deeper reflection amongst the students.

The International Cooperation for the Integration of Processes in Prepress, Press and Postpress Organization (CIP4) provides a technical standard for reliable interoperability between different hardware and software vendors in the print media industry. The standard is based on the Job Definition Format (JDF), an XML-based job ticket, and the Job Messaging Format (JMF), a job messaging protocol. This book covers the design and implementation of pull workflows in a JDF environment, based on the JDF Specification v1.3. Usually, controllers submit jobs to workers. In order to keep track of the workers, information about their statuses and capabilities has to be updated continuously. This can get time and network consuming in larger implementations. Pull workflows can help to tackle these problems. As part of this book, Bambi has been developed. Bambi is a set of J2EE applications for simulating pull workflows. A library covering its core functionality is provided as well.

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Careers that involve helping people are tremendously rewarding; they also offer diverse opportunities. In order to decide what job route is best for you, you need to begin with a clear plan: What will you specialize in? Do you need an advanced degree or certificate? How will you find the right position? "Careers in Social and Rehabilitation Services" has the answers. Here, you'll discover all the information you need to find a satisfying and secure job doing what you love. Whether you want to work at a not-for-profit, become a physical therapist, or be a career counselor, this guide will help you: Clearly understand your various career optionsKey in on the specialty best suited for you--from psychology to social work to rehabilitation servicesKnow what to expect when you start outFind the education and training you'll need to stay ahead of the competitionFamiliarize yourself with current salaries, benefits, and the best job prospects

Global software development (GSD) projects should allow efficient development of complex software systems while teams coming from diverse cultural backgrounds, technical capabilities, and time zones work together. However, GSD projects are also complex socio-technical systems which face the challenge of facilitating collaboration in a heterogeneous and changing technical environment. This book presents: 1) A model to describe GSD projects as socio-technical systems and analyze their risks and weak spots in order to support the project manager weigh the trade-offs between resources, quality and schedule that come with changes in the project plan. 2) A domain-specific language for notification modeling, which allows precise and user-friendly modeling of the notification requirements. 3) The tool prototype Noticon, which integrates the work tools that are used in GSD projects via open source technologies (Mule, ActiveMQ, Drools) in order to provide rich notification capabilities. 4) A feasibility study for the evaluation of the model and the tool prototype conducted in cooperation with experts from Siemens PSE in the context of a typical GSD environment.

Globalization and increased competition require that software products are introduced to the market as early as possible. For the successful development of software products it is crucial to take the process view which distinguishes between three processes that consist of multiple steps: product management processes, project management processes and software methodologies. The software industry differentiates itself from the classical production industry by having a great variety of software methodologies available. Often project management processes are perceived isolated from the product development processes for software products. In order to guarantee a successful product development the phases and milestones between these three process types need to be aligned. This work shows the process alignment from the project management view. It identifies the relationships between project management, product management and software development methodologies. Further it provides systems dynamics models for software methodologies to show the effect of these software methodologies over time and to identify the parameters that can influence the progress of a project.

The Ultimate Reference & Learning Guide for Business Objects and SAP careers Over 150 Certification Questions, Answers, and Explanations It's clear that Business Objects SA is the future for analytics and reporting in SAP - but finding good reference materials can be difficult. Now, for the first time, a world class Business Objects SA consultant shares his knowledge and understanding of this complex topic. Business Objects SA guides you easily through your learning process. From helping you to assess your Business Objects SA skills, to helping screen candidates for your Business Objects positions, Business Objects SA will help you understand what you really need to know. This book is organized around several areas of Business Objects Architecture, Crystal Reports, Programming, Installation and Troubleshooting. More than just a rehash of Business Objects documentation and sales presentations, each question is based on implementation project know-how gained on high-profile Business Objects implementations. Key topics include: Crystal Reports Importing, Exporting, Formulas and Data Connectivity & Access General Issues

In today s world, most global companies face enormous challenges in dealing with an inflexible budget climate when complex changes are required. "Secrets to a Successful Commercial Software Implementation" will help guide business leaders to gain understanding of how commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) software like SAP, Seibel, and PeopleSoft should be applied in order to ultimately achieve significant cost savings.

Project management professional Nick Berg utilizes his strong background in domestic and international Systems Applications and Products to teach others the potential benefits of implementing COTS products such as faster deployment time, enhanced quality and reliability, reduced development risk, provided periodic upgrades and improvements, and an already established support system. He introduces a unique process for COTS development, presents best-practice processes for COTS projects, and defines the architecture procedures within the COTS environment. Finally, he walks through each project phase of a COTS-based project by introducing the objectives, road map, roles, activities, artifacts, and milestone of the phase.

The cultural impact on an organization facing this decision is profound, but if implemented with forethought, planning, and dedicated guidance and execution, the benefits to an organization will be long reaching and significant.

The contemporary genre of software art is characterized by creative and critical engagement with the technical language of computer programming. While at one level this represents a new realm of artistic possibility, at another level it raises fundamental questions concerning how aesthetic practices can intervene within processes of logical abstraction and instrumental engineering. This monograph argues that the potential of software art resides less in defining a settled and clearly delineated creative field than in opening up a space of vital aesthetic risk in which a variety of discursive boundaries can be challenged. It begins by examining the notion of software within computer science and new media theory, moves on to provide an overview of the emergence of software art, and then considers a range of specific dilemmas - of cultural position, of aesthetic visibility and of recursive focus - that the genre confronts. These dilemmas are addressed both generally and in relation to aspects of the author's own software art practice. This monograph should prove interesting to theorists and practitioners in the fields of media, new media and software art.