Current Trends and Advances in Computer-Aided Intelligent Environmental Data Engineering merges computer engineering and environmental engineering. The book presents the latest finding on how data science and AI-based tools are being applied in environmental engineering research. This application involves multiple domains such as data science and artificial intelligence to transform the data collected by intelligent sensors into relevant and reliable information to support decision-making. These tools include fuzzy logic, knowledge-based systems, particle swarm optimization, genetic algorithms, Monte Carlo simulation, artificial neural networks, support vector machine, boosted regression tree, simulated annealing, ant colony algorithm, decision tree, immune algorithm, and imperialist competitive algorithm. This book is a fundamental information source because it is the first book to present the foundational reference material in this new research field. Furthermore, it gives a critical overview of the latest cross-domain research findings and technological developments on the recent advances in computer-aided intelligent environmental data engineering.

Build, deploy, and manage containers with the next-generation engine and tools Key Features Discover key differences between Docker and Podman Build brand new container images with Buildah, the Podman companion Learn how to manage and integrate containers securely in your existing infrastructure Book DescriptionAs containers have become the new de facto standard for packaging applications and their dependencies, understanding how to implement, build, and manage them is now an essential skill for developers, system administrators, and SRE/operations teams. Podman and its companion tools Buildah and Skopeo make a great toolset to boost the development, execution, and management of containerized applications. Starting with the basic concepts of containerization and its underlying technology, this book will help you get your first container up and running with Podman. You'll explore the complete toolkit and go over the development of new containers, their lifecycle management, troubleshooting, and security aspects. Together with Podman, the book illustrates Buildah and Skopeo to complete the tools ecosystem and cover the complete workflow for building, releasing, and managing optimized container images. Podman for DevOps provides a comprehensive view of the full-stack container technology and its relationship with the operating system foundations, along with crucial topics such as networking, monitoring, and integration with systemd, docker-compose, and Kubernetes. By the end of this DevOps book, you'll have developed the skills needed to build and package your applications inside containers as well as to deploy, manage, and integrate them with system services. What you will learn Understand Podman's daemonless approach as a container engine Run, manage, and secure containers with Podman Discover the strategies, concepts, and command-line options for using Buildah to build containers from scratch Manage OCI images with Skopeo Troubleshoot runtime, build, and isolation issues Integrate Podman containers with existing networking and system services Who this book is forThe book is for cloud developers looking to learn how to build and package applications inside containers and system administrators who want to deploy, manage, and integrate them with system services and orchestration solutions. This book provides a detailed comparison between Docker and Podman to aid you in learning Podman quickly.

Save hours of guesswork and Internet browsing by enhancing your QuickBooks Online skills and leveraging Ash Beetson's extensive QuickBooks knowledge Key Features Broaden your knowledge of QuickBooks Online and accounting concepts Understand how QuickBooks can be adapted to suit different business types using professional techniques Learn best practices for preparing annual accounts before closing the books for the year Book DescriptionAccountants and bookkeepers can sometimes face challenges while coming up with solutions to help their clients. QuickBooks Online, a popular cloud accounting software, comes with a wide range of tools that can take time to learn. This book will show you how to properly combine the tools available in QuickBooks to get the most out of this software. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, the book will begin by helping you understand how to create opening balances for a new company. You'll then discover essential bookkeeping and accountancy tips and tricks, and find guidance to help make QuickBooks as easy to use as possible. As you advance, you'll explore different scenarios in which QuickBooks Online can be used for various business types. This will help you understand that not every business is the same, but using the wide range of functionalities QuickBooks Online offers, you can customize solutions to really make it work for you. By the end of this QuickBooks book, you'll have gained deep insights into how you can use QuickBooks Online to work for different business types, and you'll have a complete checklist of the different things you should be doing when you start reviewing accounts ahead of tax season. What you will learn Discover how to correctly set up QuickBooks Online with opening balances Adapt QuickBooks Online to meet specific industry needs, from manufacturing and retail using inventory to helping lawyers and property agents handle client funds Get the most out of features such as Projects and Multicurrency Review reports within QuickBooks Online, understand why errors occur, and learn how to resolve them Get to grips with key accounting principles and concepts tailored for bookkeeping and accounting beginners Find out how the audit trail works and explore all of the information it holds Who this book is forBusiness owners, company directors, accountants, bookkeepers, certified public accountants (CPAs), and anyone studying accounting and bookkeeping will find this book useful. The book contains general bookkeeping and accountancy tips and is designed to help you get the most out of the tools available in QuickBooks Online. Prior QuickBooks knowledge is necessary.

Make the most of Salesforce Marketing Cloud through automation and increase your productivity on the platform without adding any extra resources Key Features Increase your knowledge of automation theory and the applications of SFMC Explore automation with SFMC and its capabilities beyond general usage Understand the automation features and integrations of SFMC to use the platform from outside the user interface (UI) for maximum efficiency Book DescriptionSalesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) allows you to use multiple channels and tools to create a 1:1 marketing experience for your customers and subscribers. Through automation and helper tasks, you can greatly increase your productivity while also reducing the level of effort required in terms of volume and frequency. Automating Salesforce Marketing Cloud starts by discussing what automation is generally and then progresses to what automation is in SFMC. After that, you'll focus on how to perform automation inside of SFMC all the way to fully running processes and capabilities from an external service. Later chapters explore the benefits and capabilities of automation and having an automation mindset both within and outside of SFMC. Equipped with this knowledge and example code, you'll be prepared to maximize your SFMC efficiency. By the end of this Salesforce book, you'll have the skills you need to build automation both inside and outside of SFMC, along with the knowledge for using the platform optimally. What you will learn Understand automation to make the most of the SFMC platform Optimize ETL activities, data import integrations, data segmentations, email sends, and more Explore different ways to use scripting and API calls to increase Automation Studio efficiency Identify opportunities for automation with custom integrations and third-party solutions Optimize usage of SFMC by building on the core concepts of custom integrations and third-party tools Maximize utilization of employee skills and capabilities and reduce operational costs while increasing output Who this book is forThis book is for Salesforce Marketing Cloud users who want to know how to make their day to day lives more efficient and get the most out of the tool by working smarter, not harder. A solid understanding of SFMC and basic knowledge of what automation is will help you get the most out of this book.

Learn how to write automated tests for Dynamics 365 Business Central and discover how you can implement them in your daily work Key Features Leverage automated testing to advance over traditional manual testing methods Write, design, and implement automated tests Explore various testing frameworks and tools compatible with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Book DescriptionDynamics 365 Business Central is a cloud-based SaaS ERP proposition from Microsoft. With development practices becoming more formal, implementing changes or new features is not as simple as it used to be back when Dynamics 365 Business Central was called Navigator, Navision Financials, or Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision, and the call for test automation is increasing. This book will show you how to leverage the testing tools available in Dynamics 365 Business Central to perform automated testing. Starting with a quick introduction to automated testing and test-driven development (TDD), you'll get an overview of test automation in Dynamics 365 Business Central. You'll then learn how to design and build automated tests and explore methods to progress from requirements to application and testing code. Next, you'll find out how you can incorporate your own as well as Microsoft tests into your development practice. With the addition of three new chapters, this second edition covers in detail how to construct complex scenarios, write testable code, and test processes with incoming and outgoing calls. By the end of this book, you'll be able to write your own automated tests for Microsoft Business Central. What you will learn Understand the why and when of automated testing Discover how test-driven development can help to improve automated testing Explore the six pillars of the Testability Framework of Business Central Design and write automated tests for Business Central Make use of standard automated tests and their helper libraries Understand the challenges in testing features that interact with the external world Integrate automated tests into your development practice Who this book is forThis book is for consultants, testers, developers, and development managers working with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Functional as well as technical development teams will find this book on automated testing techniques useful.

With over 200 recipes covering real-world examples, take your Odoo development skills to the next level and solve complex business problems using this guide Key Features Learn to develop new modules and modify existing modules using the Odoo framework Explore key concepts of the Odoo framework to build robust business applications Create dynamic websites with snippets and learn to deploy an Odoo instance on the server or Odoo.sh Book DescriptionWith its latest iteration, the powerful Odoo framework released a wide variety of features for rapid application development. This updated Odoo development cookbook will help you explore the new features in Odoo 14 and learn how to use them to develop Odoo applications from scratch. You'll learn about the new website concepts in Odoo 14 and get a glimpse of Odoo's new web-client framework, the Odoo Web Library (OWL). Once you've completed the installation, you'll begin to explore the Odoo framework with real-world examples. You'll then create a new Odoo module from the ground up and progress to advanced framework concepts. You'll also learn how to modify existing applications, including Point of Sale (POS) applications. This book isn't just limited to backend development; you'll discover advanced JavaScript recipes for creating new views and widgets. As you progress, you'll learn about website development and become a quality Odoo developer by studying performance optimization, debugging, and automated testing. Finally, you'll delve into advanced concepts such as multi-website, In-App Purchasing (IAP), Odoo.sh, the IoT Box, and security. By the end of the book, you'll have all the knowledge you need to build impressive Odoo applications and you'll be well versed in development best practices that will come in handy when working with the Odoo framework. What you will learn Build beautiful websites with Odoo CMS using dynamic building blocks Get to grips with advanced concepts such as caching, prefetching, debugging Modify backend JavaScript components and POS applications with the new OWL framework Connect and access any object in Odoo via Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) Manage, deploy, and test an Odoo instance with Odoo.sh Configure IoT Box to add and upgrade Point of Sale (POS) hardware Find out how to implement in-app purchase services Who this book is forThis book is suitable for both newcomers and experienced Odoo developers who want to develop a highly efficient business application with the Odoo framework. Basic knowledge of Python and JavaScript is necessary to get the most out of the book.

All scheduling software is difficult to learn for a number of reasons. None have the optimal settings when installed and Layouts, User Preferences and default options need to be adjusted to obtain the best possible performance. Usually the Help files do not connect the user to real life situations and do not explain the practical use of functions. Furthermore, there are many flicks and switches with obscure names that are difficult to understand or decide what they do or which are important. These issues make learning the software very difficult without a comprehensive guide written by an experienced user. Investing in a book written by Paul E Harris will address all these issues and allow you to setup the software properly and understand all the obscure functions letting you become productive more quickly and enhance your career opportunities and salary with a solid understanding of the software. This book is an update of the author's Primavera P6 Version 8 to 20 book and the workshops have been updated so they start in the future. The book has been written so it may be used with any software industry version. The book is packed with screen shots, constructive tips and contains workshops with solutions at the end of each chapter for the reader to practice the skills taught. It has been written so it may be used with either the Professional Project Management Client version or the Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Optional Client. The book is aimed at: 1. People who wish learn the software but are unable to attend a training course and find the software reference manual hard going. 2. Project management companies who wish to run their own software training courses or provide their employees with an alternative text to the vendor supplied user manual. 3. Training organizations requiring a training manual to run their own training courses. The book is designed to teach planners and schedulers in any industry how to setup and use the software in a project environment. It explains in plain English and in a logical sequence, the steps required to create and maintain an unresourced and resourced schedule. It tackles some of the more complex aspects of the software that the user manual does not address. It highlights the sources of information and the methods that should be employed to produce a realistic and useful project schedule. The book provides advice on how on how the many software options may be applied to projects environments and it aims to teach readers how to plan and control projects created within the software package and stays focused on explaining how to use Primavera to schedule projects by: 1. Concentrating on the core functions required to set up an enterprise environment and how to plan and control projects. 2. Providing command lists at the start of each chapter as a quick reference. 3. Providing a comprehensive table of contents and index of all topics. The book is intended to be used: 1. As a self-teach book, or 2. A user guide, or 3. A training manual for a three-day training course, instructor PowerPoint slide shows are available from the author. This book is written by an experienced scheduler, who has used the software at the sharp end of projects and is not a techo. It draws on the author's practical experience in using the software in a wide variety of industries. It presents workable solutions to real day to day planning and scheduling problems and contains practical advice on how to set up the software and import data.

The ultimate guide to becoming proficient in Azure Bicep while having a better development experience and making your Infrastructure as Code seamless and error free Key Features Learn Azure Bicep from an official Microsoft trainer Master the authoring experience to make your Infrastructure as Code journey seamless Go beyond writing good templates with the help of advanced tips and tricks Book DescriptionIt's no secret that developers don't like using JSON files to declare their resources in Azure because of issues such as parameter duplication and not being able to use comments in templates. Azure Bicep helps resolve these issues, and this book will guide you, as a developer or DevOps engineer, to get the most out of the Bicep language. The book takes you on a journey from understanding Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates and what their drawbacks are to how you can use Bicep to overcome them. You will get familiar with tools such as Visual Studio Code, the Bicep extension, the Azure CLI, PowerShell, Azure DevOps, and GitHub for writing reusable, maintainable templates. After that, you'll test the templates and deploy them to an Azure environment either from your own system or via a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. The book features a detailed overview of all the Bicep features, when to use what, and how to write great templates that fit well into your existing pipelines or in a new one. The chapters progress from easy to advanced topics and every effort has been put into making them easy to follow with examples, all of which are accessible via GitHub. By the end of this book, you'll have developed a solid understanding of Azure Bicep and will be able to create, test, and deploy your resources locally or in your CI/CD pipelines. What you will learn Get started with Azure Bicep and install the necessary tools Understand the details of how to define resources with Bicep Use modules to create templates for different teams in your company Optimize templates using expressions, conditions, and loops Make customizable templates using parameters, variables, and functions Deploy templates locally or from Azure DevOps or GitHub Stay on top of your IaC with best practices and industry standards Who this book is forThis book is for cloud engineers, developers, and DevOps engineers who are responsible for writing templates to deploy resources in Microsoft Azure and contributing to CI/CD pipelines. Professionals who want to get started with DevOps and Infrastructure as Code when it comes to working with Microsoft Azure will also benefit from reading this book. Readers are expected to have a basic understanding of CI/CD concepts, must have worked with ARM templates to deploy resources to Azure, and must have used or be familiar with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions for their CI/CD pipelines.

Because it continually implements entrepreneurial creativity and innovative business models, the economic landscape is ever-changing in today's globalized world. As consumers become more willing to accept new strategic trends, this has led to the emergence of disruptive technologies. Since this equipment has an insufficient amount of information and high risks, it is necessary to assess the potential of disruptive technologies in the commercial environment. Impact of Disruptive Technologies on the Sharing Economy provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of disruptive technologies and knowledge-based entrepreneurial efforts and applications within management, business, and economics. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as consumer ethics, corporate governance, and insurance issues, this book is ideally designed for IT specialists, IT consultants, software developers, computer engineers, managers, executives, managing directors, students, professors, scientists, professionals, industry practitioners, academicians, and researchers seeking current research on the consequences of disruptive technologies.

Learn how to defend your ICS in practice, from lab setup and intel gathering to working with SCADA Key Features Become well-versed with offensive ways of defending your industrial control systems Learn about industrial network protocols, threat hunting, Active Directory compromises, SQL injection, and much more Build offensive and defensive skills to combat industrial cyber threats Book DescriptionThe industrial cybersecurity domain has grown significantly in recent years. To completely secure critical infrastructure, red teams must be employed to continuously test and exploit the security integrity of a company's people, processes, and products. This is a unique pentesting book, which takes a different approach by helping you gain hands-on experience with equipment that you'll come across in the field. This will enable you to understand how industrial equipment interacts and operates within an operational environment. You'll start by getting to grips with the basics of industrial processes, and then see how to create and break the process, along with gathering open-source intel to create a threat landscape for your potential customer. As you advance, you'll find out how to install and utilize offensive techniques used by professional hackers. Throughout the book, you'll explore industrial equipment, port and service discovery, pivoting, and much more, before finally launching attacks against systems in an industrial network. By the end of this penetration testing book, you'll not only understand how to analyze and navigate the intricacies of an industrial control system (ICS), but you'll also have developed essential offensive and defensive skills to proactively protect industrial networks from modern cyberattacks. What you will learn Set up a starter-kit ICS lab with both physical and virtual equipment Perform open source intel-gathering pre-engagement to help map your attack landscape Get to grips with the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for penetration testing on industrial equipment Understand the principles of traffic spanning and the importance of listening to customer networks Gain fundamental knowledge of ICS communication Connect physical operational technology to engineering workstations and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software Get hands-on with directory scanning tools to map web-based SCADA solutions Who this book is forIf you are an ethical hacker, penetration tester, automation engineer, or IT security professional looking to maintain and secure industrial networks from adversaries, this book is for you. A basic understanding of cybersecurity and recent cyber events will help you get the most out of this book.

Modernize and upgrade your enterprise ERP environment by learning to work with the stable and essential components of Odoo 12 from scratch Key Features Learn the fundamentals of Odoo, a comprehensive enterprise management platform, without writing a single line of code Create business operation strategies and analytics by using Odoo Build customized ERP and CRM solutions for your business Book DescriptionOdoo is management software that contains a set of open source enterprise management applications that help you modernize your business. Completely revised and updated, this comprehensive Odoo guide is a fourth edition of Working with Odoo. This book begins with an introduction to Odoo and helps you set up Odoo Online in your system. You'll learn how to start a new company database in Odoo and the basics of Odoo sales management. You will explore customer relationship management in Odoo and its importance in a modern business environment. Moving on, you'll learn how to install the purchasing application, set up suppliers, and begin purchasing and receiving products in Odoo. Next, you'll learn how to use the MRP module to create, process, and schedule the manufacturing and production order. Once you get to grips with the basic applications, you'll uncover how to customize Odoo to meet the specific needs of your business. You'll learn some advanced techniques for searching and finding information, and you'll be taken through business intelligence in Odoo. Towards the end of the book, you'll go in-depth into Odoo's architecture and learn to use Odoo's API to integrate with other applications. By the end of the book, you'll be ready to use Odoo to build enterprise applications and set up the functional requirements for your business. What you will learn Configure and customize a customer relationship management system Set up purchasing and receiving system functionality in your Odoo environment Understand manufacturing operations and processes with real-world examples Explore Odoo's financial accounting and reporting features Use Odoo's featured project management application to sort tasks Get to grips with the basics of Odoo administration and manage multi-company operations Who this book is forThis book is for any IT professionals, business managers, and operation managers who are looking to gain a functional understanding of Odoo or trying to implement Odoo in their organization to improve their business processes. No prior experience of Odoo is required.

This book is designed as a student handout for a two-day training course and may also be used as a self-teach book. This course objectives are to teach participants: * The user interface, * How to create a projects, * Scheduling projects without resources, * Filters, Views, Sorts and Printing, * Creating and assigning a baseline and * Updating an un-resourced project. Most chapters are reinforced by student workshops.