This book offers a comprehensive overview of the challenges in hydrological modeling. Hydrology, on both a local and global scale, has undergone dramatic changes, largely due to variations in climate, population growth and the associated land-use and land-cover changes. Written by experts in the field, the book provides decision-makers with a better understanding of the science, impacts, and consequences of these climate and land-use changes on hydrology. Further, offering insights into how the changing behavior of hydrological processes, related uncertainties and their evolution affect the modeling process, it is of interest for all researchers and practitioners using hydrological modeling.

Architecting High Performing, Scalable and Available Enterprise Web Applications provides in-depth insights into techniques for achieving desired scalability, availability and performance quality goals for enterprise web applications. The book provides an integrated 360-degree view of achieving and maintaining these attributes through practical, proven patterns, novel models, best practices, performance strategies, and continuous improvement methodologies and case studies. The author shares his years of experience in application security, enterprise application testing, caching techniques, production operations and maintenance, and efficient project management techniques.

Elements of Digital Transformation is a practitioner’s guide on the digital transformation process. It is also a guide for managers in today’s organizations that are accelerating the digital transformation to modernize core technology capabilities and processes. The book discusses such key components of digital transformation as processes, principles, proven methods. It also covers such novel concepts in the digital transformation as the first-time right framework, incident management transformation, digital factory, cloud migration, API-first approach, and legacy modernization. Other highlights of the book include: A cloud migration framework along with a cloud migration methodology, roll out strategy, and migration principles Principles and approaches for legacy modernization and process modernization Smart-ticket management, smart problem management, proactive maintenance, and ticket avoidance architecture The novel digital factory approach to automate the software process Detailed case studies, a sample digital transformation exercise, and a consulting exercise for digital transformation provide readers with real-world digital transformation scenarios and best practices. The book also discusses Devops, automation and agile delivery models that help in digital transformation.

Elements of Digital Transformation is a practitioner’s guide on the digital transformation process. It is also a guide for managers in today’s organizations that are accelerating the digital transformation to modernize core technology capabilities and processes. The book discusses such key components of digital transformation as processes, principles, proven methods. It also covers such novel concepts in the digital transformation as the first-time right framework, incident management transformation, digital factory, cloud migration, API-first approach, and legacy modernization. Other highlights of the book include: A cloud migration framework along with a cloud migration methodology, roll out strategy, and migration principles Principles and approaches for legacy modernization and process modernization Smart-ticket management, smart problem management, proactive maintenance, and ticket avoidance architecture The novel digital factory approach to automate the software process Detailed case studies, a sample digital transformation exercise, and a consulting exercise for digital transformation provide readers with real-world digital transformation scenarios and best practices. The book also discusses Devops, automation and agile delivery models that help in digital transformation.

Web-based platforms have become vehicles for enterprises to realize their digital strategy and are key to positive user engagement. The performance of these platforms can make the difference between an effective sale and a negative review. There exist several tools and methodologies to enhance your digital platform's performance, and Modern Web Performance Optimization has arrived to walk you through them with an expert's guidance. Author Shailesh Kumar Shivakumar breaks the study of web performance optimization down into four digestible, applicable dimensions: performance patterns, framework and methods, process and tools, and the modern web. This multi-faceted approach ensures a broad optimization of your platforms and avoids the typical pitfalls of neglecting essential steps that so many often do. Shivakumar analyzes web performance ecosystem components such as validation, governance, metrics, key performance indicators, assessments, and monitoring, just to name a few. The book discusses reference architectures and relevant tools and technologies for successfully implementing a best practices-driven solution. Modern web frameworks such as HTML5 and PWA are also covered. Modern Web Performance Optimization puts readers from any level of experience at ease. Accessible templates, real-world case studies, and your very own performance optimization checklist make this book an engaging and interactive learning opportunity for platform owners across industries. Developers, engineers, project managers, and more are set up for long-term success with Modern Web Performance Optimization at their fingertips. What You Will Learn Analyze the performance optimization across end-to-end layers Utilize a comprehensive web optimization framework for digital projects Implement proven methods, best practices, and tools for web performance optimization Who This Book Is ForSystem administrators, front-end developers, professionals looking to understand how to optimize their online presence

Evolve your traditional intranet platform into a next-generation digital workspace with this comprehensive book. Through in-depth coverage of strategies, methods, and case studies, you will learn how to design and build an employee experience platform (EXP) for improved employee productivity, engagement, and collaboration. In Build a Next-Generation Digital Workplace, author Shailesh Kumar Shivakumar takes you through the advantages of EXPs and shows you how to successfully implement one in your organization. This book provides extensive coverage of topics such as EXP design, user experience, content strategy, integration, EXP development, collaboration, and EXP governance. Real-world case studies are also presented to explore practical applications. Employee experience platforms play a vital role in engaging, empowering, and retaining the employees of an organization. Next-generation workplaces demand constant innovation and responsiveness, and this book readies you to fulfill that need with an employee experience platform. You will: Understand key design elements of EXP, including the visual design, EXP strategy, EXP transformation themes, information architecture, and navigation design. Gain insights into end-to-end EXP topics needed to successfully design, implement, and maintain next-generation digital workplace platforms. Study methods used in the EXP lifecycle, such as requirements and design, development, governance, and maintenance Execute the main steps involved in digital transformation of legacy intranet platforms to EXP. Discover emerging trends in digital workplace such as gamification, machine-led operations model and maintenance model, employee-centric design (including persona based design and employee journey mapping), cloud transformation, and design transformation. Comprehend proven methods for legacy Intranet modernization, collaboration, solution validation, migration, and more. Who This Book Is For Digital enthusiasts, web developers, digital architects, program managers, and more.

Use digital experience platforms (DXP) to improve your development productivity and release timelines. Leverage the pre-integrated feature sets of DXPs in your organization's digital transformation journey to quickly develop a personalized, secure, and robust enterprise platform. In this book the authors examine various features of DXPs and provide rich insights into building each layer in a digital platform. Proven best practices are presented with examples for designing and building layers. A special focus is provided on security and quality attributes needed for business-critical enterprise applications. The authors cover modern and emerging digital trends such as Blockchain, IoT, containers, chatbots, artificial intelligence, and more. The book is divided into five parts related to requirements/design, development, security, infrastructure, and case study. The authors employ proven real-world methods, best practices, and security and integration techniques derived from their rich experience. An elaborate digital transformation case study for a banking application is included. What You'll Learn Develop a digital experience platform from end to end Understand best practices and proven methods for designing overall architecture, user interface and integration components, security, and infrastructure Study real-world cases, including an elaborate digital transformation building an enterprise platform for a banking application Know the open source tools and technology frameworks that can be used to build DXPs Who This Book Is For Web developers, full stack developers, digital enthusiasts, digital project managers, and architects

There are various constraints in vanilla cultivation and processing. The high time consumption and labour requirement of the traditional curing technique put off the farmers from doing the curing process. In this book, an attempt was made to standardize the curing technique. This book draws on some experiences of the authors in field of Vanilla processing and how practical problem in Vanilla curing can be solved by reducing the time of curing.

Build a Next-Generation Enterprise Digital Platform with Portals and UXP A Complete Guide to Portals and User Experience Platforms provides in-depth coverage of portal technologies and user experience platforms (UXPs), which form the key pillars of a modern digital platform. Drawing on his experience in various roles in numerous portal engagements, the author gives you different perspectives of the same technology platform. The first section introduces portal through multiple viewpoints to cater to a wide audience, including business, operations, development, integration, performance, and architecture views. The book details many novel and practically proven models and frameworks, such as portal value realization framework, portal assessment framework, portal evaluation model, portal infrastructure planning techniques, and portal integration techniques. You also learn about effective digital program strategies, including portal roadmap strategy, collaboration strategy, portal security planning, portal testing strategy, SEO, and analytics planning concepts. The second section dives into UXP and advanced topics. It elaborates on UXP design concepts, including UXP reference architecture, customer touch point analysis, user experience mapping, and responsive web design. It also looks at advanced topics, such as next-generation portals, portal trends, portal user experience strategy, omni-channel strategy, portal KPI, portal pitfalls and best practices, portal security, portal governance, digital program management, and portal performance engineering. In the third section, the book presents four case studies related to intranet portals, retail portals, customer service portals, and portal content management. It discusses business drivers, challenges, portal solutions, and solution benefits for each of the case studies. Written by a seasoned practitioner, this book balances the core topics of modern portals along with emerging technologies in the digital space. Suitable for the entire digital technology community, including IT managers, digital architects, developers, and testers, it provides you with a practical guide for successfully building best practices-based digital platforms with forward-looking features.