B2B Integration: A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-Commerce

B2B Integration: A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-Commerce

...this guide reveals the key elements of successful B2B integration and collaborative e-commercie by highlighting business needs, technologies and development strategies

Building the E-Service Society: E-Commerce, E-Business, and E-Government (IFIP International Federation for Information Processing)

Building the E-Service Society: E-Commerce, E-Business, and E-Government (IFIP International Federation for Information Processing)

Building the E-Service Society is a state-of-the-art book which deals with innovative trends in communication systems, information processing, and security and trust in electronic commerce, electronic business, and electronic government. It comprises the proceedings of I3E2004, the Fourth International Conference on E-Commerce, E-Business, and E-Government, which was held in August 2004 as a co-located conference of the 18^th IFIP World Computer Congress in Toulouse, France, and sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).

The book contains recent results and developments in the following areas:

E-Government:
E-Government Models and Processes,
E-Governance,
Service Provisioning.

E-Business:
Infrastructures and Marketplaces,
M-Commerce,
Purchase and Payment.

E-Commerce:
Value Chain Management,
E-Business Architectures and Processes,
E-Business Models.

Business to Business Electronic Commerce: Challenges and Solutions

Business to Business Electronic Commerce: Challenges and Solutions

In the mid 1990s, the widespread adoption of the web browser led to a rapid commercialization of the Internet. In addition, initial success stories were reported from companies that learned how to create an effective direct marketing channel - selling tangible products to consumers directly with the World Wide Web. By the end of the 1990s, the next revolution began - called business-to-business electronic commerce. Business to Business Electronic Commerce will provide researchers and practitioners alike with a source of knowledge related to this emerging area of business.

e-Business Strategies for Virtual Organizations (Computer Weekly Professional)

e-Business Strategies for Virtual Organizations (Computer Weekly Professional)


'e-Business Strategies for Virtual Organizations' enables IT managers and directors to develop and implement IT strategies and infrastructures for new models of doing business based on the Internet.

The authors provide a brief introduction to the concepts and strategic issues surrounding information warfare, managing organizational knowledge, and the information economy. The virtual organization is now an important business model for contemporary business organizations and the flexibility and adaptability of the virtual organization make it ideal for survival in today's highly competitive and dynamically changing markets. Modern corporations may utilize some of the features of the virtual organization to develop the ideal organization to a greater or lesser extent depending on individual business circumstances. This book covers the issues involved in planning, realizing and managing such a virtual organization, and the role of information and communication technologies in supporting virtual organizations and virtual organizing is addressed throughout.

Provides a comprehensive set of business models for an e-business
Includes global cases and assignments and full web references
Focus on business issues rather than technology issues

HP-UX 11i Systems Administration Handbook and Toolkit, Second Edition

HP-UX 11i Systems Administration Handbook and Toolkit, Second Edition

This guide for HP-UX administrators covers the basics of HP-UX system administration and partitions, as well as supplying background information on UNIX. Chapters focus on topics such as booting, installation, volume management, building a kernel, startup and shutdown scripts, users and groups, networking and configuration, virtual partitions, nPartitions, UNIX file systems, viewing files, UNIX tools, shell programming, and a range of specific programs and applications. A companion CD-ROM contains trial versions of various tools and summery information for key tasks. Poniatowski is a computer scientist and software architect.

Essential System Administration, Third Edition

Essential System Administration, Third Edition

Essential System Administration,3rd Edition is the definitive guide for Unix system administration, covering all the fundamental and essential tasks required to run such divergent Unix systems as AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Tru64 and more. Essential System Administration provides a clear, concise, practical guide to the real-world issues that anyone responsible for a Unix system faces daily. The new edition of this indispensable reference has been fully updated for all the latest operating systems. Even more importantly, it has been extensively revised and expanded to consider the current system administrative topics that administrators need most. Essential System Administration,3rd Edition covers: DHCP, USB devices, the latest automation tools, SNMP and network management, LDAP, PAM, and recent security tools and techniques. Essential System Administration is comprehensive. But what has made this book the guide system administrators turn to over and over again is not just the sheer volume of valuable information it provides, but the clear, useful way the information is presented. It discusses the underlying higher-level concepts, but it also provides the details of the procedures needed to carry them out. It is not organized around the features of the Unix operating system, but around the various facets of a system administrator's job. It describes all the usual administrative tools that Unix provides, but it also shows how to use them intelligently and efficiently. Whether you use a standalone Unix system, routinely provide administrative support for a larger shared system, or just want an understanding of basic administrative functions, Essential System Administration is for you. This comprehensive and invaluable book combines the author's years of practical experience with technical expertise to help you manage Unix systems as productively and painlessly as possible.

Handbook of Granular Computing

Handbook of Granular Computing

Although the notion is a relatively recent one, the notions and principles of Granular Computing (GrC) have appeared in a different guise in many related fields including granularity in Artificial Intelligence, interval computing, cluster analysis, quotient space theory and many others. Recent years have witnessed a renewed and expanding interest in the topic as it begins to play a key role in bioinformatics, e-commerce, machine learning, security, data mining and wireless mobile computing when it comes to the issues of effectiveness, robustness and uncertainty.

The Handbook of Granular Computing offers a comprehensive reference source for the granular computing community, edited by and with contributions from leading experts in the field. Â

• Includes chapters covering the foundations of granular computing, interval analysis and fuzzy set theory; hybrid methods and models of granular computing; and applications and case studies.
• Divided into 5 sections: Preliminaries, Fundamentals, Methodology and Algorithms, Development of Hybrid Models and Applications and Case Studies.
• Presents the flow of ideas in a systematic, well-organized manner, starting with the concepts and motivation and proceeding to detailed design that materializes in specific algorithms, applications and case studies.
• Provides the reader with a self-contained reference that includes all pre-requisite knowledge, augmented with step-by-step explanations of more advanced concepts.

The Handbook of Granular Computing represents a significant and valuable contribution to the literature and will appeal to a broad audience including researchers, students and practitioners in the fields of Computational Intelligence, pattern recognition, fuzzy sets and neural networks, system modelling, operations research and bioinformatics.Â

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services (SQL Server Series)

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services (SQL Server Series)

Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services provides fast access to data by means of multidimensional data structures and the multidimensional query languag MDX. Analysis Services provides the capability to design, create, and manage multidimensional cubes based on data warehouse tables, and it serves as the foundation for the Microsoft Business Intelligence strategy.

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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services gives the reader insight into the way Analysis Services functions. It not only explains ways to design and create multidimensional objects, databases, dimensions, and cubes, but also provides invaluable information about the reasons behind design decisions made by the development team.Â

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Here's what you will find inside:

• Understand the key concepts of multidimensional modeling
• Explore the multidimensional object model and its definition language
• Learn the main concepts of the MDX language and gain an in-depth understanding of advanced MDX concepts
• Understand the mechanisms of integrating multidimensional and relational databases
• Learn how to build client applications to access data in Analysis Services
• Examine server architecture, including main data structures, data processing, and query resolution algorithms
• Gain a deep understanding of the internal and external protocols for data transfer, including the XML/A protocol
• Explore how Analysis Services manages memory
• Explore the security model, including role-based security, code-access security, and data security
• Discover how to monitor and manage Analysis Services

All the code for the sample database used in the book can be found at www.informit.com/title/0672327821.

Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++, Second Edition: Event-Driven Programming for Embedded Systems

Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++, Second Edition: Event-Driven Programming for Embedded Systems


Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++ Second Edition bridges the gap between high-level abstract concepts of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and the actual programming aspects of modern hierarchical state machines (UML statecharts). The book describes a lightweight, open source, event-driven infrastructure, called QP that enables direct manual coding UML statecharts and concurrent event-driven applications in C or C++ without big tools.
This book is presented in two parts. In Part I, you get a practical description of the relevant state machine concepts starting from traditional finite state automata to modern UML state machines followed by state machine coding techniques and state-machine design patterns, all illustrated with executable examples. In Part II, you find a detailed design study of a generic real-time framework indispensable for combining concurrent, event-driven state machines into robust applications. Part II begins with a clear explanation of the key event-driven programming concepts such as inversion of control (Hollywood Principle), blocking versus non-blocking code, run-to-completion (RTC) execution semantics, the importance of event queues, dealing with time, and the role of state machines to maintain the context from one event to the next. This background is designed to help software developers in making the transition from the traditional sequential to the modern event-driven programming, which can be one of the trickiest paradigm shifts.
The lightweight QP event-driven infrastructure goes several steps beyond the traditional real-time operating system (RTOS). In the simplest configuration, QP runs on bare-metal microprocessor, microcontroller, or DSP completely replacing the RTOS. QP can also work with almost any OS/RTOS to take advantage of the existing device drivers, communication stacks, and other middleware. The accompanying website to this book contains complete open source code for QP, ports to popular processors and operating systems, including 80x86, ARM Cortex-M3, MSP430, and Linux, as well as all examples described in the book.

*Focuses on core concepts rather than tools which are always changing allowing the reader to continue to use this information with various projects
*Provides a complete, ready-to-use, open source software architecture for small and large embedded systems
*Includes an extensive example using the ARM Cortex-M3 throughout the book highlighting issues programmers and architects encounter in everyday life

Data Mining for Intelligence, Fraud & Criminal Detection: Advanced Analytics & Information Sharing Technologies

Every organization, bureau, agency, and corporation has fundamental analytical needs that traditionally require a significant amount of data integration and resources. Whether investigating money laundering, insider trading, insurance fraud, or terrorist behavior, the analytical processes and systems architectures are very similar. In fact, the types of patterns exposed in one domain can often be translated into another. This book reviews the commonality, framework, and infrastructures necessary to implement complex analytical systems. It addresses analytical approaches, technologies, and methodologies, as well as information sharing and how current fusion-centers are being architected.

VoIP Handbook: Applications, Technologies, Reliability, and Security

VoIP Handbook: Applications, Technologies, Reliability, and Security


The number of worldwide VoIP customers is well over 38 million and thanks to popularity of inexpensive, high quality services such as skype is projected to increase to nearly 250 million within the next three years. The future of voice transport has officially arrived.

The VoIP Handbook: Applications, Technologies, Reliability, and Securitycaptures the current state of VoIP technology and serves as the comprehensive reference on this soon-to-be ubiquitous technology.

· A step-by-step methodology to evaluate VoIP performance  prior to network implementation

· An invaluable overview of implementation challenges and several VoIP multipoint conference systems

· Unparalleled coverage of design and engineering issues such VoIP traffic, QoS requirements, and VoIP flow

As this promising technology’s popularity increases, new demands for improved quality, reduced cost, and seamless operation will only increase. Edited by preeminent wireless communications experts Ahson and Illyas, the VoIP Handbook guides you to successful deployment.

Advanced Router Architectures

Advanced Router Architectures


Routers, switches, and transmission equipment form the backbone of the Internet, yet many users and service technicians do not understand how these nodes really work. Advanced Router Architectures addresses how components of advanced routers work together and how they are integrated with each other. This book provides the background behind why these building blocks perform certain functions, and how the function is implemented in general use. It offers an introduction to the subject matter that is intended to trigger deeper interest from the reader. The book explains, for example, why traffic management may be important in certain applications, what the traffic manager does, and how it connects to the rest of the router. The author also examines the implications of the introduction or omission of a traffic manager into an advanced router. The text offers a similar analysis for other router topics such as QOS and policy enforcement, security processing (including DoS/DDoS), and more. This book covers which mandatory and which optional building blocks can be found in an advanced router, and how these building blocks operate in conjunction to ensure that the Internet performs as expected.

Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition

Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition

Software Product Management and Pricing: Key Success Factors for Software Organizations

Software Product Management and Pricing: Key Success Factors for Software Organizations


Software product Management and pricing are key success factors for any organization providing software, be it a software company or an organization responsible for software in a company that belongs to a different industry. After defining the term "software product" and looking at the business and organizational sides, the core elements of software product management and pricing are discussed. Recommendations are given on how to deal with these elements depending on different types of organizations and products in order to achieve the long-term success

Embedded DSP Processor Design, Volume 2: Application Specific Instruction Set Processors (Systems on Silicon)

Embedded DSP Processor Design, Volume 2: Application Specific Instruction Set Processors (Systems on Silicon)



This book provides design methods for Digital Signal Processors and Application Specific Instruction set Processors, based on the author's extensive, industrial design experience. Top-down and bottom-up design methodologies are presented, providing valuable guidance for both students and practicing design engineers.

Coverage includes design of internal-external data types, application specific instruction sets, micro architectures, including designs for datapath and control path, as well as memory sub systems. Integration and verification of a DSP-ASIP processor are discussed and reinforced with extensive examples.

* Instruction set design for application specific processors based on fast application profiling
* Micro architecture design methodology
* Micro architecture design details based on real examples
* Extendable architecture design protocols
* Design for efficient memory sub systems (minimizing on chip memory and cost)
* Real example designs based on extensive, industrial experiences

Design of Ultra Wideband Antenna Matching Networks: Via Simplified Real Frequency Technique (Signals and Communication Technology)

Design of Ultra Wideband Antenna Matching Networks: Via Simplified Real Frequency Technique (Signals and Communication Technology)

Design of Ultra Wideband Antenna Matching Networks: via Simplified Real Frequency Technique (SRFT) will open up a new horizon for design engineers, researchers, undergraduate and graduate students to construct multi-band and ultra wideband antenna matching networks for antennas which in turn will push the edge of technology to manufacture new generation of complex communication systems beyond microwave frequencies both in commercial and military line.

In Design of Ultra Wideband Antenna Matching Networks, many real life examples are presented to design antenna matching networks over HF and cellular commercial multi-band frequencies. For each example, open MatLab source codes are provided so that the reader can easily generate and verify the results of the examples included in the book.

Rightshore!: Successfully Industrialize SAP® Projects Offshore

Rightshore!: Successfully Industrialize SAP® Projects Offshore

At a time when business demands urge companies to innovate and CIOs face increasing cost pressures, offshore delivery offers the opportunity to industrialize the implementation processes for system harmonization, consolidation, and enhancement, thereby realizing substantial cost savings and quality improvements. Rightshore^® - a registered trademark of Capgemini - is about organizing the distributed delivery process that embraces on-site, nearshore and offshore services.

This book describes successful global delivery models utilizing industrialized methods to deliver SAP^® projects from India. While the first part is devoted to management concepts, service offerings and the peculiarities of working together with India, the second part features eight case studies from different industries and from around the world describing how India delivery centers have been successfully deployed in SAP^® development projects

Business Information Warehouse for SAP (Prima Tech's Sap Book Series)

Business Information Warehouse for SAP (Prima Tech's Sap Book Series)


Describes the inner workings of SAP BW, from its evolution into a warehouse to its architecture and structure, discussing how SAP compares with other data warehouse vendors. The CD-ROM contains resources like books, Web sites, and vendors, sample code with simple programs, and 18 screen cam movies demonstrating SAP BW.

Sams Teach Yourself SAP in 24 Hours (2nd Edition) (Sams Teach Yourself in 24 Hours)

Sams Teach Yourself SAP in 24 Hours (2nd Edition) (Sams Teach Yourself in 24 Hours)


Sams Teach Yourself SAP in 24 Hours, Second Edition is the perfect tool for learning one of the most sophisticated enterprise solutions available today. Designed to being with the basics, you will become acquainted with the entire SAP system, from navigation to creating your own reports. You'll also cover:

• Implementation tools and methodologies
  
• NetWeaver
  
• ECC 5.0
  
• Designing Screens and menus
  
• Reporting
  
• Integration with Microsoft Office
  
• And more
  

Written by leading SAP consultants with over 20 years of combined experience, this easy-to-understand tutorial is ideal for getting up and running with SAP quickly and efficiently

Upgrading SAP (with CD-ROM)(Computer Science)(Business)(SAP R/3) (Computer Science)

Upgrading SAP (with CD-ROM)(Computer Science)(Business)(SAP R/3) (Computer Science)

The purpose of this book is to remove the veil of secrecy surrounding SAP upgrade techniques and concepts, and to provide the user with a detailed description of the steps needed for a successful implementation. This popular, but very complex software system must be constantly reconfigured and upgraded to accommodate its latest releases. This book provides a complete overview of the process to upgrade from one SAP release to the next one and explains with detailed descriptions, the use of all relevant SAP upgrade tools. Along with a technical description of the SAP NetWeaver Application Server (AS), it also discusses personnel issues and the economic ramifications of such an upgrade project. Examples in this book are based on various different SAP products and releases, such as SAP NetWeaver 2004, 2004S (also known as NetWeaver 7.0 and 7.1), and SAP Business Suite 2005 with SAP ERP 6.0, BI, CRM, SCM, and SRM. Conceived as both a teaching book and as a reference manual, it covers all the techniques, background information, notes, tips, and tricks needed for any SAP upgrade project. A CD-ROM accompanies the book with templates and outlines for the upgrading process, as well as third-party SAP related material. Features Examples in this book are based on various different SAP products and releases, such as SAP NetWeaver 2004, 2004S (also known as 7.0) and 7.1 and SAP Business Suite 2005 with ERP, BI, CRM, SCM and SRM Includes a CD-ROM accompanies the book with templates, Power Point slides, and outlines for the upgrading process, as well as third-party SAP related material Brief Table of Contents(Selected Topics Only) 1. Introduction 2.What Is SAP Software? 3. SAP Layers and Architecture. 4. SAP Software Logistics. 5. Reason For Upgrading. 6. Difference between Upgrade and Implementation. 7. Hardware Related Items. 8. Upgrade Technology 9.Unicode Conversion. 10. Upgrade Project Management. 11. Third Party Tools. 12. SAP New Dimensions Products. 13. SAP Netweaver Java AS. 14. Support Tools. 15. The Direction of SAP. About the CD. Index.

mySAP CRM: The Offcial Guidebook to SAP CRM Release 4.0

mySAP CRM: The Offcial Guidebook to SAP CRM Release 4.0

SAP® NetWeaver Portal Technology: The Complete Reference

SAP® NetWeaver Portal Technology: The Complete Reference


Your Hands-on Guide to SAP NetWeaver Portal Technology

Master SAP NetWeaver Portal with the most comprehensive, step-by-step reference available on the entire portal implementation life cycle. Written by SAP architect Rabi Jay, this book provides everything you need to plan, design, install, configure, and administer SAP NetWeaver Portal, including SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java.

SAP NetWeaver Portal Technology: The Complete Reference is filled with detailed descriptions, numerous illustrations, and hundreds of expert tips. Design and deploy portals with high availability, scalability, and performance. Implement single sign-on to backend systems and integrate SAP and non-SAP applications. Configure reliable J2EE engine and portal security, and devise a flawless portal backup and restore strategy. Improve performance using portal workload, GC, thread dump, and HTTP analysis.

• Plan futuristically using PAM, release planning, and maintenance strategy
• Design global portals using federated portal networks and external-facing portals
• Implement self-registration and delegated user and content administration
• Enable authorization using security zones, UME actions, and ACL permissions
• Manage users centrally using LDAP, UME, and Identity Management
• Implement user-, type-, and attribute-based authentication
• Brand your portal using portal desktop rules, themes, and framework pages
• Configure portal transports, and deploy patches and business packages using JSPM
• Monitor your portal using CCMS and GRMG Availability Monitoring
• Manage your portal centrally using NWA and maintain systems using SLD

The 123s of ABC in SAP: Using SAP R/3 to Support Activity-Based Costing

The 123s of ABC in SAP: Using SAP R/3 to Support Activity-Based Costing


Incorporate the Benefits of Activity-Based Costing into the Efficiencies of Your SAP R/3 System

Given SAP's dominance in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market, many companies and their managers encounter SAP AG applications in some form or another. Many of these organizations have recognized the value of utilizing Activity-Based Costing/Management concepts to perform more accurate cost assignments or drive performance initiatives. Managers are then faced with trying to determine how Activity-Based Costing can be incorporated into the SAP environment. The 123s of ABC in SAP is the first book of its kind designed to help business managers understand the capabilities of the SAP R/3 business application to support Activity-Based Costing, Management, and Budgeting.

Divided into three parts-the conceptual foundation, the capabilities of SAP ABC, and integration with other tools-the book provides readers with the following:

• An explanation of how Activity-Based Costing can be used with SAP
• Helpful hints for implementing ABC into SAP
• Insights into the most common difficulties and potential solutions when implementing ABC into SAP
• Summary tables that highlight key decisions to be made, implementation hints, and organizational challenges
• Detailed descriptions of SAP software applications to support the Activity-Based Costing approach as well as the integration of SAP R/3 with Oros software
• Examples of the tandem usage of Resource Consumption Accounting with Activity-Based Costing

Special Edition Using SAP R/3 (3rd Edition)

Special Edition Using SAP R/3 (3rd Edition)