The world of banking is speeding up and changes are rippling across the globe with blazing speed. If your organization is slow to respond, you will fall behind. One of the best investments you can make in this technology-driven marketplace is to empower your employees to make fast, smart decisions. To do that, you need to arm them with modern, integrated corporate performance management tools to maximize their ability to set goals, adjust plans and budgets, and monitor performance. “Enabli...

Tips, techniques, and trends on harnessing dashboard technology to optimize business performanceIn Performance Dashboards, Second Edition, author Wayne Eckerson explains what dashboards are, where they can be used, and why they are important to measuring and managing performance. As Director of Research for The Data Warehousing Institute, a worldwide association of business intelligence professionals, Eckerson interviewed dozens of organizations that have ...

Data warehousing is one of the hottest business topics, and there’s more to understanding data warehousing technologies than you might think. Find out the basics of data warehousing and how it facilitates data mining and business intelligence with Data Warehousing For Dummies, 2nd Edition.Data is probably your company’s most important asset, so your data warehouse should serve your needs. The fully updated Second Edition of Data Warehousing For Dummies he...

Focusing on designing the right dashboards for use in an organization, this timely, full color book reveals how to successfully deploy dashboards by building the optimal software architecture and dashboard design. In addition, it describes the value of this popular technology to a business and how it can have a significant impact on performance improvement. A unique collection of more than 120 dashboard images are organized by category. One of the chapters provides a step-by-step descripti...

The world's leading expert on the global software industry and coauthor of the bestseller Microsoft Secrets reveals the inner workings of software giants like IBM, Microsoft, and Netscape and shows what it takes to create, develop, and manage a successful company -- in good times and bad -- in the most fiercely competitive business in the world.In the $600 billion software industry it is the business, not the technology, that determines success or failure. This fact -- one that thou...

Third Edition: Thoroughly Updated and Expanded, with Extensive New Coverage!In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you’ll master the entire SAP project lifecycle, from planning through implementation and system administration through day-to-day operations. Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll gain a strong real-world foundation in both the technology and business essentials of today’s SAP products and applications—from the ground up.

Note: This pocket book is available in several languages: English, German, French.This Pocket Guide is a concise summary of ITIL® V 3. A quick, portable reference tool to this leading standard within the Service Management community.What are the key service management processes? What is the lifecycle approach?

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Expanded to cover the latest in business intelligence—big data, cloud, mobile, visual data discovery, and in-memory—this fully updated bestseller by BI guru Cindi Howson provides the most modern techniques to exploit BI for the highest ROI. Written by industry analyst and BI consultant Cindi Howson, Successful Business Intelligence: Unlock the Value of BI and Big Data, Second Edition reveals how to get the most value out of BI investments. The book draws on exclusive survey...

The author has collected the experiences of organizations, quality managers and auditors who have actually worked with the present version of the PMBOK standard. This hard-won experience is presented here in this leading guide to understanding and satisfying the requirements of PMBOK, and to applying the principles that underpin this internationally recognized family of standards for managing and communicating quality of Management Processes.This best-selling PMBOK quality manageme...

Aimed at helping business and IT managers clearly communicate with each other, this helpful book addresses concerns straight-on and provides practical methods to building a collaborative data warehouse . You’ll get clear explanations of the goals and objectives of each stage of the data warehouse lifecycle while learning the roles that both business managers and technicians play at each stage. Discussions of the most critical decision points for success at each phase of the data warehouse ...

IT Manager's Handbook: The Business Edition is a MUST-HAVE guide for the advancing technology professional who is looking to move up into a supervisory role, and is ideal for newly-promoted IT managers who needs to quickly understand their positions. It uses IT–related examples to discuss business topics and recognizes the ever-changing and growing demands of IT in today's world as well as how these demands impact those who work in the field. Specific attention is paid to the latest issues...