Business applications Books

PowerPoint is an incredibly powerful tool. Once you move past the basics of text and bullet points, there's a lot more you can do. Like add a table or a chart or a process flow. With enough time and motivation you can pretty much build anything you want...

Work in the corporate or academic worlds long enough and at some point you'll likely be asked to give a presentation. And most of the time the program you'll be expected to use is Microsoft PowerPoint.This book is an introductory guide to how to use...

To use statistical methods and SAS applications to forecast the future values of data taken over time, you need only follow this thoroughly updated classic on the subject. With this third edition of SAS for Forecasting Time Series,...

Explore the black box of business analytics and learn the methodology for managing and executing analytics projects.

This book is targeted to busy managers and MBA students who need to grasp the basics of computerized decision support. Some of the topics covered include: What is a DSS? What do managers need to know about computerized decision support? And how can...

Database systems have been driving dynamic web sites since the early 90s, and caching and materialization have been the major techniques to improve the performance, scalability, and manageability of such web databases. Different from a traditional...

Whether you're new to Office 97 or upgrading, this book has everything you need to maximize its powerful features and apply them to your own projects. It covers all five applications separately, and includes a section on how to integrate them -- so you...

This book helps you readily become familiar with Excel's power techniques and systematically tap into more and more of that power day by day. There are so many power techniques built into Excel and Win 95 that you are in serious danger of missing many of...

This book is written for those who are not familiar with computers, computer terminology or other spreadsheets. It is designed so that the user can start to use Quattro Pro immediately without having to wade through a 700 page manual of details and...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

The Secret Life of Word: A Professional Writer's Guide to Microsoft Word Automation, looks at Word from the perspective of technical and other professional writers. It gives writers an in-depth look at the hidden capabilities of Word, and shows how to...

Start dealing with numbers, spreadsheet, data analysis and formulas like a pro. Learn how to make Excel worksheets part of your website so that visitors to the website can use it to perform any calculations even mortgage including Amortization Schedule...

Plenty of examples and case studies utilize Mathematica 7's newest tools, such as dynamic manipulations and adaptive three-dimensional plotting.  Emphasizes the breadth of Mathematica and the impressive results of combining...

This book describes the state-of-the-art in ontology-driven information systems (ODIS) and gives a complete perspective on the problems, solutions and open research questions in this field. The book covers four broad areas:...

The author thoroughly describes and analyzes the most significant systems methodologies-`organizations as systems,' hard, soft, cybernetic, and critical-and demonstrates the complementary strengths of different systems...

Bots & Bosses: The Hilariously Chaotic Symphony of Management in the Age of AI is a comprehensive yet accessible guide that helps managers understand how AI can enhance their work rather than threaten it. This book helps to illuminate how...

Welcome to a delightful journey through the enthralling world of Artificial Intelligence (AI), where humor meets high-tech, and codes crack jokes-Have you ever wondered about the brainy secrets behind your digital assistant or why robots might want to...

The IT organization has changed little over the past twenty-five years. But powerful market forces and wonderful new technologies are colliding to create a fundamentally different set of needs and expectations. The IT Imperative outlines a new model for...

The term "sustainability" has entered the lexicon of many academic disciplines and fields of professional practice, but to date does not appear to have been seriously consid­ ered within the systems community unless, perhaps,...