Safari Books Online is a digital library providing on-demand subscription access to thousands of learning resources.
Collapse
Featured Categories
Technology Management
181. |  Computing Information Technology: The Human Side By: Steven Gordon - Babson College, USA Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 01-APR-2003 Insert Date: 12-FEB-2005 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Computing Information Technology: The Human Side From the senior management to the clerical
and support group levels, this study addresses the possible
pitfalls and triumphs of implementing information technology (IT)
into organizations in terms of organizational strategies,
structures, and communication methods. Issues of human-computer
interaction, ethics, privacy, and security are raised to help
facilitate a sociopragmatic and constuctivist understanding of IT
culture.
...
|
182. |  Current Issues in IT Education By: Tanya McGill - Murdoch University, Australia Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 01-MAR-2003 Insert Date: 12-FEB-2005 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Current Issues in IT Education Addressing the ongoing quest for teaching
excellence in an increasingly technological society, the
information presented in this volume addresses how to effectively
implement teaching technologies across disciplinary boundaries. The
scholarly dimensions of belief, inquiry, argument, and reflection
in information systems are presented with attention to educational
theories of metacognition, technology literacy, and community
informatics. Training for e-business and public agency work are
discussed to better equip instructors for the distinctive
information needs of these sectors.
...
|
183. |  By: Enid Mumford - Manchester University, UK Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 01-MAR-2003 Insert Date: 12-FEB-2005 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Redesigning Human Systems Organizational change is becoming
increasingly complex, challenging and difficult to handle as
technology advances. And there is a need to discuss how it can be
both more effectively managed by large and small organizations,
while at the same time the strategies for changes are based on
ethical notions of democracy and participation. Redesigning Human
Systems assists those interested in and responsible for the
management of major change within organizations, and provides the
theories and values that should be adhered to in order to achieve
that change successfully and effectively.
...
|
184. |  Annals of Cases on Information Technology By: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour - Information Resources Management Association, USA Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 01-FEB-2004 Insert Date: 12-FEB-2005 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Annals of Cases on Information Technology Annals of Cases on Information Technology
provides a collection of case studies focusing on IT implementation
in organizations. The cases included in Volume VI describe
successful projects and offer advice on how to achieve these best
practices. They also look at IT project failures and describe steps
to avoid pitfalls in the path to successful IT utilization. The
organizations described in this book represent small businesses,
educational institutions, public and private corporations and
describe may aspects of IT implementation including, e-commerce
endeavors, intelligent technologies,...
|
185. |  Humanizing Information Technology: Advice from Experts By: Shannon Howle Schelin - University of North Carolina, USA and North Carolina State University, USA; G. David Garson - North Carolina State University, USA Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 01-MAR-2004 Insert Date: 12-FEB-2005 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Humanizing Information Technology: Advice from Experts With the alarming rate of information
technology changes over the past two decades, it is not unexpected
that there is an evolution of the human side of IT that has forced
many organizations to rethink their strategies in dealing with the
human side of IT. People, just like computers, are main components
of any information systems. And just as successful organizations
must be willing to upgrade their equipment and facilities, they
must also be alert to changing their viewpoints on various aspects
of human behavior. New and emerging technologies result in human
behavior responses which must be...
|
186. |  Executive Guide to Information Security, The: Threats, Challenges, and Solutions By: Mark Egan Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 30-NOV-2004 Insert Date: 10-FEB-2005 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Executive Guide to Information Security, The: Threats, Challenges, and Solutions Praise for The Executive Guide to Information
Security
"In today's world, no business can operate without securing its
computers. This book conveys that message in clear, concise terms
and acts as a tremendous primer to CEOs."
–from the Foreword by Richard A. Clarke
"Every CEO is responsible for protecting the assets of their
corporation–the people, intellectual property, corporate and
customer information, infrastructure, network, and computing
resources. This is becoming both more important and more difficult
with the rise in the number and sophistication of cyber threats.
This book...
|
187. |  Return on Software: Maximizing the Return on Your Software Investment By: Steve Tockey Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 16-AUG-2004 Insert Date: 18-DEC-2004 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Return on Software: Maximizing the Return on Your Software Investment "This pioneering book highlights critical, overlooked skills
needed by true software professionals."
Steve McConnell
CEO and Chief Software Engineering
Construx Software
"It's about time someone took this stuff seriously."
Steven Mellor
Chief Scientist
Embedded Systems Division
Mentor Graphics Corporation
Co-Author of Exploring the Role of Executable UML in
Model-Driven Architecture and six other books
"Despite the fact that engineering economics is considered a
core area of any engineering field, virtually no books have been
written in the area of software engineering economics....
|
188. |  Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law By: Lawrence Rosen Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 22-JUL-2004 Insert Date: 19-NOV-2004 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law
“I have studied Rosen’s book in detail and am
impressed with its scope and content. I strongly recommend it to
anybody interested in the current controversies surrounding open
source licensing.”
—John Terpstra, Samba.org; cofounder, Samba-Team
“Linux and open source software have forever altered the
computing landscape. The important conversations no longer revolve
around the technology but rather the business and legal issues.
Rosen’s book is must reading for anyone using or providing
open source solutions.”
—Stuart Open Source Development Labs
A Complete Guide to the Law...
|
189. |  By: Bernard Golden Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 10-AUG-2004 Insert Date: 07-NOV-2004 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Succeeding with Open Source
“Open source requires a fundamentally different operating
model in order for IT organizations to succeed. Succeeding
with Open Source is the first how-to book about selecting
open source software based on a product’s characteristics
such as quality, support, and longevity. Open source software is
here to stay. Golden provides an essential tool for evaluating its
usefulness/readiness for the corporation.”
—Martin Fink, Vice-President—Linux,
Hewlett-Packard, and author of The Business and Economics of
Linux and Open Source
“Open source software is transforming the way...
|
190. |  Performance by Design: Computer Capacity Planning by Example By: Daniel A. Menascé; Virgilio A.F. Almeida; Lawrence W. Dowdy Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 05-JAN-2004 Insert Date: 03-APR-2004 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Performance by Design: Computer Capacity Planning by Example Practical systems modeling: planning performance, availability,
security, and more
Computing systems must meet increasingly strict Quality of
Service (QoS) requirements for performance, availability, security,
and maintainability. To achieve these goals, designers, analysts,
and capacity planners need a far more thorough understanding of QoS
issues, and the implications of their decisions. Now, three leading
experts present a complete, application-driven framework for
understanding and estimating performance. You'll learn exactly how
to map real-life systems to accurate performance models,...
|
191. |  CIO Wisdom: Best Practices from Silicon Valley's Leading IT Experts By: Dean Lane Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 25-JUL-2003 Insert Date: 31-JAN-2004 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: CIO Wisdom: Best Practices from Silicon Valley's Leading IT Experts What it takes to be a truly great CIO... from the IT leaders who
know best
What does it take to get to the top in IT today, stay there, and
thrive? How do you realign IT to maximize business value, and
become a full strategic partner in the organization's most crucial
decisions? CIO Wisdom brings together answers from 20 of the
world's most successful senior IT executives. Based on their
extraordinary private discussions over the past five years, it
covers every facet of IT leadership: planning, budgeting, sourcing,
architecture, strategy, and much more. If you're an IT leader-or
you intend...
|
192. |  Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 10-OCT-2003 Insert Date: 19-DEC-2003 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions
Would you like to use a consistent visual notation for drawing
integration solutions? Look inside the front cover.
Do you want to harness the power of asynchronous systems
without getting caught in the pitfalls? See "Thinking
Asynchronously" in the Introduction.
Do you want to know which style of application integration is
best for your purposes? See Chapter 2, Integration
Styles.
Do you want to learn techniques for processing messages
concurrently? See Chapter 10, Competing Consumers and Message
Dispatcher.
Do you want to learn how you can track asynchronous messages as
they...
|
193. |  Radical Simplicity: Transforming Computers Into Me-Centric Appliances By: Dr. Frederick Hayes-Roth; Daniel Amor Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 25-FEB-2003 Insert Date: 19-SEP-2003 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Radical Simplicity: Transforming Computers Into Me-Centric Appliances Radical Simplicity: Transforming Computers Into
Me-Centric Appliances
The next computer revolution will be built around one person:
you
Imagine computers you can delegate to... computers that tell you
things you want to know about ... adapt to your needs and
preferences without being told ... work together on your behalf ...
and respond to your voice, language, and gestures. It's all coming,
sooner than you think -- and when it does, today's computers will
be recognized as the dinosaurs they are.
Radical Simplicity previews the "Me-Centric" computing
revolution, in which the vast power...
|
194. |  Managing Software for Growth: Without Fear, Control, and the Manufacturing Mindset By: Roy Miller Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 22-JUL-2003 Insert Date: 30-AUG-2003 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Managing Software for Growth: Without Fear, Control, and the Manufacturing Mindset The IT professional's guide to delivering exceptional software
development projects.
One of the biggest problems facing businesses today is the
effective delivery of software development projects. Recent surveys
show that almost 75% of software development projects are either
over budget, late, undeliverable, or cancelled outright. After more
than 30 years of making software in an increasingly global economy
dominated by technology, why is creating software still so
hard?
Software development expert Roy Miller answers this and other
questions in Managing Software for Growth, the first...
|
195. |  Internet Future Strategies: How Pervasive Computing Services Will Change the World By: Daniel Amor Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 23-JUL-2001 Insert Date: 22-AUG-2003 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Internet Future Strategies: How Pervasive Computing Services Will Change the World Leverage the next e-business revolution!
Dot.coms may be dead, but the Internet is alive and kicking.
What's more, it's transforming itself into a worldwide "pervasive
computing" network that will connect everything from mobile phones
to TV sets—and offer unprecedented business opportunities. In
this book, best-selling e-business consultant Daniel Amor
identifies the revolutionary technologies and
architectures—and the new business models—that will
enable breakthrough success in the next Internet revolution. You'll
discover how to:
Lay the groundwork for competitive advantage in an...
|
196. |  Services Blueprint: Roadmap for Execution By: Ravi Kalakota; Marcia Robinson Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 16-JUN-2003 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2003 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Services Blueprint: Roadmap for Execution
"This book provides managers with a strong, practical grounding
in the concepts that are critical to understanding the
transformation from front-end e-business to cross-enterprise
service platforms."
--Dr. Peter Zencke, Member of the Executive Board, SAP AG
The trend is clear: Corporations are increasingly relying on
technology-enabled services to gain a competitive edge.
E-Commerce->e-business->e-services->multi-channel
services. Industry leaders and followers alike are digitizing
services in order to become more customer-driven and
process-centric. To execute this service digitization...
|
197. |  Essential Guide to Computer Data Storage: From Floppy to DVD, The By: Andrei Khurshudov Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 07-JUN-2001 Insert Date: 31-JUL-2003 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Essential Guide to Computer Data Storage: From Floppy to DVD, The
The complete decision-maker's guide to choosing—and
using—the right data storage technologies
Personal and small business storage: hard drives, DVD, CD, Zip,
Jaz, and more
Enterprise storage: SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel, RAID, and
beyond
New Web-based storage alternatives
Start-to-finish backup and disaster recovery tips
Choosing reliable, cost-effective data storage
solutions—and making the most of them!
Whether you're an IT professional, enterprise manager, small
business owner, or home PC user, you've got more data than
ever—and choosing reliable, cost-effective...
|
198. |  Peer to Peer: Collaboration and Sharing over the Internet By: Bo Leuf Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 14-JUN-2002 Insert Date: 23-JAN-2003 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Peer to Peer: Collaboration and Sharing over the Internet “The author has given a well-written and comprehensive
overview of several representative peer-to-peer technologies. It is
diligently researched and gives a lot of insights into a
little-understood subject.”
—Erik Möller,
Scientific Review Service and infoArchy.org
“Interesting topic, well organized, engagingly written,
excellent illustrations; a good read. I think it does a
particularly good job of balancing technical, functional, business,
and legal information, and presenting it in a way that is useful
for both executive and technical people (which is no...
|
199. |  Understanding Open Source Software Development By: Joseph Feller; Brian Fitzgerald Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 31-DEC-2001 Insert Date: 11-JAN-2003 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Understanding Open Source Software Development Open Source Software Development offers the first serious (and
academically rigorous) study of the OSS phenomenon. The authors
examine several key aspects of OSS, for example:
Definitions of OSS and Free Software, including a comprehensive
guide to both OSS and non-OSS software licences.
Profiles of key OSS products, projects, companies and
organisations.
Analysis of the technological motivations for OSS development, with
explicit reference to the possibility of OSS addressing the
"software crisis."
...
|
200. |  Trusted Computing Platforms: TCPA Technology in Context By: Siani Pearson; Boris Balacheff; Liqun Chen; David Plaquin; Graeme Proudler Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 22-JUL-2002 Insert Date: 10-JAN-2003 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Trusted Computing Platforms: TCPA Technology in Context TCPA: Building computing platforms upon a solid foundation of
trust.
As businesses stake their very existence on the Internet, PCs,
PDAs, and other key computing platforms, the trustworthiness of
these platforms has become a vital concern. In response, the
Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) has delivered a complete
specification for building trusted computing platforms atop trusted
hardware. In Trusted Computing Platforms, leaders of the
initiative illuminate TCPA for every systems developer and
decision-maker. They place TCPA in context, outlining its goals,
techniques, and...
|
©2013 Safari Books Online