Description: With Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services you can quickly deliver relevant business intelligence data wherever it’s needed–across the entire enterprise, and through the entire reporting lifecycle. SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed gives you all the authoritative information you’ll need to make the most of Microsoft’s most powerful reporting platform as a database professional, manager, or user. In-depth coverage makes this book an ideal reference, and its extensive set of practical examples help you address virtually any challenge in deployment, configuration, administration, or report building.

Description: Design, implement, and maintain a distributed environment with Oracle Streams
Implement Oracle Streams to manage and coordinate the resources, information, and functions of a distributed system
Get to grips with in-depth explanations of the components that make up Oracle Streams, and how they work together
Learn design considerations that help identify and avoid Oracle Streams obstacles - before you get caught in them
Covers implementation steps with explanations of 'why' as well as 'how'

Description: The past decade has witnessed a fruitful proliferation of increasingly high performance scalable computing systems mainly due to the availability of enabling technologies in hardware, software, and networks.

The Handbook of Research on Scalable Computing Technologies presents ideas, results, and experiences in significant advancements and future challenges of enabling technologies. A defining body of research on topics such as service-oriented computing, data-intensive computing, and cluster and grid computing, this Handbook of Research contains valuable findings for those involved with developing programming tools and environments in computing as well as those in related upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses.

Description: Delve inside the core SQL Server engine—and put that knowledge to work—with guidance from a team of well-known internals experts. Whether database developer, architect, or administrator, you’ll gain the deep knowledge you need to exploit key architectural changes—and capture the product’s full potential.

Description: A hands-on resource for SQL Server 2008 troubleshooting methods and tools

SQL Server administrators need to ensure that SQL Server remains running 24/7. Authored by leading SQL Server experts and MVPs, this book provides in-depth coverage of best practices based on a deep understanding of the internals of both SQL Server and the Windows operating system.

Description: The role of IT is changing as businesses depend more and more on technology as a critical component to their success. This Business Edition of the IT Manager's Handbook series is targeted to help IT leaders make this transition possible, and provides new guidance on how an IT leader can help transform into a business partner. - Jim Chilton, Chief Information Officer, Americas - Dassault Systemes After learning how to manage a team of developers the hard way - making my share of mistakes in the real world - I now wish I had read some books on management before entering the workforce. This book provides a clear, easy-to-use resource for a technical person who is moving into management.

Description: A social revolution in how we communicate has taken place in recent years. Smartphones, social web tools, and the instant availability of information in an aggregated and organized way provide real-time intelligence to customers, not just the enterprise.

Social CRM is critical to business success in today's hyper-connected environment. Customers' expectations are so great and their demands so empowered that a Social CRM strategy must be built around collaboration and customers engagement, not traditional operational customer management. It's the company's response to the customer's control of the conversation that makes Social CRM work.

Description: This edited book reports on the state-of-the-art research and development progress in promoting the synergism of two cutting-edge technologies – agents and data mining. The volume presents the methodologies, algorithms and systems that integrate these two technologies. The text highlights:

Description: Managing and Mining Graph Data is a comprehensive survey book in graph data analytics. It contains extensive surveys on important graph topics such as graph languages, indexing, clustering, data generation, pattern mining, classification, keyword search, pattern matching, and privacy. It also studies a number of domain-specific scenarios such as stream mining, web graphs, social networks, chemical and biological data. The chapters are written by leading researchers, and provide a broad perspective of the area. This is the first comprehensive survey book in the emerging topic of graph data processing.

Description: There has never been a Siebel Guide like this. 100 Success Secrets is not about the ins and outs of Siebel. Instead, it answers the top 100 questions that we are asked and those we come across in forums, our consultancy and education programs. It tells you exactly how to deal with those questions, with tips that have never before been offered in print. This book is also not about Siebel's best practice and standards details. Instead, it introduces everything you want to know to be successful with Siebel.