Biznes IT
Madhu Ramanujan
Salesforce CPQ is innovative software that enables you create better quotes, improve quoting accuracy, and maximize sales and deals. It also provides a quick analysis of profits and losses, helping you improve the overall execution of sales processes, and allows a great deal of flexibility for your prospects, customers, and business partners.The book starts with the Quote-2-Cash business process in Salesforce and shows you how to assess when a business needs to implement CPQ. You’ll then progress to configuring opportunities, quotes, and CPQ products. As you advance, you’ll understand how to define and configure price books, price rules for CPQ quote automation, multidimensional quoting, and more. Next, you'll look at how to configure CPQ guided selling and create package configurations, contracts, and amendments. Later chapters will demonstrate how to perform data migration from a legacy system and the order in which the objects are to be migrated. You’ll also explore CPQ billing and its advantages with the help of different use cases before learning about Industries CPQ and how it is different from standard Salesforce CPQ. Finally, you’ll discover best practices for achieving optimal CPQ performance and avoiding performance bottlenecks.By the end of this Salesforce book, you’ll be able to implement Salesforce CPQ for any business.
Craig M Jamieson
Smart businesses are taking advantage of new technologies to overcome the challenges and secure the opportunities arising from recent shifts to buyer behaviour. The single biggest challenge for businesses today is to retain the loyalty of your existing customers and to find a way of extending your reach to find new ones. Social CRM allows you to do precisely that, offering a platform from which you can manage your current customer base while building and extending it.Craig Jamieson, an expert in social sales, wants to unlock the power of Social CRM for your business. With this book he takes you through the process of integrating Social CRM within your business strategy. He explores how to evaluate your needs, and discusses choosing the right Social CRM system for your business, before looking closely at how to successfully implement the system with best practices to bring increased revenues.
Craig M Jamieson
Smart businesses are taking advantage of new technologies to overcome the challenges and secure the opportunities arising from recent shifts to buyer behaviour. The single biggest challenge for businesses today is to retain the loyalty of your existing customers and to find a way of extending your reach to find new ones. Social CRM allows you to do precisely that, offering a platform from which you can manage your current customer base while building and extending it.Craig Jamieson, an expert in social sales, wants to unlock the power of Social CRM for your business. With this book he takes you through the process of integrating Social CRM within your business strategy. He explores how to evaluate your needs, and discusses choosing the right Social CRM system for your business, before looking closely at how to successfully implement the system with best practices to bring increased revenues.
Craig M Jamieson
Smart businesses are taking advantage of new technologies to overcome the challenges and secure the opportunities arising from recent shifts to buyer behaviour. The single biggest challenge for businesses today is to retain the loyalty of your existing customers and to find a way of extending your reach to find new ones. Social CRM allows you to do precisely that, offering a platform from which you can manage your current customer base while building and extending it.Craig Jamieson, an expert in social sales, wants to unlock the power of Social CRM for your business. With this book he takes you through the process of integrating Social CRM within your business strategy. He explores how to evaluate your needs, and discusses choosing the right Social CRM system for your business, before looking closely at how to successfully implement the system with best practices to bring increased revenues.
Liu Peng
The Statistics and Machine Learning with R Workshop is a comprehensive resource packed with insights into statistics and machine learning, along with a deep dive into R libraries. The learning experience is further enhanced by practical examples and hands-on exercises that provide explanations of key concepts.Starting with the fundamentals, you’ll explore the complete model development process, covering everything from data pre-processing to model development. In addition to machine learning, you’ll also delve into R's statistical capabilities, learning to manipulate various data types and tackle complex mathematical challenges from algebra and calculus to probability and Bayesian statistics. You’ll discover linear regression techniques and more advanced statistical methodologies to hone your skills and advance your career.By the end of this book, you'll have a robust foundational understanding of statistics and machine learning. You’ll also be proficient in using R's extensive libraries for tasks such as data processing and model training and be well-equipped to leverage the full potential of R in your future projects.
The Successful Software Manager. The definitive guide to growing from developer to manager
Herman Fung, Tarry Singh
The Successful Software Manager is a comprehensive and practical guide to managing software developers, software customers, and the process of deciding what software needs to be built. It explains in detail how to develop a management mindset, lead a high-performing developer team, and meet all the expectations of a good manager.The book will help you whether you’ve chosen to pursue a career in management or have been asked to act up as a manager. Whether you’re a Development Manager, Product Manager, Team Leader, Solution Architect, or IT Director, this is your indispensable guide to all aspects of running your team and working within an organization and dealing with colleagues, customers, potential customers, and technologists, to ensure you build the product your organization needs.This book is the must-have authoritative guide to managing projects, managing people, and preparing yourself to be an effective manager. The intuitive real-life examples will act as a desk companion for any day-to-day challenge, and beyond that, Herman will show you how to prepare for the next stages and how to achieve career success.
Blaine Bateman, Ashish Ranjan Jha, Benjamin Johnston,...
Would you like to understand how and why machine learning techniques and data analytics are spearheading enterprises globally? From analyzing bioinformatics to predicting climate change, machine learning plays an increasingly pivotal role in our society.Although the real-world applications may seem complex, this book simplifies supervised learning for beginners with a step-by-step interactive approach. Working with real-time datasets, you’ll learn how supervised learning, when used with Python, can produce efficient predictive models.Starting with the fundamentals of supervised learning, you’ll quickly move to understand how to automate manual tasks and the process of assessing date using Jupyter and Python libraries like pandas. Next, you’ll use data exploration and visualization techniques to develop powerful supervised learning models, before understanding how to distinguish variables and represent their relationships using scatter plots, heatmaps, and box plots. After using regression and classification models on real-time datasets to predict future outcomes, you’ll grasp advanced ensemble techniques such as boosting and random forests. Finally, you’ll learn the importance of model evaluation in supervised learning and study metrics to evaluate regression and classification tasks.By the end of this book, you’ll have the skills you need to work on your real-life supervised learning Python projects.
Matthew Moocarme, Abhranshu Bagchi, Anthony So ,...
Getting to grips with tensors, deep learning, and neural networks can be intimidating and confusing for anyone, no matter their experience level. The breadth of information out there, often written at a very high level and aimed at advanced practitioners, can make getting started even more challenging.If this sounds familiar to you, The TensorFlow Workshop is here to help. Combining clear explanations, realistic examples, and plenty of hands-on practice, it’ll quickly get you up and running.You’ll start off with the basics – learning how to load data into TensorFlow, perform tensor operations, and utilize common optimizers and activation functions. As you progress, you’ll experiment with different TensorFlow development tools, including TensorBoard, TensorFlow Hub, and Google Colab, before moving on to solve regression and classification problems with sequential models.Building on this solid foundation, you’ll learn how to tune models and work with different types of neural network, getting hands-on with real-world deep learning applications such as text encoding, temperature forecasting, image augmentation, and audio processing.By the end of this deep learning book, you’ll have the skills, knowledge, and confidence to tackle your own ambitious deep learning projects with TensorFlow.
The Ultimate Zoom Cookbook. Over 100 recipes to enhance and engage communication with Zoom
Patrick Kelley
The last few years have completely changed the way we collaborate and communicate. Whether it’s internally with coworkers at a large enterprise or externally with prospective clients and customers, Zoom has created a new way to interact with people in real-time as well as asynchronously.This cookbook delves into all aspects of Zoom, moving beyond just meetings. You’ll get started by exploring key areas such as audio, video, chat, webinars, advanced reporting, and analytics. Next, you’ll progress from discovering simple Zoom video and audio calls to understanding features such as whiteboards, hardware integration, and phone capabilities. Gradually, you'll discover advanced techniques for effective content presentation, while configuring users and features from the admin portal. The last set of chapters cover advanced features on security and privacy as well as how to make the most of AI Companion to reach out to your audience with better content, clarity, and expertise.By the end of this Zoom book, you’ll be well-versed with the entire Zoom app and all the modalities available.
Aaron Jones , Christopher Kruger , Benjamin...
Do you find it difficult to understand how popular companies like WhatsApp and Amazon find valuable insights from large amounts of unorganized data? The Unsupervised Learning Workshop will give you the confidence to deal with cluttered and unlabeled datasets, using unsupervised algorithms in an easy and interactive manner.The book starts by introducing the most popular clustering algorithms of unsupervised learning. You'll find out how hierarchical clustering differs from k-means, along with understanding how to apply DBSCAN to highly complex and noisy data. Moving ahead, you'll use autoencoders for efficient data encoding.As you progress, you’ll use t-SNE models to extract high-dimensional information into a lower dimension for better visualization, in addition to working with topic modeling for implementing natural language processing (NLP). In later chapters, you’ll find key relationships between customers and businesses using Market Basket Analysis, before going on to use Hotspot Analysis for estimating the population density of an area.By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with the skills you need to apply unsupervised algorithms on cluttered datasets to find useful patterns and insights.
"Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition" 2016. Vol. 2 (2)
red. Danuta Gabryś-Barker, red. Adam Wojtaszek
Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, Volume 2, Issue 2 to trzeci numer nowopowstałego czasopisma (półrocznik) poświęconego pracom teoretycznym oraz badaniom empirycznym zajmującym się przyswajaniem języka drugiego oraz uczeniem się języka obcego. Jest czasopismem o zasięgu międzynarodowym, gromadzi bowiem Autorów z wielu środowisk akademickich poza Polską. Tegoroczny drugi numer koncentruje się na czynnikach kształtujących motywację do nauki języka obcego, roli blogów w promowaniu wielojęzyczności, przeplataniu się świata wirtualnego z rzeczywistym w kontekście nauczania języka obcego, problemu selektywnego mutyzmu wśród dzieci imigrantów, zmieniającej się roli native speaker’a we współczesnej glottodydaktyce oraz na wykształcaniu specjalistycznych umiejętności w ramach przyswajanego języka obcego. Tak jak poprzednie, obecny numer kierowany jest zarówno do badaczy procesów przyswajania języków, jak i do praktykujących glottodydaktyków.
Michaël Hoarau
Being a business analyst and data scientist, you have to use many algorithms and approaches to prepare, process, and build ML-based applications by leveraging time series data, but you face common problems, such as not knowing which algorithm to choose or how to combine and interpret them. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides numerous services to help you build applications fueled by artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. This book helps you get to grips with three AWS AI/ML-managed services to enable you to deliver your desired business outcomes.The book begins with Amazon Forecast, where you’ll discover how to use time series forecasting, leveraging sophisticated statistical and machine learning algorithms to deliver business outcomes accurately. You’ll then learn to use Amazon Lookout for Equipment to build multivariate time series anomaly detection models geared toward industrial equipment and understand how it provides valuable insights to reinforce teams focused on predictive maintenance and predictive quality use cases. In the last chapters, you’ll explore Amazon Lookout for Metrics, and automatically detect and diagnose outliers in your business and operational data.By the end of this AWS book, you’ll have understood how to use the three AWS AI services effectively to perform time series analysis.
Time Series with PyTorch. Modern Deep Learning Toolkit for Real-World Forecasting Challenges
Graeme Davidson, Lei Ma
Neural networks are powerful tools for time-series forecasting, but applying them effectively requires both practical experience and a clear understanding of architectures, training strategies, and evaluation methods. This book brings these ideas together in a structured and practical way.Starting with PyTorch fundamentals, you will build neural networks from scratch and progress through recurrent networks, attention mechanisms, and transformers before exploring forecasting architectures such as N-BEATS, N-HiTS, and the Temporal Fusion Transformer. Along the way, you will learn robust hyperparameter tuning, conformal prediction for uncertainty estimation, and reliable evaluation practices.Unlike most forecasting books, this text also explores topics often overlooked or treated separately, including transfer learning across collections of series, synthetic data generation with diffusion models, and self-supervised representation learning. Beyond forecasting, later chapters cover classification, clustering, anomaly detection, and embeddings for large-scale time-series modeling.Throughout, the focus is pragmatic: theory is reinforced through experimentation and implementation so you can apply these methods confidently to real-world time-series problems.
Gian Marco Iodice
This book explores TinyML, a fast-growing field at the unique intersection of machine learning and embedded systems to make AI ubiquitous with extremely low-powered devices such as microcontrollers.The TinyML Cookbook starts with a practical introduction to this multidisciplinary field to get you up to speed with some of the fundamentals for deploying intelligent applications on Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense and Raspberry Pi Pico. As you progress, you’ll tackle various problems that you may encounter while prototyping microcontrollers, such as controlling the LED state with GPIO and a push-button, supplying power to microcontrollers with batteries, and more. Next, you’ll cover recipes relating to temperature, humidity, and the three “V” sensors (Voice, Vision, and Vibration) to gain the necessary skills to implement end-to-end smart applications in different scenarios. Later, you’ll learn best practices for building tiny models for memory-constrained microcontrollers. Finally, you’ll explore two of the most recent technologies, microTVM and microNPU that will help you step up your TinyML game.By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with best practices and machine learning frameworks to develop ML apps easily on microcontrollers and have a clear understanding of the key aspects to consider during the development phase.
Gian Marco Iodice
Discover the incredible world of tiny Machine Learning (tinyML) and create smart projects using real-world data sensors with the Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense, Raspberry Pi Pico, and SparkFun RedBoard Artemis Nano.TinyML Cookbook, Second Edition, will show you how to build unique end-to-end ML applications using temperature, humidity, vision, audio, and accelerometer sensors in different scenarios. These projects will equip you with the knowledge and skills to bring intelligence to microcontrollers. You'll train custom models from weather prediction to real-time speech recognition using TensorFlow and Edge Impulse.Expert tips will help you squeeze ML models into tight memory budgets and accelerate performance using CMSIS-DSP.This improved edition includes new recipes featuring an LSTM neural network to recognize music genres and the Faster-Objects-More-Objects (FOMO) algorithm for detecting objects in a scene. Furthermore, you’ll work on scikit-learn model deployment on microcontrollers, implement on-device training, and deploy a model using microTVM, including on a microNPU. This beginner-friendly and comprehensive book will help you stay up to date with the latest developments in the tinyML community and give you the knowledge to build unique projects with microcontrollers!
TinyML. Wykorzystanie TensorFlow Lite do uczenia maszynowego na Arduino i innych mikrokontrolerach
Pete Warden, Daniel Situnayake
Może się wydawać, że profesjonalne systemy uczenia maszynowego wymagają sporych zasobów mocy obliczeniowej i energii. Okazuje się, że niekoniecznie: można tworzyć zaawansowane, oparte na sieciach neuronowych aplikacje, które doskonale poradzą sobie bez potężnych procesorów. Owszem, praca na mikrokontrolerach podobnych do Arduino lub systemach wbudowanych wymaga pewnego przygotowania i odpowiedniego podejścia, jest to jednak fascynujący sposób na wykorzystanie niewielkich urządzeń o niskim zapotrzebowaniu na energię do tworzenia zdumiewających projektów. Ta książka jest przystępnym wprowadzeniem do skomplikowanego świata, w którym za pomocą techniki TinyML wdraża się głębokie uczenie maszynowe w systemach wbudowanych. Nie musisz mieć żadnego doświadczenia z zakresu uczenia maszynowego czy pracy z mikrokontrolerami. W książce wyjaśniono, jak można trenować modele na tyle małe, by mogły działać w każdym środowisku - również Arduino. Dokładnie opisano sposoby użycia techniki TinyML w tworzeniu systemów wbudowanych opartych na zastosowaniu ucze nia maszynowego. Zaprezentowano też kilka ciekawych projektów, na przykład dotyczący budowy urządzenia rozpoznającego mowę, magicznej różdżki reagującej na gesty, a także rozszerzenia możliwości kamery o wykrywanie ludzi. W książce między innymi: praca z Arduino i innymi mikrokontrolerami o niskim poborze mocy podstawy uczenia maszynowego, budowy i treningu modeli TensorFlow Lite i zestaw narzędzi Google dla TinyML bezpieczeństwo i ochrona prywatności w aplikacji optymalizacja modelu tworzenie modeli do interpretacji różnego rodzaju danych Ograniczone zasoby? Poznaj TinyML!
Mark J. Price
Unlock the full potential of .NET development with Tools and Skills for .NET 8.Dive into source code management using Git and learn how to navigate projects while ensuring version control. Discover advanced debugging techniques and troubleshooting strategies to identify and resolve issues, and gain practical insights on documenting your code, APIs, and services, fostering project clarity and maintainability. Delve into the world of cryptography, ensuring confidentiality and integrity throughout your development lifecycle.Elevate your skills as you explore cutting-edge topics such as building intelligent apps using custom LLM-based chat services, mastering dependency injection, optimizing performance through testing, and Docker containerization. Harness the power of cloud-native development with .NET Aspire, unlocking the benefits of modern cloud platforms. With guidance on software architecture best practices, this book empowers you to build robust, scalable and maintainable applications.Advance your career with invaluable insights on job readiness and interview preparation, positioning yourself as a top-tier candidate in today's competitive job market.Whether you're a seasoned .NET professional or an aspiring developer looking to enhance your skills, this book is your ultimate companion on the journey to .NET mastery.
TRANSFORMACJA AGILE. Struktury, procesy i sposoby myślenia w erze cyfrowej
Neil Perkin
Zwinność nie dzieje się w izolacji. Podobnie jak zdolność uczenia się, wymaga przestrzeni do współdziałania, testowania, wyciągania wniosków. Ich rozwojowi sprzyjają środowiska, w których doświadczenia jednostek stają się kapitałem całej wspólnoty, a różnorodne perspektywy owocują lepszymi decyzjami. Współpraca i dzielenie się wiedzą warunkują dogłębniejsze rozumienie otoczenia, trafniejsze decyzje i odwagę do zmian, które napędzają rozwój. Zwinność w ITCORNER to nieustanny ruch ku większej świadomości, większemu wpływowi i wspólnie tworzonej przyszłości. Zaczerpnięte z książki Neila Perkina wskazówki mogą być cennym narzędziem na drodze budowania świadomych i dojrzałych w zwinności organizacji. Karolina Charewicz-Jakubowska, CEO ITCORNER Mistrzowska książka o transformacji cyfrowej, zawierająca wiele praktycznych wskazówek i cennych informacji. Pozycja obowiązkowa dla każdej organizacji, która chce stworzyć swoją wymarzoną przyszłość! Gerd Leonhard, dyrektor generalny The Futures Agency, autor książki Technology vs. Humanity Książka Neila Perkina porusza fundamentalne wyzwanie związane z przywództwem jak przejść od konieczności przeprowadzenia zmian do przekonania o tym, jak powinny wyglądać poszczególne etapy planu transformacji. Pozycja obowiązkowa. Bruce Daisley, autor książek Fortitude i The Joy of Work Inspirujący i praktyczny przewodnik po tym, dlaczego, co i jak należy zmienić w biznesie, aby sprostać wyzwaniom i wykorzystać możliwości związane z rewolucją cyfrową. Judy Gibbon, prezes Wonderbly Jak liderzy biznesu i specjaliści do spraw rozwoju mogą przygotować swoje firmy na sukces w erze cyfrowej? Wykorzystaj zwinną transformację, by zwiększyć efektywność działania Twojej organizacji! Agile Transformation obejmuje wszystkie kluczowe aspekty transformacji biznesowej od wyjaśnienia, dlaczego firmy potrzebują nowych systemów operacyjnych, przez skalowanie metod Agile, aż po rolę liderów zmiany, którzy powinni myśleć szeroko, ale działać na zasadzie małych kroków. Autor pokazuje, jak budować zaangażowane zespoły charakteryzujące się wysoką efektywnością, jak sobie radzić z nastawieniem pracowników utrudniającym wdrażanie zwinności, a także dlaczego dobre planowanie jest nadal niezbędne nawet w zwinnych organizacjach. Książka zawiera studia przypadku takich firm jak Amazon, Netflix czy Vodafone i stanowi lekturę obowiązkową dla każdej organizacji, która chce skutecznie konkurować w nowym, cyfrowym świecie. Tempo zmian nigdy nie było tak szybkie, a zarazem już nigdy nie będzie tak wolne. Zwinność, o której pisze Neil Perkin, to nie tylko zestaw narzędzi czy praktyk, ale przede wszystkim zmiana sposobu myślenia i działania. To droga do zrozumienia, że w dzisiejszym, nieustannie transformującym się świecie zdolność do szybkiego reagowania na potrzeby klientów i elastycznego dostosowywania się do nowych warunków decyduje o sukcesie każdego biznesu. To inwestycja w przyszłość poprzez budowanie organizacji, która jest gotowa na każde wyzwanie i potrafi tworzyć wartość w dynamicznie zmieniającym się środowisku. Pierwsze polskie wydanie książki zawiera siedem zupełnie nowych studiów przypadku, przedstawiających zagadnienia zwinności w lokalnym, polskim kontekście. Zapraszamy do lektury zobacz, jak polskie organizacje adaptują podejście Agile do swoich potrzeb i odnoszą spektakularne sukcesy! Przemysław Skrzek, partner zarządzający LEANSPIN / COMBAT READY