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IT Governance Publishing, Claire Agutter
This book offers a detailed exploration of Service Integration and Management (SIAM™), providing insights into its frameworks, structures, and practical applications. It starts by covering the core principles of SIAM™, from its historical context to its role in optimizing service integration across multiple providers. The book then dives into the SIAM roadmap, outlining key stages such as discovery, strategy, planning, and execution, all essential for successful service management.Readers will gain an understanding of different SIAM structures, including externally sourced, internally sourced, and hybrid models, along with their respective advantages and challenges. It also explores how SIAM aligns with other service management practices like ITIL, COBIT, Lean, and Agile, offering a comprehensive approach to managing complex service ecosystems.The book places special emphasis on the roles and responsibilities within a SIAM ecosystem, including those of service providers, integrators, and customers. It also highlights the importance of cultural change, collaboration, and governance for effective SIAM implementation.Finally, readers will learn to identify and address common challenges and risks, equipping them with strategies to overcome obstacles and ensure smooth integration within their organization.
IT Governance Publishing, Claire Agutter
This book outlines a structured progression for implementing Service Integration and Management (SIAM) within complex, multi-vendor environments. It begins by defining SIAM principles, roles, layers, and structural models to establish a shared understanding of its purpose and scope.The roadmap then unfolds in four key stages. The Discovery & Strategy phase focuses on analyzing the current state, setting strategic drivers, and establishing governance foundations. In Plan & Build, the book guides readers through designing the SIAM model, sourcing structures, contracts, and process frameworks. The Implement stage addresses onboarding, transition planning, and applying change management across stakeholder groups. Finally, Run & Improve centers on operating the governance model, managing performance, conducting audits, and enabling continuous service development.Each chapter links practical methods with decision-making considerations, offering a reference for teams planning, launching, or refining a SIAM approach. The content is organized to support structured adoption while allowing flexibility for varied organizational contexts.
Maxime Barbier
This book is for developers who have knowledge of the basics of the SFML library and its capabilities in 2D game development. Minimal experience with C++ is required.
Sammie Crowder
Blender is the most important up-and-coming 3D software package in the world. EEVEE, a state-of-the-art real-time rendering engine is a fairly new addition to Blender and provides the capacity to create artwork at blazing speed, almost 12 times faster than Cycles.Lighting, Shading, and Rendering with Blender’s EEVEE provides a high-level overview of what EEVEE is capable of, then teaches users about Geometry Nodes, Rendering Techniques, using shortcuts like Kitbashing and Alphas to speed up scene creation, volumetrics, reflections, adding lights, cameras and even special effects like fire and smoke, all in EEVEE. All of this is in the context of creating actual scenes that readers will work through from start to finish. By the time a Blender Artist completes the book, they will have created three separate works that have challenged them to iterate and design with the full power of Blender’s EEVEE.
Thomas Bleicher
Beginning with a quick start tutorial which will get you up and running with SketchUp 2014 quickly, you will move on to learning the key skills you will need to wow your clients with stunning visualizations through a series practical steps, tips and tricks. If you are a SketchUp user, from an amateur right through to an architectural technician, professional architect, or designer, this is the book for you. This book is also suitable as a companion to any architectural design or multimedia course, and is accessible to anyone who has learned the basics of SketchUp.
Snowflake Cookbook. Techniques for building modern cloud data warehousing solutions
Hamid Mahmood Qureshi, Hammad Sharif
Snowflake is a unique cloud-based data warehousing platform built from scratch to perform data management on the cloud. This book introduces you to Snowflake's unique architecture, which places it at the forefront of cloud data warehouses.You'll explore the compute model available with Snowflake, and find out how Snowflake allows extensive scaling through the virtual warehouses. You will then learn how to configure a virtual warehouse for optimizing cost and performance. Moving on, you'll get to grips with the data ecosystem and discover how Snowflake integrates with other technologies for staging and loading data.As you progress through the chapters, you will leverage Snowflake's capabilities to process a series of SQL statements using tasks to build data pipelines and find out how you can create modern data solutions and pipelines designed to provide high performance and scalability. You will also get to grips with creating role hierarchies, adding custom roles, and setting default roles for users before covering advanced topics such as data sharing, cloning, and performance optimization.By the end of this Snowflake book, you will be well-versed in Snowflake's architecture for building modern analytical solutions and understand best practices for solving commonly faced problems using practical recipes.
Source SDK Game Development Essentials. Develop engaging and immersive mods with Source SDK
Brett Joseph Bernier
This book is written by a gamer, for a gamer to guide just about anything with Source SDK giving a firm grasp of all the tools it has to offer using step-by-step explanations. If you’re a keen gamer who wants a bit more out of your favorite game and create your own modifications (mods) and levels with the Source engine, this book is great for you. No programming and Source SDK experience is required.
Johannes Stein
An easy-to-follow guide full of descriptive step-by-step procedures on how to develop a game for iOS. With each topic, a new challenge will be tackled to get a deeper knowledge of the Sparrow game framework and gain the skills to develop a complete mobile experience.This book is aimed at those who have always wanted to create their own games for iOS devices. Perhaps you've already dabbled in game development and want to know how to develop games for the Apple App Store, or maybe you have developed Objective-C apps in the past but you are new to game development. In either case, this book will help with descriptive examples and teach you to develop a game throughout its course. Some experience in Objective-C and a basic understanding of object-oriented programming are required.