Informatyka
Yoav Yohav
If you are a business analyst, BI developer, or an IT professional who wants to learn the A to Z of how to work with Web Intelligence reporting tools and different types of data, then this book is for you. The only thing you need is a basic understanding of what Business Intelligence is and data concepts.
Chandrasekhar Mankala (USD), Ganesh Mahadevan (USD)
SAP HANA is a real-time applications platform that provides a multi-purpose, in-memory appliance. Decision makers in the organization can gain instant insight into business operations. Thus all the data available can be analysed and you can react to the changing business conditions rapidly to make decisions. The real-time platform not only empowers business users and top management to make decisions but also provides the capability to make decisions in real-time.A practical and comprehensive guide that helps you understand the power of SAP HANA’s real-time and in-memory capabilities. It also provides step-by-step instructions to exploit all the possible features of the SAP HANA database, enabling users to harness the full potential of this technology and its features.You will gain an understanding of real-time replications, effective data loading from various sources, how to load data, and how to create re-usable objects such as models and reports.Use this practical guide to enable or transform your business landscape by implementing SAP HANA to meet your business requirements. The book shows you how to load data from different types of systems, create models in SAP HANA, and consume data for decision-making. The book covers various tools at different stages creating models using SAP HANA Studio, and consuming data using reporting tools such as SAP BusinessObjects, SAP Lumira, and so on . This book also explains the in-depth architecture of SAP HANA to help you understand SAP HANA as an appliance, that is, a combination of hardware and software.The book covers the best practices to leverage SAP HANA’s in-memory technology to transform data into insightful information. It also covers technology landscaping, solution architecture, connectivity, data loading, and setting up the environment for modeling purpose (including setup of SAP HANA Studio).If you have an intention to start your career as SAP HANA Modeler, this book is the perfect start.
Dmitry Anoshin
SAP Lumira allows you to combine data from multiple sources into a single view and create engaging visualizations quickly and easily. It is a reporting platform that helps users access data and independently perform analysis. With the increasing interest in data discovery, self-service BI, and visualization around the world, tools like SAP Lumira help to eliminate the complexities of analyzing and discovering data.Learn data discovery techniques, build amazing visualizations, create fantastic stories, and share your visualizations through an electronic medium with one of the most powerful tools around—SAP Lumira.You will begin with an overview of the SAP Lumira family of products. You will then go through various data discovery techniques using real-world scenarios of an online e-commerce retailer through detailed recipes on the installation, administration, and customization of SAP Lumira. Next, you will work with data, starting from acquiring data from various data sources, then preparing and visualizing it using the rich functionality of SAP Lumira. Finally, you will present data via a data story or infographic and publish it across your organization or on the World Wide Web.
SAP NetWeaver MDM 7.1 Administrator's Guide
Uday Rao
This book is written in an easy-to-read style, with a strong emphasis on real-world, practical examples with step-by-step explanations. This book will appeal to administrators who are responsible for implementing and managing SAP NetWeaver MDM in their systems. Basic knowledge of MDM is desirable, but not knowledge of SAP NetWeaver MDM. If you are already familiar with NetWeaver it will be easy for you to follow the book.
Michael Missbach, George Anderson
System SAP jest uznanym zintegrowanym systemem informatycznym do zarządzania firmą. Charakteryzuje się ogromnym bogactwem funkcjonalności i elastycznością, ułatwiającą zmianę skali lub profilu działalności przedsiębiorstwa. Użytkownikami SAP są firmy o różnej wielkości i o różnych modelach biznesu. Szczególnie cenną możliwością SAP jest optymalizacja komunikacji i współpracy z otoczeniem: SAP CRM ułatwia zarządzanie relacjami z klientami, SAP SCM — zarządzanie łańcuchem dostaw, a SAP SRM pomaga w zarządzaniu relacjami z dostawcami. Niniejsza książka pozwala w bardzo krótkim czasie zapoznać się z systemami SAP. Składa się z 24 rozdziałów-lekcji. Przyswojenie materiału każdej z tych lekcji nie powinno trwać dłużej niż godzinę. Ten niezwykle praktyczny przewodnik umożliwia solidne opanowanie podstaw, a następnie zapoznanie się z bardziej zaawansowanymi zagadnieniami. Dzięki temu szybko można zrozumieć, na czym polega planowanie, wdrażanie systemu SAP i korzystanie z niego. Aby umożliwić utrwalenie materiału, każdy rozdział zakończono praktycznym studium przypadku. W książce omówiono: podstawy SAP oraz opis aplikacji i komponentów systemu, instalację systemu SAP w wersji stacjonarnej i w wersji systemu w chmurze, SAP z punktu widzenia biznesu i z punktu widzenia informatyki, najnowsze rozwiązania: bazy HANA, nowy interfejs użytkownika, Software as a Service i inne, operacje biznesowe w SAP, praktyczne podejście do implementacji, migracji i aktualizacji systemu SAP, SAP a internet rzeczy, media społecznościowe, wielkie zbiory danych i inne zagadnienia najbliższej przyszłości. SAP — zostań ekspertem w 24 godziny! Dr Michael Missbach jest dyrektorem Cisco SAP Competence Center. Opracowuje zbiór dobrych praktyk związanych z korzystaniem z aplikacji SAP HANA i innych ważnych usług biznesowych implementowanych w chmurach publicznych i prywatnych. Dr George Anderson jest starszym architektem i dyrektorem programowym w Microsoft Services, specjalizuje się w projektowaniu i implementowaniu ważnych rozwiązań biznesowych SAP i Microsoft Dynamics.
Harish Gulati
SAS is a groundbreaking tool for advanced predictive and statistical analytics used by top banks and financial corporations to establish insights from their financial data.SAS for Finance offers you the opportunity to leverage the power of SAS analytics in redefining your data. Packed with real-world examples from leading financial institutions, the author discusses statistical models using time series data to resolve business issues.This book shows you how to exploit the capabilities of this high-powered package to create clean, accurate financial models. You can easily assess the pros and cons of models to suit your unique business needs.By the end of this book, you will be able to leverage the true power of SAS to design and develop accurate analytical models to gain deeper insights into your financial data.
Ben Frain
A step-by-step tutorial guide, taking you through how to build a responsive Sass and Compass powered website. If you understand HTML and CSS, this book is all you need to take your code to the next level with Sass and Compass. No prior understanding of CSS preprocessors or programming conventions is needed.
Sridhar Alla, Md. Rezaul Karim
Scala has been observing wide adoption over the past few years, especially in the field of data science and analytics. Spark, built on Scala, has gained a lot of recognition and is being used widely in productions. Thus, if you want to leverage the power of Scala and Spark to make sense of big data, this book is for you.The first part introduces you to Scala, helping you understand the object-oriented and functional programming concepts needed for Spark application development. It then moves on to Spark to cover the basic abstractions using RDD and DataFrame. This will help you develop scalable and fault-tolerant streaming applications by analyzing structured and unstructured data using SparkSQL, GraphX, and Spark structured streaming. Finally, the book moves on to some advanced topics, such as monitoring, configuration, debugging, testing, and deployment.You will also learn how to develop Spark applications using SparkR and PySpark APIs, interactive data analytics using Zeppelin, and in-memory data processing with Alluxio.By the end of this book, you will have a thorough understanding of Spark, and you will be able to perform full-stack data analytics with a feel that no amount of data is too big.