Aimed at Business Studies students who require guidance in the area of statistics, this book minimizes technical language and provides definitions of key terms, and gives emphasis to interpretation rather than technique. It includes guidance on using Excel and Minitab to produce the analysis described and explained in the chapter.

Drive More Business Value from IT! and Bridge the Gap Between IT and Business Leadership *Apply business practices throughout IT to optimize budgets and improve ROI*Create higher satisfaction and more realistic expectations for IT throughout the business*Written by two leading IBM experts on bringing business discipline to IT IT organizations have achieved outstanding technological maturity, but

A guide to records management methodologies for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. It helps you learn the five core services of any records management system - confidentiality, information integrity, high availability, adherence to policy, and audit ability as well as explore the tools and techniques needed to implement them in SharePoint.

Full title: 'Quantitative Methods for Business, Management and Finance'. Second edition.

Helps the managers to conduct effective oversight of enterprise architecture activities. Beginning with a look at the theory and frameworks, this book discusses the practical application of enterprise architecture and best practices. It contains the SIM's survey of IT organizations' enterprise architecture activities.

Business Statistics Using Excel is packed full of examples and integrated Excel screenshots, guiding students step-by-step through the theory and methods behind the use of statistics in the real world. Student exercises running throughout each chapter serve to engage students and encourage self-directed learning and testing.

Claudio Ciborra was one of the most innovative thinkers in the field of information systems. This book explains the intellectual contribution of Ciborra's work in a substantial introductory chapter, contains the most significant of his articles, and provides a sample of research that draws from his ideas.

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Do you need to brush up on your mathematical skills to truly excel in your economics or business course? If you want to increase your confidence in mathematics, then this is the perfect book for you. With its friendly and informal style, this market leading text breaks down topics into short sections making each new technique you learn seem less daunting. Offering you the chance at every ...

Information technology lives all around us - in how we communicate, how we do business, how we shop, and how we learn. Smart phones, iPods, PDAs, and wireless devices dominate our lives, and yet it's all too easy for students to take information technology for granted. This edition covers core IT topics.

Tells executives and managers how to turn under performing digital assets into powerhouse systems: how to specify small changes that can dramatically boost productivity, how to reduce training costs, and what questions to ask vendors.

Combines the principles of business process management with strategic IT planning; the result being a groundbreaking work on strategic IT and process planning. This title focuses on the real world of organizations and offers extensive treatment to the politics of strategic planning.

In every aspect of our lives we are suffering from information overload. But organisations and the individuals within them can develop strategies in order to manage information. This book explains these strategies, and takes a problem-solving approach, contextualising theory within examples from a range of organisations.

Connects enterprise strategy and data center investment, design and management. This book demonstrates how to leverage technology to manage the seemingly infinite amount of data. It includes chapters that offer management and technology solutions to effectively manage data through data centers.

Explains how to design, deploy, and use event-processing (EP) systems to detect and respond to business anomalies, threats, and opportunities. This book discusses the types of software needed to develop and run EP applications, helping you form a deployment plan and purchase the appropriate tools.

Reviews arithmetic skills as they apply to business records and functions. This title covers such topics as fractions, decimals, calculating percentages, the fundamentals of statistics and business graphics, measurements in the English and metric systems, and applications of mathematics to banking, investing, loans, and operating a business.

Enterprise application integration (EAI) is the IT challenge of making disparate business applications work together. This introduction explores EAI's pros and cons, and covers key terms and technologies, including distributed objects, object transaction monitors, CORBA, COM/DCOM, and the Web.

This volume explores the area of the integrity objective within IT security. It also examines the relationship between integrity in information systems and the overall internal control systems that are established in organizations to support the corporate governance codes.

Achieve Breakthrough Business Flexibility and Agility by Integrating SOA and BPM Thousands of enterprises have adopted Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based on its promise to help them respond more rapidly to changing business requirements by composing new solutions from existing business services. To deliver on this promise, however, companies need to integrate solid but flexible Business ...