economics-software

compilicated, ugly, and totaly outdated !

This book is really a very good introduction for starting to learn about programming, it does not follow any programming language, just to give prototype examples. I really see it wonderful as an instructor

Flowcharting is a dying art in this era of "visual" languages. Laura Saret breathes new life into flowcharting by presenting a clear, methodical approach to the programming logic process.
This book is overflowing with examples, and meticulously explains each step of each process presented. Saret is strong on structure, and the consistency with which the topic is presented makes each chapter an obviously integral part of the whole.

This book is an excellent foundation for students who are preparing to program in many languages--from COBOL to Assembler and much more!

This book introduces a novice to SAP Project System. Written in simple and precise language, this book have several examples and screenshots which makes it interesting.

A small modification in the organization of the book would make the flow of thought easy for a new reader. (rather a reader can read the book in the following manner)

5 - Implementation strategy

1 - Basics

2 - Project System in SAP

4 - Customizing

3 - Practical Example

6 - Summary

Overall, the book given a good introduction to Project System in SAP.

S.R. Srinath
Certified SAP Consultant,
Dubai, UAE

This book is useful to understand SAP PS.It will take you from general project management to SAP Project mangement in a logical manner.The version used in this book is old.If transaction codes are given this book will be more useful.

This step by step detailed project management book by draeger really forcemultipied our understanding of Time schduling of Projects in SAP R/3. The book shows appropriate screen shots at relevant points to have a better understanding of the funcntionality.

I would have given this a 5 star but because of not covering external processing and general cost on the activities. Besides, the SAP version covered in the book is a little bit old 3.0F

Los de SAP se han quedado con nostros y nos han sacado la pasta una vez más. Son unos peaso mamones del quince y medio

This guidebook is very good if you want to get an overview, but the greatest value is the guide's how to make the reports. I have used it to make drill down reports in CO-PA utilising most of the R/3 reporting features. The part on ABAP query is also very useful.

The Simplification Group has done a terrific job of explaining how to use various SAP reporting tools by documenting the creation of actual reports with screen shots and easy-to-understand instructions. While other books tend to focus on only one tool, they've included directions for ABAP Query, Report Painter/Report Writer, Drilldown Reporting and LIS Reporting. They even give you the tools you need to decide which reporting tool is appropriate for the information you're trying to get out of the system.

I believe this guidebook is an absolute "must-have" for anybody who is using SAP. It gives a comprehensive outline for your overall reporting strategy, then provides more than enough direction to get you beyond the starting gate with each tool. If you don't feel like developing ad hoc reports by yourself, Book 3 helps you to find many of the SAP-delivered reports that already exist, and shows you how to tailor your query to get only the information you need. I highly recommend this book!

This book is a nice short piece on the nuts and bolts of selling, but be forewarned: it has about as much to do with Microsoft and its methods as I do (hey, I'm running Office 2000 on my computer, woohoo!).

You get the occassional gem about taking Bill Gates along on a sales call. That's what you call a closer. But that's about it. Other than that, Dayton could be describing how to sell cardboard. Not that it's a bad thing. But if you're looking for strategic selling techniques for high technology sales, best look elsewhere.

As opposed to most "hot new" sales approaches which focus on changing your personal style, this book does a great job of providing a strategic step-by-step plan from A-Z. It's void of fluff and gets right to the point of outlining the nuts and bolts of the process including pre-sales planning, performance tracking, maintaining growth, and time management. It's worth reading in general and especially for those migrating into tech sales.

This book is one of the best books on selling high technology products on the market. It provides invaluable knowledge on a full range of selling topics including effective time management, marketing, sales support, sales people, sales managers, and customer support. The section on time management was very helpful. When I first started reading it I was wondering why the author took the time to insert a chapter on time management when there are so many books devoted to the subject. Before I realized it I was saying to my self, "... this is happening to me every day I must take control of my schedule." The Client Centered approach to sales is the central focus of the book and is described in detail. Some of the methods presented in the Client Centered approach have been presented in other books, but the author did an excellent job of bringing together the various ideas into a well-defined plan. The forms and checklists included are a valuable addition, and help in transforming the ideas presented into a plan of action. I was so impressed with the book that I am purchasing copies for all my sales and marketing people.

This book has been hyped up as being the definitive text for Microsoft CRM. In reality it delivers very little. While offering more than the dummies guide to CRM any user can gain more insight into the application using the docs supplied with CRM such as the implementation guide and also just by using the application

Still waiting for an intermediate to advanced text on Microsoft CRM

Special Edition - Using Microsoft CRM covers Microsoft CRM from basic functionality through the most complex concepts including workflow, configuration, customization and the Great Plains integration. The book also has a lot of good content on general customer relationship management concepts. The customization chapter includes real examples of using the CRM SDK to customize Microsoft CRM and the book's CD includes accompanying code samples. This book is required reading for anyone implementing Microsoft CRM.

Special Edition Using Microsoft CRM by Microsoft expert Laura Brown is an invaluable introduction ideal for with shows sales, service, and business development specialists with respect to just how to manage small businesses with the sophisticated technology that, until now, has been largely reserved for large corporations with copiously funded resources. Based on Laura Brown's real-world experience building CRM systems, Special Edition Using Microsoft CRM provides all of the expert advice that any MS CRM user would need.

This book is not worth your money or time. It is very confusing to understand what the author is trying to teach you about quickbooks. I found myself jumping around from various chapters searching for additional clues that the author sometimes mentions briefly. I had better luck playing with the software than using this book.

After struggling with the manual supplied by Intuit I was overjoyed to find the answers to my questions in this Special Edition of Using Quickbooks. It contains a wealth of information and tips from one who obviously has used Quickbooks extensively.Worth twice the price.

I bought this book for my company bookkeeper who had very little experience
with computers or, for that matter, bookkeeping. The easy-to-understand
information in this book enabled her to quickly figure out how to set up our
company's records in QuickBooks and maintain them effortlessly. The
checklists for what to do on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual
basis are priceless, and now we know how to print out any kind of report we
need to tell us how the business is doing. The manual that came with the
program was confusing and just touched on the surface of complicated topics,
but this book took us everywhere we needed to go. We knew we had the right
book when our accountant came to visit, had a question about how to do
something with QuickBooks, and pulled this book out of his briefcase for the
answer!

This book nicely sets forth a detailed methodology for doing swimlane diagramming for workflow business processing. This book is for analysts; the discussion is about the nature of business processes that have workflow as a key characteristic. It is not about the architecture of computer solutions for such processes. If you follow the methodology in this book and flesh out the diagrams with use cases (just briefly touched on here), you will have captured most of the requirements for a business workflow process.

The book is nicely bound and well written. The authors have been around a while and the vocabulary and approach fit nicely with older concepts like business process reengineering. The authors are not unaware of the latest developments and "UML" crops up here and there but not in the index. The diagramming is very simple compared to UML activity diagrams.

This is good reading for the domain experts on a team working on the requirements document and a nice primer for geeks who are forced for the first time to talk to the business side of an enterprise.

If you've ever asked the question: Is there a great book that teaches an excellent methodology for analyzing real world workflow, and then designing the application that will implement that workflow into an application? I've found the book that answers that question.

Workflow Modeling is the book. It is the best book on the subject that I have read to date, and I've read dozens. It teaches you how to build visual models that illustrate the workflow process, and shows how to implement the model into an application. Superb! But it before it goes out of print.

Rarely do I get excited about books on workflow modeling. I have a few good books on the subject, all of which provide solid approaches and most of which are well written. This book stands out because it goes beyond merely "solid" or "well written" by giving one of the most comprehensive approaches to workflow modeling I've had the pleasure of reading.

First, like most books on the topic, none of the components of the approach are new. What makes the approach refreshing is the way the authors take standard techniques and tie them together into a coherent process. Second, this book can be used as a workbook during a workflow modeling project, and is well suited to this because of the numerous checklists and diagrams that will prove invaluable every step of the way. Finally, this is the first book of its kind that incorporates use cases, making it invaluable to project teams that have standardized on UML (Unified Modeling Language)or wish to integrate an object-oriented approach into a workflow modeling project. If you're not familiar with use cases I strongly recommend Writing Effective Use Cases by Alistar Cockburn (the best book on the subject in my opinion); UML Distilled by Fowler and Scott is an excellent introduction to that subject if it's new to you.

The approach is straightforward: frame the process and define its scope, understand the existing process (if there is one), design the "to-be" process and develop use case scenarios. I wish to offer one caveat at this point: if you are reengineering a process that is seriously broken you might consider skipping the "as-is" process. Understanding the existing process is useful if your goal is incremental improvement. Reengineering efforts usually radically transform existing processes, making efforts to understand them both moot and wasted.

Some of the highlights of this book include the authors' clear definitions and way of decomposing complex systems into discrete steps and components. For example, they use a five tier view of processes that ensures you have a complete view of all issues and factors. The views are: (1) mission, strategy and goals (I personally extend goals further into Goal-Question-Metric), (2)business processes, (3) presentation, (4) application logic and (5) data. Note that the last three align nicely to a 3-tier client/server architecture. This observation clearly shows how coherent the authors' approach is and how it can foster alignment of technology to business requirements.

I also like how the authors clarify the key issues in process design by pointing out six enablers that you need to account for during the analysis and design phase: (1)workflow, (2) technology, (3) human resources, (4) motivations and measurements, (5) policies and rules and (6) environmental constraints (facilities, external process capabilities, etc.). There is one minor point of disagreement I have between their workflow modeling technique and the one I use. The authors use swimlane diagrams (also called Rummler-Brache diagrams), while I use deployment diagrams. The difference? Swimlane diagrams do not capture phases or cycles. I always place workflows into the context of Entry Criteria-Task-Validation-Exit Criteria (ETVX), which is nearly identical to the TQM Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle. I insist on ETVX because it allows me to spot missing validation points in an existing workflow, and ensures that I clearly define entry and exit criteria, as well as validation points in a "to-be" workflow. Of course I am stating personal preferences - following the authors' approach verbatim will definitely result in a workflow design that is not only "bulletproof", but will align information systems and business process almost perfectly.

This book is a gem. It's readable, full of ideas and, with the incorporation of use cases into the approach, completely up-to-date with respect to IS/IT methodologies. If you want a fresh, modern approach to workflow design this book is the only one that will provide it.

This book is mostly a waste of money unless you are taking a class requiring this as a textbook. Why? Because it is written like a textbook! Every chapter ends with pages of great questions that remain unanswered because the only place to get the answer is a special order instructor's version. I am not taking a class. I foolishly expected it to be a complete teaching tool and business reference. There isn't even a disc included --a requirement for a book this expensive.

For an understanding of Excel's data analysis features, skip this book. Instead, check out "Data Analysis With Microsoft Excel" a much better book with a great disc and a fantastic macro included. Some of the information in this book is useful but for the money look for a more comprehensive book.

I thought that statistics would be very hard for me because of all the things students have been saying for this class. I was so scared of taking it and failing, but after looking through the book and reading it when i didn't get something, it really helped me a lot. So far I have passed all my tests and it was all because of the book being good enough for me to understand.

I was actually hoping to find a useful book that would help me implement PDM software, or at least provide guidelines and recommendations. After reading this book, I feel like I could have written it (even though I know next to nothing about the subject).
It is so general, the subject is painted with very broad soft strokes. What about costs, implementation schedules, performance, real-world implementations, difficult release paths, conflicting requirements???
Do *not* spend the money on this book. Seriously, you will be dissapointed. It is hardly worth a fraction of the cost (pick it up used, if you must).

'The Digital Document' was first loaned to me by a friend, but as soon as I began reading it I had to own it. It is an invaluable reference tool not only for people engaged in the construction and design industries, but any document-intensive work environment, IT professionals and document authors included. I find myself constantly going back to this book for ammunition in the ongoing effort to streamline workplace processes and convert others to a more efficient way of doing business.

And not only that; 'The Digital Document' helped me to first form a comprehensive understanding of the most intrinsic new issues underlying the electronic revolution in the modern workplace. Equipped with this new understanding and the wealth of information provided by this book I cannot help but feel as if I have gained a unique advantage when I see it's premises validated on a day-to-day basis. If you don't own 'The Digital Document', chances are you're missing out.

This is not the best book on the subject. There are many other superior books to this one. I still keep it around as a descent reference on statistics, and occasionally get something out of it.

It's a very good book because of the way it divulges you into the real world. If you are interested in learning business and business statistics, what better place to learn it than the real world.

I had the privelege of taking an MBA level course from Andy Siegel. The style of the text reflects the simply, user-friendly way he communicates in class. Not having taken a stats class before, I was happy to find a professor who could take a dry, complex subject and make it interesting and relatively painless. More professors should use this text!