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Packt Enterprise will continue to develop the focussed, hands-on books that readers know Packt for. The brand aims to provide the real world knowledge and wisdom that IT professionals with from-the-trenches experience can offer.

Through Packt Enterprise, Packt can move more deeply into the world of Enterprise software. Specialisation allows a greater focus on, and better understanding of, Enterprise technologies and the people who work with them.

Packt Enterprise books can be summed up through the tagline "Professional Expertise Distilled". They take in-the-trenches knowledge from experienced software professionals, and distil it into a single, easy to follow manuscript.

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An Introduction to Risk Analysis

by Aaron Woody | June 2013 | Architecture & Analysis Enterprise Articles

Security is a process that requires the integration of security into business processes to ensure enterprise risk is minimized to an acceptable level. Security as a process is an approach that highlights the integration of security and business initiatives to reduce the security impact of implementations and changes to the enterprise environment. This article by Aaron Woody, author of Enterprise Security: A Data-Centric Approach to Securing the Enterprise, will introduce the concept of using risk analysis to drive security decisions.

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IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced

by | June 2013 | Enterprise Articles IBM

The article, IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced, covers the new tool, Cognos Workspace Advanced. This article by Dustin Adkison, author of IBM Cognos Business Intelligence, will guide you to learn how Cognos Workspace Advanced allows basic developers to create high-quality reports and analyse in one interface. You will also learn about its direct interaction with Cognos Workspace for a seamless, single interface. This article covers in detail how to create new reports and analyses using Cognos Workspace Advanced.

Cognos Workspace Advanced is changing the game for business-level users in IBM Cognos BI. The product is designed to allow querying and analysis from a single interface. It interacts with and enhances Cognos Workspace and is part of the shared workspace concept within IBM Cognos Business Intelligence v10.x.

In this article by Dustin Adkison, author of IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced, we will look at:

  • Who should use Cognos Workspace Advanced?

  • Comparing Cognos Workspace Advanced to Cognos Query Studio and Cognos Analysis Studio.

  • Accessing Cognos Workspace Advanced.

  • Exploring the drag-and-drop interface and the right-click menu

  • Using external data.

  • The business case for Cognos Workspace Advanced.

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Working with Windows Phone Controls

by Lohith G.N. | June 2013 | Enterprise Articles Microsoft

Silverlight runtime for Windows Phone provides a variety of controls as part of the framework itself. This article by Lohith G.N., author of Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F#, is all about getting to know the controls supported by the framework and understanding how to work with those controls. We will go through each control, understand its usage, and finally learn how to write code to work with those controls.

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Innovation of Communication and Information Technologies

by Daniel Jonathan Valik | June 2013 | Enterprise Articles Microsoft

In this article by Daniel Jonathan Valik, author of Microsoft Lync 2013 Unified Communications: From Telephony to Real Time Communication in the Digital Age we delve deep into the technologies, software solutions, and innovative communication capabilities. But before that let me first ask you several questions:

  • Have you ever considered how important communication is in your daily life?

  • How much do you communicate every day, or how many people do you converse with daily on various issues?

  • Is this exchange of information important and necessary?

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Release Planning – Tuning Product Development

by Stacia Viscardi | May 2013 | Enterprise Articles

This article by Stacia Viscardi, author of The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook, will help you help your product owner prepare the product backlog for various planning uses, while we focus on release planning specifically at this point. This article provides you with preparation and facilitation tips to have you up and running a release planning session in no time.

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Introduction to Citrix XenDesktop

by Gaspare A. Silvestri | May 2013 | Cookbooks Enterprise Articles

Citrix XenDesktop offers itself as a secure and performant architecture. This does not mean that it's not possible to increase and develop both the levels; Citrix platforms or different vendor systems permit you to have a deeper protection and avoid performance issues by enabling the right policies.

In this article by Gaspare A. Silvestri, the author of Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 Cookbook, we will discuss the configuration of the XenDesktop infrastructural policies.

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Developing a Web Project for JasperReports

by Deepak Vohra | May 2013 | Enterprise Articles Java

Eclipse IDE for Java EE provides project facets for various types of projects. In this article, we discuss a more generic project facet for web applications called the Dynamic Web Module project facet that adds support for Java Servlet API to build web applications. To demonstrate the use of the Dynamic Web Project we shall be using JasperReports as an example. Preparing presentation-quality reports is a routine occurrence, and several tools & APIs for creating reports are available. For Java developers, one of the most commonly used API is JasperSoft’s open source JasperReports, which is capable of producing a range of outputs, including HTML, PDF, presentations from either static data or data retrieved form a database table using an SQL query, and is designed to be integrated directly into Java/J2EE applications.

In this article by Deepak Vohra author of Java EE Development with Eclipse, we sets out to demonstrate the essentials of how JasperReports can be used in a web application created with Eclipse. The examples created in this article are a PDF report and an Excel report. The article has the following sections.

  • Setting the environment

  • Creating a Dynamic Web project in Eclipse

  • Creating the configuration file

  • Creating a web application

    • Creating a Report Design

    • Setting Report Title

    • Creating a JDBC Connection

    • Generating a PDF Report

    • Creating an Excel Report

  • Packaging and deploying the web application

  • Running the web application

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Techniques for Creating a Multimedia Database

by Marcelle Kratochvil | May 2013 | Enterprise Articles Oracle

This article by Marcelle Kratochvil author of Managing Multimedia and Unstructured Data in the Oracle Database, covers the technical aspects of setting up a database to use Oracle Multimedia. It contains tips, codes, and useful techniques for setting up and managing an Oracle Database and covers the core storage capabilities of the Oracle Database. The goal is to enable the database administrator to make correctly informed decisions about the physical structure of database storage objects, in particular tablespaces, datafiles, and database capabilities.

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Working with Home Page Components and Custom Links

by Paul Goodey | May 2013 | Cookbooks CRM Enterprise Articles

In this article by Paul Goodey, author of Getting Started with Oracle Event Processing 11g, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Creating a Personal Setup link using the standard Custom Links on the sidebar

  • Using Custom Links to open Training in a new window from the sidebar

  • Creating a news-ticker message on the home page

  • Automatically collapsing Chatter feeds on the home page

  • Removing Chatter feeds on the home page

  • Adding a Send An Email button on the home page

  • Showing Opportunity Sales Stage descriptions on the home page

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Integration with System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1

by Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso | May 2013 | Cookbooks Enterprise Articles Microsoft Oracle

In this article created by Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso, author of Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook, we will cover the following topics:

  • Installing System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1

  • Installing management packs

  • Managing Discovery and Agents

  • Configuring the integration between Operations Manager 2012 and VMM 2012

  • Enabling reporting in VMM

  • Monitoring VMware vSphere infrastructure from the Operations Manager using management packs

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