Business Systems Books

The book shows a strong vision of CRM projects under a management perspective.
Very helpful both for academics and practitioners.
Read it!

The book shows a strong vision of CRM projects under a management perspective.
Very helpful both for academics and practitioners.
Read it!

Those for whom the "acronym"ous world of telecommunications is foreign territory will find Karen Patten's book invaluable. As a novice in the study of telecommunications I found her definitions and explanations to be thorough yet clear and easily understood. This is a high achievement given the technical complexities of the industry and the ongoing confusion which has plagued the industry since its deregulation in 1996. Her chapter on the changes in the telecommunication industry should be required reading for every consumer who struggles to decipher the myriad charges which appear on their monthly telephone bill!

Organizations need to adopt networking technology in order to function properly, and Data Networking Made Easy goes beyond most books about LANS to cover connecting across public networks and using a variety of networking technologies. An excellent guide for any interested in learning all the options in a networking environment.

This book is required reading for "Understanding Electronic Commerce" taught at Northeastern University, Boston, MA.

This book is required reading for "Understanding Electronic Commerce" taught at Northeastern University, Boston, MA.

I used this book and even had a class from Gary Hansen. This book is well written and has been the foundation of my early career since I have been designing and building a corporate e-commerce site for the past several years. I can't count how many meetings I have been in where the concepts in this book have come into play. I'm even more baffled by those that are programmers that lack the skills and concepts taught in this book. The book has great examples and walks through explaining some potentionally confusing concepts in a manner that is understandable.

I'm now looking to buy a copy so that my co-workers can learn the database skills they really should have.

I was using some database products in an "informal" way
since 10 years ago. This book helped me to clarify several
concepts needed for a good foundation in database design.
The examples are very well designed, most involving "classical"
situations, but presented with several degrees of dificulty.
The style is a bit dense at first, but easily readable.

This recommentation is obvious, but not always followed: read
this kind of material before trying to learn from the database

"concepts" included in the specific product's guide.

In my opinion, this book is one of the most well-written introductions to database applications development currently available for classroom use. In addition to its clear and concise text, this book is comes with a comprehensive package of support materials, including a number of excellent examples of realistic database projects.

This book serves as a complete guideline for designing business applications. The best part is that it explains the basics of each and every step involved in application development. Every step is made complete by giving relevant examples, which makes it the ultimate reference for DBMS. I would recommend this book to everybody who is putting his/her foot in DB world. Students taking DBMS course should read this book, which would make their life a lot easier!!! It covers extensily the application development in Access which turns out to be much more helpful/explanatory than those Access books. I couldn't wait to finish reading the whole book.

This book is not only a wonderful read and an impressive history of business during the second half of the 20th century, but it presents the most logical understanding as to why corporations, industries - the entire economy - is having such a difficult time growing. The irony that Osenton points out is that we are victims of our own success - pushing for more and more consumption - and getting it! - only to begin to approach levels of saturation. He points out that there are currently more than 32 million more registered vehicles in the United States than there are licensed drivers! Talk about surplus. For the first time ever, someone has explained WHY - beyond the simple explanation of greed - that corporations are cooking their books in order to make the numbers. It's because their respective top lines are lifeless, and they have squeezed every penny, every productivity gain they could out of the corporation. Death of Demand helped me completely understand why employees are paying for earnings growth with their jobs - jobs that are either being cut altogether or sent overseas. What a spectacular analysis of our current economic condition. Bravo!

This is an incredible--and credible--fact based view of what's really going on in the economy. Mr. Osenton has clearly done his homework, and presents this fresh material in a very insightful and enjoyable read.
The best business book I have read since Peter's "In Search of Excellence" two deacdes ago.
Bravo!

This books is really an interesting and coherent vision of Decision Support System. Professors Gupta, Forgionne and Mora have been an outstanding job where summarize different approaches and theories about how managers, IT Professional and organizations in general using IT/IS as Intelligent Platform to enhance his own projections and develop new business options in Complex business World.

Jeimy J. Cano, Ph.D
Editor of "Critical Reflections on Information Systems. A systemic approach"

Excellent resource spanning both background material and the future of decision support systems. Great book for the practitioner and the theorist. - Gloria Phillips-Wren, Ph.D., Loyola College in Maryland, USA

This is one of six books in the Degunking series from Paraglyph Press. It is written from a different perspective than the usual tutorials. It brings together a wide range of processes such as file organization, registry editing, customizations, disk cleanup, disk defragmentation, and various tricks that power users have developed over the years. It also covers all the maintenance procedures needed to get your PC back to top performance. The book is organized according to the various cleaning processes needed to improve the performance of your computer. Worth keeping on your desktop!

After you use Microsoft Office for a while you start to find a number of little problems or annoyances. The first one is usually that you can't find the file you are seeking. You product something, you save it, and pretty soon your directory is full of files with strange names and you can't quite remember just what they are. That's the sort of thing that the authors of this book tell you how to fix.

Eventually most of us have to learn these little tasks, but here in one book, you get a concise and complete list and description of all these little things that you should do every so often. They really will make your system run better.

This book says that it's intended for Novice to Intermediate user. I don't think this is for complete novices, perhaps just one step up. The complete novice probably doesn't know what Office is all about.

With this book you should also get the Degunking buide to other software, especially the operating system as it also tends to attract clutter.

For my generation, it's a foregone conclusion capitalism is synonymous with greed and selfishness; it is a zero-sum game where only a fortunate (highly connected and privileged) few succeed. My peers, many of whom are highly educated, believe the democratic ideals we've learned to appreciate--freedom, hard work, trust, and opportunity--have nothing to do with today's breed of capitalism, which evidently has more to do with maximizing shareholder wealth at any expense. I believe the time is ripe for our society to accept a new model by which individuals can work with dignity, where their contributions are genuinely valued and recognized, where job security is commensurate with hard work and dedication. I believe the time is ripe for a more democratic and honest form of capitalism, where short-term earnings and the "expectations" of someone who knows quite little about your business, and nothing about your people, is NOT the driving force behind the decisions a business makes about how it treats its most important asset: its people. I know Democratic Capitalism is the answer to many of the problems we've witnessed in business in recent years. I highly recommend this book and hope you come to share its vision for a better future. Democracy and capitalism need not be in conflict.

Carey's book teaches our students how to think about democracy and capitalism at the same time. Carey's revolutionary coupling of the two political/economic agendas that we affirm the most--democracy and capitalism--inspires optimism in students who think that business and finance is "some win/some lose." Carey's approach is an "everybody wins" affirmation.

Carey is the new Adam Smith, America's answer to Marx. Himself an experienced and successful businessman, he has a specific template for running real businesses in a democratic-capitalistic manner that means long-term higher profitability.

Carey has spotted the enemy: finance capitalists, the people who "make money on money" but do not produce anything. Finance capitalism is now running the world economically, and Washington is in their hip-pocket (e.g. Cheney and Enron). Carey names names, and he tells us what to do about it in no uncertain terms.

This is "must" reading for anyone who teaches economics, finance, business, economy theory, economic ethics. Carey appeals especially to academics, telling us how to do our job better. "One more business guru with a message for academe?" Yes, but his message is bang-on!

Very good book.
First chapter shows the basics of derivatives (someone would like Hull's for more detail).
Second is what I look for. Introduces derivatives pricing and stochastic processes by example.
From Black-Sholes to exotics and interest rate options, the reader will find PDE equation, boundary conditions and (a lot of) closed formulas.
Everything step-by-step. It is not a formula reference (like Haug's) but a book you will study in order to take practice to construct your own models.
Second half of book is about numeric solution. Well explained, a lot of case studies, but no pseudo-code or source code CD. Buy a Numerical Analysis book to support you with algorithm and coding if you need.

This is a GREAT book... if you are looking for treatment of "options pricing" from 2 specific perspectives.

In the first half of the book, the authors tackle the pricing issue using PDEs only, paying little attention to the Martingale approach. The treatment is VERY detailed, starting with the Ito Lemma (one dimension and n-state variables), and gradually moving from Vanilla to Exotic options. There is also a shorter chapter on Interest Rate Derivatives.

The greatest thing about the book is that every result is either proved or strongly justified, and that each section nicely builds on previous results. The Barrier & Lookback options pricing formulas are thoroughly developped and the authors do not try to skate around more complicated aspects of the theory. The sections on American options (Linear Complementarity & Free Boundary Formulations, location of the free boundary) are gems! The book is obviously math intensive and sometimes a little dry, but efforts to go through all the sections are well rewarded.

In a second part, specific numerical techniques for solving the PDEs are thoroughly explained. First, numerical techniques are reviewed in a very tight chapter, swiftly and clearly presenting all one needs to know to efficiently tackle solving PDEs numerically. Then, specific option problems are discussed in details. No code is provided, but the mathematical procedures are very well laid out.

Overall, I found the monograph a lot more mathematically detailed than most other books on the market (Hull, Wilmott, etc...), while being relatively good at clearly highlighting why certain issues are problematic and constantly keeping the big picture in perspective.

Somewhat surprisingly for a first edition and given the sometimes complex equations, the editing is VERY tight (good English, few typos) and the incremental steps are well balanced in terms of providing enough information for reader to easily fill the gaps. The only suggestion for further editions would be to collate ALL the pricing formulas (some, when replicating calculations already presented, are left to be demonstrated as an exercise) in an Annex for quick reference. More coverage of Interest Rate models using the same detailed approach would also definitely add value.

In all, a very good book.
Kudos !!