Who will remain a loyal customer and who won\'t? Which messages are most effective with which segments? How can customer value be maximized? This book supplies powerful tools for extracting the answers to these and other crucial business questions from the corporate databases where they lie buried....

Data warehouses provide a much-needed strategy for organizations to collect, store, and analyze vast amounts of business data. As businesses expand both brick-and-mortar and online activities, the field of data warehousing has become increasingly important. Since it was first published in 1990, W. H....

Master the power of visual data mining tools and techniques By harnessing the power of visual data mining tools and techniques, business analysts can quickly and easily retrieve information to solve common business problems from an entirely new perspective....

An updated edition of the bestselling book on managing IT projects; New topics introduced in this edition include Adaptive and eXtreme management methods, team selection and management, and risk analysis; Immerses readers in a simulated real-world situation where they must perform as seasoned project managers to move example projects through their ...

The Linux Process Manager is a line-by-line explanation of the subset of the Linux source code kernel which deals with process management, covering: process creation, scheduling and termination; synchronisation, including locksand semaphores; interrupts (hardware and software); signal handling....

This book is a comprehensive guide that walks the reader through developing and consuming XML Web Services using the .NET platform and ASP.NET. It begins with an overview of the .NET framework and an explanation of the process behind XML Web Services, and then quickly delves into building and consuming Web Services....