Название: New Perspectives Collection, Microsoft 365 & Excel 2021 Comprehensive
Автор: Patrick Carey
Издательство: Cengage Learning
Год: 2023
Страниц: 818
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 30.2 MB

Using a unique in-depth, case-based approach, Cengage's New Perspectives Collection, Microsoft 365 & Excel 2021: Comprehensive helps you prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification exam – and success in your future career. As you apply Microsoft Office skills to real-world business scenarios based on Burning Glass market insights, you will sharpen your critical-thinking and problem-solving skills. Professional tips and insights incorporated throughout provide context and relevancy to real-world practice, while ProSkills Boxes help strengthen your employability skills, including written and verbal communication. Microsoft Excel (or just Excel) is a program to record, analyze, and present data arranged in the form of a spreadsheet. A spreadsheet is a grouping of text and numbers in a rectangular grid or table. Spreadsheets are often used in business for budgeting, inventory management, and financial reporting because they unite text, numbers, and charts within one document. They can also be employed for personal use in planning a family budget, tracking expenses, or creating a list of personal items. The advantage of an electronic spreadsheet is that the content can be easily edited and updated to reflect changing financial conditions.

Название: Active Directory and PowerShell for Jobseekers: Learn how to create, manage, and secure user accounts
Автор: Wróbel Mariusz
Издательство: BPB Publications
Год: 2024
Страниц: 474
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 75.0 MB

Start your career in Identity and Access Management field by learning about Active Directory and automate your work using PowerShell. “Active Directory and PowerShell for Jobseekers” takes you by the hand, and equips you with essential skills sought after by employers in today's IT landscape. This book walks you through every step of the Active Directory lifecycle, covering design, deployment, configuration, and management. Automation using PowerShell is emphasized, helping you learn how to automate processes with scripts. It begins with Active Directory management, creating a development environment in Azure. In the next stage you get a thorough overview of environment creation, configuration, monitoring, security settings and recovery. With examples presented through both manual steps and automated PowerShell scripts, this book allows readers to choose their preferred method for learning PowerShell automation. Additionally, it also introduces DevOps tools for cloud infrastructure, covering update management, monitoring, security, and automation resources. By the end of this book, you'll be confident and prepared to tackle real-world Active Directory challenges. You will also be able to impress potential employers with your in-demand skills and launch your career as a sought-after IT security specialist.

Название: The Secrets of AI Value Creation: A Practical Guide to Business Value Creation with Artificial Intelligence from Strategy to Execution
Автор: Michael Proksch, Nisha Paliwal, Wilhelm Bielert
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2024
Страниц: 416
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

Unlock unprecedented levels of value at your firm by implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI). In The Secrets of AI Value Creation: Practical Guide to Business Value Creation with Artificial Intelligence from Strategy to Execution, a team of renowned artificial intelligence leaders and experts delivers an insightful blueprint for unlocking the value of AI in your company. This book presents a comprehensive framework that can be applied to your organisation, exploring the value drivers and challenges you might face throughout your AI journey. You will uncover effective strategies and tactics utilised by successful Artificial Intelligence (AI) achievers to propel business growth. In the book, you'll explore critical value drivers and key capabilities that will determine the success or failure of your company's AI initiatives. The authors examine the subject from multiple perspectives, including business, technology, data, algorithmics, and psychology. Whether you're just someone interested in exploring the subject or a seasoned business leader, an AI expert, an enterprise data and AI manager, a data scientist, an engineer, or an AI start‐up, you might be seeking guidance on how to create value with AI. Regardless of your background, you may find yourself wrestling with the puzzle of AI's value creation.

Название: Security Strategies in Windows Platforms and Applications, 4th Edition
Автор: Robert Shimonski, Michael G. Solomon
Издательство: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Год: 2024
Страниц: 904
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 22.8 MB

Revised and updated to keep pace with this ever-changing field, Security Strategies in Windows Platforms and Applications, Fourth Edition focuses on new risks, threats, and vulnerabilities associated with the Microsoft Windows operating system, placing a particular emphasis on Windows 11, and Windows Server 2022. The Fourth Edition highlights how to use tools and techniques to decrease risks arising from vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows operating systems and applications. The book also includes a resource for readers desiring more information on Microsoft Windows OS hardening, application security, and incident management. With its accessible writing style, and step-by-step examples, this must-have resource will ensure readers are educated on the latest Windows security strategies and techniques. This book has also been fully updated to reflect current technology trends such as cloud, AI/ML, DevOps and the use of Microsoft Azure.

Название: Financial Excel: The crash course to mastery
Автор: Vincent Bisette, Hayden Van Der Post
Издательство: Reactive Publishing
Год: 2024
Страниц: 341
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 39.3 MB

Absolutely, here's a marketing synopsis tailored to catch the attention of your target audience. Unlock the Power of Excel: The Financial Professional's Ultimate Guide. Dive into the pages of "Financial Excel" and emerge with the prowess to transform your financial and accounting tasks into a seamless stream of efficiency. Vincent Bissette's groundbreaking guide is more than just a manual; it's a masterclass in harnessing the full potential of Excel, tailored specifically for finance professionals. In today's fast-paced financial world, proficiency in Excel is not just an advantage—it's a necessity. "Financial Excel" is meticulously crafted to elevate your skills from foundational to advanced, ensuring that you stay ahead of the curve in a competitive industry. Whether you're a seasoned finance veteran looking to update your repertoire or a newcomer aiming to make a mark, "Financial Excel" is your indispensable companion. Embrace the opportunity to become a fluent, confident, and resourceful Excel expert who can confidently claim that no spreadsheet is too complex, no data set too daunting.

Название: Mastering Snowflake Platform: Generate, fetch, and automate Snowflake data as a skilled data practitioner
Автор: Pooja Kelgaonkar
Издательство: BPB Publications
Год: 2024
Страниц: 400
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

Handling ever evolving data for business needs can get complex. Traditional methods create bulky and costly-to-maintain data systems. Here, Snowflake emerges as a cost-effective solution, catering to both traditional and modern data needs with zero or minimal maintenance costs. This book helps you grasp Snowflake, guiding you to create complete solutions from start to finish. The starting focus covers Snowflake architecture, key features, native loading and unloading capabilities, ANSI SQL support, and processing of diverse data types and objects. The next part utilizes acquired knowledge to look into implementing data security, governance, and collaborations, utilizing Snowflake's features like data sharing and cloning. The final part explores advanced topics, including streams, tasks, performance optimizations, cost efficiencies, and operationalization with automated monitoring. Real-time use cases and reference architectures are provided to assist readers in implementing data warehouse, data lake, and data mesh solutions with Snowflake.

Название: Data Visualization for People of All Ages
Автор: Nancy Organ
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2024
Страниц: 333
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 25.0 MB

Data visualization is the art and science of making information visible. On paper and in our imaginations, it’s a language of shapes and colors that holds our best ideas and most important questions. As we find ourselves swimming in data of all kinds, visualization can help us to understand, express, and explore the richness of the world around us. No matter your age or background, this book opens the door to new ways of thinking and sharing through the power of data visualization. Data Visualization for People of All Ages is a field guide to visual literacy, born from the author’s personal experience working with world-class scholars, engineers, and scientists. By walking through the different ways of showing data—including color, angle, position, and length—you’ll learn how charts and graphs truly work so that no visualization is ever a mystery or out of reach. It doesn’t stop at what fits on a page, either. You’ll journey into cutting-edge topics like data sonification and data physicalization, using sound and touch to share data across the different senses. Packed with practical examples and exercises to help you connect the dots, this book will teach you how to create and understand data visualizations on your own—all without writing a single line of code or getting tangled up in software. Written with accessibility in mind, this book invites everyone to the table to share the joy of one of today’s most necessary skills.

Название: DBA Essentials for 21c: Installing Oracle Database 21c on OCI Compute
Автор: Divit Gupta
Издательство: BPB Publications
Год: 2024
Страниц: 288
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 28.2 MB

Oracle Database 21c is the engine driving some of the most critical systems on the planet. "DBA Essentials for 21c," equips you with the essential knowledge and skills to confidently manage and optimize your Oracle Database in the cloud. This book breaks down Oracle Database Setup Wizard, Configuration Assistant, and steps for creating and configuring databases. In the first section, you will learn the basics of 21c, understand its Infrastructure, use its advantages, and learn its role in the modern data landscape. As you progress, you will gain knowledge of tools like Setup Wizard and Configuration Assistant to build powerful database structures and optimize performance. Then advanced topics are covered, where you will discover how to secure your data, troubleshoot common issues, and automate tasks for efficiency with practical tips and best practices. After reading this book, you will be highly competent in Oracle Database 21c installation on OCI Compute. You will grasp the fundamental concepts and sophisticated features to deploy databases in a cloud environment.

Название: The Ultimate Power Query Cookbook for Power BI and Excel: Leveraging Power Query for collecting, combining and transforming your data
Автор: Dominick Raimato
Издательство: BPB Publications
Год: 2024
Страниц: 398
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 19.5 MB

"The Ultimate Power Query Cookbook for Power BI and Excel" serves up easy-to-follow recipes that transform data into meaningful insights. You will learn to clean messy files, combine datasets, and even use AI magic to Power BI and Excel. This book will walk you through the basics of getting connected to data with Power Query. You will understand how to ingest data from files, folders, databases, websites, APIs, and other third party sources. Once connected, you will learn how to transform the data so it is ready for your use. We will clean up columns, filter, replace, extract, and classify data in Power Query to meet your needs. The book offers over 100 practical recipes, ensuring you understand each step with clear explanations and examples. Lastly, we will go over advanced techniques to help optimize and simplify your transformations allowing fast refreshes all while helping you manage them in the future. This book will help you know how to apply these techniques and recipes to your data all while understanding the implications of making certain decisions. This will enable you to have better conversations with other data professionals who are providing data for your use.

Название: Data Warehouse and Data Mining: Concepts, techniques and real life applications
Автор: Jugnesh Kumar
Издательство:
Год: 2024
Страниц: 214
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

Data warehouse and data mining are essential technologies in the field of data analysis and business intelligence. Data warehouse provides a centralized repository of structured data and facilitates data storage and retrieval. Data mining, on the other hand, utilizes various algorithms and techniques to extract valuable patterns, trends, and insights from large datasets. The book explains the ins and outs of data warehousing by discussing its principles, benefits, and components, differentiating it from traditional databases. The readers will explore warehouse architecture, learn to navigate OLTP and OLAP systems, grasping the crux of the difference between ROLAP and MOLAP. The book is designed to help you discover data mining secrets with techniques like classification and clustering. You will be able to advance your skills by handling multimedia, time series, and text, staying ahead in the evolving data mining landscape. Data Warehousing introduces the foundational concepts behind the creation and management of centralized repositories, offering a blueprint for designing efficient data storage systems.