Business Technology
97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know, 1st Edition
By Richard Monson-Haefel
In this unique technical book, today's leading software architects present valuable principles on key development issues that go way beyond technology. More than four dozen architects -- including Neal Ford, Michael Nygard, and Bill de h ra -- offer...
[Publish Date: February 2009]
Load Balancing, Uptime and Scalability: A Systematic Approach to Web ...
Register for this Dec. 8th half-day online conference focused on high performance web sites, web performance business impacts and performance technologies. Hear from experts, share your ideas, ask questions and join in a conversation with panelists and other participants all looking to build a solid and profitable future for web operations.
[Publish Date: December 08, 2009]
Load Balancing, Uptime and Scalability: A Systematic Approach to Web ...
Register for this Dec. 8th half-day online conference focused on high performance web sites, web performance business impacts and performance technologies. Hear from experts, share your ideas, ask questions and join in a conversation with panelists and other participants all looking to build a solid and profitable future for web operations.
[Publish Date: December 08, 2009]
The New Community Rules, 1st Edition
By Tamar Weinberg
The social web provides businesses with a largely untapped marketing channel for products and services -- the trick is knowing how to take advantage of it. With this book, you'll understand how social web technologies work, and learn the most practic...
[Publish Date: July 2009]
Agile's Next Challenge: Selling it to the Business - O'Reilly Broadcast
By Timothy M. O'Brien
Agile's next challenge is selling executives on the idea of rapid iterative development without rigorous up-front planning. As Agile becomes a default mode of the development for most technology departments, it will need to be properly positioned in the Board room. How will Agile's evolution affect the way that the business views technology as a "profession".
[Publish Date: September 23, 2009]
A Social Software Adoption Program Accelerates the Business Value of Web ...
By Jeanne Murray
The benefits of Web 2.0 are well documented. Less clear is how to drive adoption once an organization has decided to employ collaborative business practices. Social software adoption is not merely a technology deployment that can be mandated; rather, a social software adoption program must incorporate business validation, include motivation for change, and accommodate existing norms among teams.
[Publish Date: November 16, 2009]
Self-Service Business Intelligence for MySQL: MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 ...
By James Dixon, Lance Walter
Join James Dixon, founder and chief technology officer of Pentaho Corporation, as he explains how to bring business intelligence to your MySQL deployments with Pentaho BI Suite – the most comprehensive suite of BI capabilities in open source.
[Publish Date: April 20, 2009]
Collaboration in the Cloud - Solutions That Drive Business Forward : Web ...
By Apratim Purakayastha
Collaboration workloads are perfectly suited for the cloud - providing solutions that drive effective collaboration and communication. Built on open web 2.0 technologies, IBM LotusLive collaboration solutions and social networking services allow businesses to manage projects, securely share information and communicate - inside and outside your company.
[Publish Date: November 16, 2009]
The Open Enterprise: How Web Tools and Culture Are Remaking Business: Web ...
By Stowe Boyd, Oliver Marks
Web 2.0 technology has had a direct impact on media and society with blogs, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace and others. Now, we are seeing adoption of Web 2.0 tools and culture in the business context as companies seek to harness these forces. What will the impacts be? How quickly will companies adopt new tools, and which ones? What can we expect in ten years? What should businesses do now?
[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]
The Question Concerning Social Technology - O'Reilly Radar
By Joshua-Michéle Ross
I am an evangelist of social media and an active participant: on Linked In (business), MySpace (music) and Facebook (increasingly my online identity), I blog on several sites and I am a daily user of Twitter. I also make my living speaking to companies about the value and operating principles of these more open, participatory technologies. I have read the proponents that abound (Why I Love Twitter, Groundswell, Here Comes Everybody etc.) and found much to agree with. I have read the detractors (“Is Google Making Us Stupid?” , Facebook Addiction is Real etc. ) and found little to agree with.
[Publish Date: May 18, 2009]
Building a Business on Open Source Distributed Computing: OSCON 2009 - ...
By Bradford Stephens
The end of "scale-up" computing is near. The coming wave of web-scale data is too big to justify exponentially increasing hardware costs for decreasing returns. Apache's "Cloud Stack" (Hadoop, Lucene, HBase, etc) is enabling Visible Technologies to move from a non-scalable MS-exclusive platform to a large cluster processing millions of pieces of content a day.Here's what we learned.
[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]
Speaker: Bill Rosenblatt: O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing ...
Bill Rosenblatt is president of GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies (www.giantstepsmts.com), a consulting firm whose clients include content providers and digital media technology companies. Bill bridges the gaps between business and technology in the digital media world. He brings content providers expertise in areas such as digital rights management, content management and distribution, cross-media strategy, and digital product strategy, and he provides technology vendors with market strategy, business development, and product management services.
[Publish Date: February 09, 2009]
