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The business of the future - your business - will be a "thinking" business, or what IBM calls a cognitive business. A cognitive business uses its data assets to gain competitive advantage. The technology that helps you do all the things you want to do with your data assets is called information technology (IT). One of the main components of busines

Welcome to Cloud Services For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition. Whether public, private, or hybrid, cloud computing is becoming an increasingly integral part of many companies' business and technology strategy. Cloud services help companies turn IT resources into a flexible, elastic, and self-service set of resources that they can more easily manage an

A handbook to the Coq software for writing and checking mathematical proofs, with a practical engineering focus. The technology of mechanized program verification can play a supporting role in many kinds of research projects in computer science, and related tools for formal proof-checking are seeing increasing adoption in mathematics and engineerin

Scripting and automation tasks often need to extract particular portions of text from input data or modify them from one format to another. This book will help you learn Regular Expressions as implemented in JavaScript. Regular expressions can be considered as a mini-programming language in itself and is well suited for a variety of text processing

This open book walks through all the most important and useful Excel functionalities that will advance a career in financial services. From logical functions such as IFERROR to calculating the yield of a bond, CFI's Excel book provides the reader with numerous examples and key shortcuts. The authors express the hope that the reader will find this b

This online book is intended for those looking to gain an introduction into the world of user experience (UX) design or to freshen up their knowledge of the field. The author notes that the sheer number of topics covered in UX design is mind-boggling, citing interaction design, design thinking, and usability as just a few examples, which is what ma

This open access book will introduce the main concepts required to write a 3D game using the LWJGL 3 library. LWJGL is a Java library that provides access to native APIs used in the development of graphics (OpenGL), audio (OpenAL) and parallel computing (OpenCL) applications. This library leverages the high performance of native OpenGL applications

The primary intended audience of this open book is professional C++ developers who want to understand bare metal development a little bit better, get to know how to use their favourite programming language in an embedded environment, and probably bring their C++ skills to an "expert" level. The author asks "Why professional?" and explains that it i

Innovation and competition are driving analysts and data scientists toward increasingly complex predictive modeling and machine learning algorithms. This complexity makes these models accurate but also makes their predictions difficult to understand. When accuracy outpaces interpretability, human trust suffers, affecting business adoption, regulato

Microservices fundamentally change the way you design enterprise software. By adding network dependencies to your application logic, you invite in a host of potential hazards that grow proportionally with the number of connections you make. With the updated edition of this practical ebook, application architects and development team leads will lear