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Wow! eBook: Microsoft Dynamics CRM API Development for Online and On-Premise Environments - 5 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Microsoft Dynamics CRM API Development for Online and On-Premise Environments - 5 new eBooks

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM API Development for Online and On-Premise Environments

Posted: 14 Dec 2013 02:19 PM PST

Book Description

Microsoft Dynamics CRM has a robust API that includes web services and an extensive SDK.  As you develop CRM Plugins and custom integrations, you will find that there are many complexities and challenges associated with successfully interacting with this API.

In order to ensure that you have all of the tools necessary to achieve success with CRM development, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 API Development presents the essential aspects of API development including plugin development and registration.  In addition to Plugins, you will work through building out several integrations that work with both the SDK and the Web Service layer.  You will also build a C# application that creates records within CRM using the API, work with Scribe Online for integration and migration, design reports that read data from CRM using FetchXML, and interact with the OData REST service using JScript.  Once you've worked through the various topics presented, you will find that you will have the advanced skills required for working with CRM 2011 Online and On Premises. Foreword by Ismail Nalwala, Principal, IOTAP.

What you'll learn

  • Learn to develop, test, and deploy CRM Plugins
  • Create custom integrations using the CRM API
  • Create applications that interface with the SDK and CRM Web Services
  • Use JScript to read and write data using the OData REST service
  • Design SSRS reports that interact with CRM using FetchXML

Who this book is for
Experienced Microsoft Dynamics CRM developers new to version 2011, and all CRM developers new to Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Also for C# developers wanting to learn Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Plugins and Workflow Activities
Chapter 2. .NET Apps and the CRM SDK
Chapter 3. Integration and Migration
Chapter 4. JScript and the REST Endpoint API
Chapter 5. Reporting

Book Details

  • Paperback: 88 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (October 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430263466
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430263463
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Being Agile

Posted: 14 Dec 2013 02:12 PM PST

Book Description

Being Agile is your roadmap to successfully transforming your organization to an Agile culture. Veteran agile coach Mario Moreira teaches new adopters how to implement a robust Agile framework to derive from it the maximum business benefit in terms of customer value, revenue, and employee engagement.

Agile is a ubiquitous watchword in the corporate world, but only a minority of companies understand and practice what they pay lip service to. Too many content themselves with half-baked approximations such as Fragile (fragile Agile), ScrumBut (Scrum but not the practices), and Scrum Fall (mini-waterfalls in the sprints). Moreira shows maturing early adopters how to bridge the chasm between going through the motions of doing Agile and genuinely being Agile.

After a high-level synopsis of Agile's values and principles, methodologies (including Scrum, Kanban, DSDM, Leam, VFQ, and XP), and roles, Moreira plunges into the nitty-gritty of how to apply the ready, implement, coach, and hone (RICH) deployment model to all phases of a project in such a way as to embody and inculcate agile values and principles at the team level and promote agile transformation across your organization’s culture.

What you'll learn
Agile professionals, project managers, and middle, senior, and executive management in software engineering and development divisions and enterprises who read this book will learn how to:

  • Evaluate team candidates for traits, skills, behavior, and attitudes diagnostic of an Agile mindset
  • Set up Agile planning tools and framework
  • Map stakeholder engagement
  • Validate ongoing application of Agile best practices
  • Adapt Scrum teams and techniques for various needs and conditions

Who this book is for
The primary readership for this book comprises Agile professionals, product managers, and middle, senior, and executive management in software engineering and development divisions and enterprises. The secondary readership includes business analysts agile and software configuration managers.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Getting Started
Chapter 2. Crossing the Agile Chasm
Chapter 3. Business Benefits of Being Agile
Chapter 4. Importance of Customer Engagement
Chapter 5. Importance of Employee Engagement
Chapter 6. Foundations of Agile
Chapter 7. Ready, Implement, Coach, and Hone (RICH) Deployment Model
Chapter 8. Motivations for Moving to an Agile Culture
Chapter 9. Achieving an Agile Mindset
Chapter 10. Evaluating Executive Support and Team Willingness
Chapter 11. Treating Agile as a Transformation Project
Chapter 12. Adapting to Agile Roles and Responsibilities
Chapter 13. Evaluating Agile, Engineering, and Team Capability
Chapter 14. Establishing Agile Measures of Success
Chapter 15. Constructing a Scalable Agile Framework
Chapter 16. Establishing an Agile Education Program
Chapter 17. Creating a Customer Validation Vision
Chapter 18. Writing User Stories and Grooming the Backlog
Chapter 19. Working with Story Points, Velocity, and Burndowns
Chapter 20. Constructing Done Criteria to Promote Quality
Chapter 21. Considering Agile Tools within an ALM Framework
Chapter 22. Implementing, Coaching, and Honing Activities
Chapter 23. Adapting Governance and Performance Reviews
Chapter 24. Three Case Studies in Adopting Agile

Book Details

  • Paperback: 268 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (October 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 143025839X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430258391
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Improving Profit

Posted: 14 Dec 2013 02:08 PM PST

Book Description

Business of all sizes have a problem: How do you know—in real time—whether you are earning the profit you need to grow or even just stay in business? And which products or services are doing the "heavy lifting" in contributing to profit? Financial statements tell only part of the story. They are backward looking, for one thing, and they generally show results only in the aggregate. Worse, they never seem to reflect the hard work you're doing on a daily basis. As one manager said, "If I'm adding 25% profit to every job, why am I getting barely 5% net profit at the end of the year?"

Improving Profit: Using Contribution Metrics to Boost the Bottom Line solves this dilemma. As this book shows, Contribution-Based Activity (CBA) measures focus on two key levers that are fundamental to the operation of any business: financial contribution and units of activity. Knowing how to use these levers gets your company off the treadmill and on your way to stellar profitability. And as the 21 case studies show, CBA is surprisingly easy to apply to businesses of all types and all sizes.

What is "financial contribution"? Simply the amount above and beyond the cost of goods or materials sold that contributes to covering overhead and creating profit. As entrepreneur, business consultant, and professor Keith Cleland shows, few managers actually know the financial contribution their products and services make, nor how to amplify that contribution by  incremental adjustments to one or both levers. As you'll learn, the financial tool Cleland created, TARI (Target Average Rate Index), provides insight into each product's value. You'll not only learn which products are contributing the most to the bottom line, but how to unlock the profit potential in run-of-the-mill products or services. Improving Profit will help you:

  • Restore and boost profit levels for your entire operation
  • Relate your daily efforts to a transaction’s actual profitability
  • Focus on the two key performance indicators that can help you identify and solve problems affecting finance and productivity
  • Help everyone in the company—from CEO to janitor—understand how their activities help or hinder the company's fortunes
  • Make effective financial decisions

If you've ever wondered why your results don't match your hard work, hopes, and dreams, read this book. As the case studies make clear, identifying and applying TARI results in a significant—and often dramatic—boost to the bottom-line.

What you'll learn
Readers will learn to:

  • Improve the profitability of a job, product, service, or department
  • Price products and services correctly
  • Conserve cash and avoid financial crunches
  • Win desirable quotes and tenders
  • Identify and track productivity

Who this book is for
This book is for business managers, directors, consultants, students, professors, CPAs, and business advisers of all types.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Background to Contribution-Based Activity (CBA)
Chapter 2. Kitchen Utensil Manufacturer Taken to the Cleaners
Chapter 3. Printing Business Multiplies Net Profit by 500%
Chapter 4. Furniture Manufacturer Climbs Out of the Red
Chapter 5. Contractor Overcomes Competition to Make a Profit
Chapter 6. H orticultural Equipment Proprietor's Moment of Truth
Chapter 7. Wholesaler Nets $2.5M in 10+ Months
Chapter 8. Jeweler's Changed Focus Turns Red into Black
Chapter 9. Upmarket Café Learns How to Stay on Track
Chapter 10. Diesel Repair Shop Rescued from Sand-Up- Hill Country
Chapter 11. Garment Maker Multiplies Net Profit by 700%
Chapter 12. S witchboard Manufacturer Climbs into the Black
Chapter 13. B aker Identifies W here the Rubber Meets the Road
Chapter 14. Architectural Practice Eradicates a Malignant Cancer
Chapter 15. Accounting Firm Wins by Losing a Third of Its Fees
Chapter 16. Legal Firm Transfers Productivity to the Bottom Line
Chapter 17. Contractor Increases Strike Rate to 1 in 4
Chapter 18. Hot Bread Baker Discovers More to Bread than Flour
Chapter 19. Window Manufacturer's Flawed Foundation
Chapter 20. Multi-Home Contractor Discovers a New Way Home
Chapter 21. Award-Winning Hairdressing Salon Cuts Its Way Out of Bankruptcy
Chapter 22. Multi-Department Store Whitewashes the Past
Chapter 23. 14 Businesses Explore CBA/TARI

Appendix A. Questions Answered
Appendix B. Fast-Track Problem Resolution Guide
Appendix C. Definition of Terms
Appendix D. T he Business Wheel

Book Details

  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (October 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430263075
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430263074
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Have Fun, Get Paid

Posted: 14 Dec 2013 02:05 PM PST

Book Description

From performers who bask in the spotlight to those who find inspiration in the midnight glow of a computer monitor, the world has no shortage of creative people. While the day-to-day realities of a ballerina may be quite different from that of a novelist, actor, graphic artist, musician, or software developer, they share many things in common. Chief among these is the desire to make a living with their art.

Maybe you're working to build a sustainable, full-time creative career. Or perhaps you’re happy in the corporate world but would like to turn your love for music, dance, painting, or programming into a steady stream of extra income. Either way, if you're like most creative souls, you tend to focus on your passion to the exclusion of all else—and you may scorn the details of business and promotion. Yet as Have Fun, Get Paid: How to Make a Living with Your Creativity shows, developing business skills couldn't be more important for those who want to achieve success and generate steady income from their work.

With decades of professional experience in creative fields such as music, software, writing and speaking, bestselling author Christopher Duncan demystifies the path to getting paid for your artistic talents. With lighthearted stories and down-to-earth advice, he starts with the basics and shows you how to build a solid, dependable career. All that's required is consistent effort and a bit of commonsense. In Have Fun, Get Paid you will learn how to:

  • Find paying work and get the gigs
  • Market your talent without selling your soul
  • Build an image as a highly sought after professional
  • Manage the business details of your creative career
  • Harness the power of relationships for long term success

With advances in technology and the global reach of the Internet, creative people are empowered today  as never before. Have Fun, Get Paid will show you how to take control of your dreams and bring them to life.

What you'll learn
After reading Have Fun, Get Paid, you will learn:

  • What success means to you, no matter whether it entails becoming rich, earning personal validation from your work, or gaining the freedom to do things your own way
  • How to avoid focusing on your passion to the exclusion of all else so that you have the time and energy necessary to manage your business
  • Who your customers are, what value you provide to them, and how to keep them coming back for more
  • How to become an authority in your field by teaching others to do what you do
  • The ins and outs of sales and marketing, from the basics to new strategies

Who this book is for
Whether the goal is a full time living or a steady stream of part time income, creative people of all disciplines will gain the practical insights necessary to building a reputation as a professional. This image, coupled with effective promotion and the ability to foster lasting relationships, is the key to a rewarding career in the arts. Success is not reserved for the fortunate few but rather for those who are willing to roll up their sleeves and put in the effort required to achieve their goals. In Have Fun, Get Paid, you'll learn how to do exactly that.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Creative Mindset
Chapter 2. This Is Business
Chapter 3. Becoming Self-Sufficient
Chapter 4. What Do You Want?
Chapter 5. Think Like a Start-Up
Chapter 6. Image Building
Chapter 7. Spreading the Word
Chapter 8. Going the Distance
Chapter 9. The Power Behind the Throne
Chapter 10. Paying the Bills
Chapter 11. Taking Care of Business
Chapter 12. Your Personal Style

Book Details

  • Paperback: 232 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (October 013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430261005
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430261001
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Design Thinking for Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses

Posted: 14 Dec 2013 01:57 PM PST

Book Description

Having met Beverly Ingle and hearing her speak about design thinking, I was enlightened and enthused. With a depth of knowledge and obvious passion for the usage of design thinking, she has already helped many business people, myself included, inject greater creativity into problem solving to deliver better results—something that is a must for left-brainers! She has an amazingly refreshing ability to create deep understanding within her audience, and a hands-on, practical approach ensures that the results are manageable and within your grasp.
—Jill Robb, CEO, Ambition Digital; Belfast, United Kingdom

Design Thinking for Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses: Putting the Power of Design to Work is the first book on the subject for smaller businesses.

Until now, design thinking—a methodology for solving business problems and identifying opportunities—has been the playground for companies with big budgets, giving them the advantage of the innovation that comes from using the latest design thinking tools emerging from Stanford, Harvard, Northwestern, and elsewhere.

Now, thanks to design thinking expert Beverly Ingle, entrepreneurs and small-business owners can make the design thinking playground their own—and on a much smaller budget. Ingle provides the tools entrepreneurs need as well as step-by-step processes that show how to use design thinking methods to transform your business and drive organizational success.

Design Thinking for Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses offers just enough theory to provide you with working knowledge of design thinking, but its value lies in the practical, proven, hands-on information that you can put to use immediately. You will learn:

  • How to incorporate design thinking processes into everyday operations, and in what areas of business the approach is most valuable
  • How to use the most prevalent and popular design thinking tools (like ideation, prototyping, and rapid branding) effectively
  • How to use design thinking to identify and achieve your business goals and create new business models
  • How to create revenue-boosting new products and services using design thinking
  • How to improve the customer/user experience to create more loyal, profitable customers

By the time you’ve finished reading the last chapter of Design Thinking for Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses, you will not just be thinking about producing new products and services, boosting customer service, or developing new business opportunities—you’ll be doing it. Best, it'll show up in the top and bottom lines.

What you'll learn

  • How to incorporate design-thinking processes into everyday operations, and in what areas of business the approach is most valuable
  • How to use the most prevalent and popular design-thinking tools (like ideation, prototyping, and rapid branding) effectively.
  • How to use design thinking to identify and achieve your business goals and create new business models
  • How to create revenue-boosting new products and services using design thinking
  • How to improve the customer/user experience to create more loyal, profitable customers

Who this book is for
Entrepreneurs, and small-business owners along with their senior leadership teams.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Design Thinking
Chapter 2. The Role of Research in Design Thinking
Chapter 3. Designing a Business Strategy
Chapter 4. Designing Live Customer Experiences
Chapter 5. Designing Digital Customer Experiences
Chapter 6. Designing Services and Service Delivery
Chapter 7. Designing Marketing
Chapter 8. Designing for Change
Chapter 9. Designing for Growth

Appendix A. Case Studies
Appendix B. Metrics for Design Thinking
Appendix C. Glossary of Design Thinking Jargon
Appendix D. Resources

Book Details

  • Paperback: 172 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (October 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430261811
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430261810
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