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Get up and running fast with the PowerPoint 2019PowerPoint continues to be the go-to tool for business presentations. The software helps anyone who needs to communicate clearly by creating powerful and effective slideshow presentations featuring data in the form of charts, clip art, sound, and video. You can even use it to create presentations for the Web.In PowerPoint 2019 For Dummies, expert Doug Lowe shows you how to use this popular tool to make show-stopping presentations that will get your message across -- and your audience excited.* Create a slide presentation with special effects* Work with master slides and templates* Collaborate with other users in the cloud* Add charts, clip art, sound, and videoWant to learn to use PowerPoint quickly and efficiently? Look no further!

The bestselling Excel book on the market -- now in a new edition covering the latest version of Excel!Excel is the spreadsheet and data analysis tool of choice for people across the globe who utilize the Microsoft Office suite to make their work and personal lives easier. It is estimated that 1 in 7 people on the planet use Microsoft Office! If you're one of them, and want to get up to speed on the latest changes in Excel, you've come to the right place.Excel 2019 For Dummies has been updated to reflect the major changes and features made to Excel and covers everything you need to know to perform any spreadsheet task at hand. It includes information on creating and editing worksheets, formatting cells, entering formulas, creating and editing charts, inserting graphs, designing database forms, adding database records, using seek-and-find options, printing, adding hyperlinks to worksheets, saving worksheets as web pages, adding existing worksheet data to an existing webpage, pivot tables, pivot charts, formulas and functions, Excel data analysis, sending worksheets via e-mail, and so much more!* Get to know the new Excel interface* Become a pro at the spreadsheet and data analysis tool that's available as part of the Microsoft Office suite* Find time-tested and trusted advice from bestselling author and expert Greg Harvey* Use Excel to streamline your processes and make your work life easier than ever beforeWritten by a bestselling author and seasoned educator, Excel 2019 For Dummies makes it easier than ever to get everything out of this powerful data tool.

Written by a member of Microsoft's Power BI team, this resource provides a practical step by step guide on creating a financial dashboard. The book covers in detail how to combine and shape the relevant data, build the dashboard in Power BI, providing layout and design tips and tricks, prepare the model to work with fiscal dates, and show values used in many financial reports, including year-to-date, variance-to-target, percentage-of-total, and running totals reports.

Accelerate your digital transformation and break down silos with Microsoft Dynamics 365 ItΓÇÖs no secret that running a business involves several complex parts like managing staff, financials, marketing, and operationsΓÇöjust to name a few. ThatΓÇÖs where Microsoft Dynamics 365, the most profitable business management tool, comes in. In Microsoft Dynamics 365 For Dummies, youΓÇÖll learn the aspects of the program and each of its applications from Customer Service to Financial Management. With expert author Renato BelluΓÇÖs clear instructions and helpful tips, youΓÇÖll be managing to your fullest advantage before you know it. LetΓÇÖs get started!  Digitally transform your business by connecting CRM and ERP Use data to make decisions across all business functions Integrate Dynamics 365 with Office 365 and LinkedIn  Manage financials and operations Are you running a dynamic business? This book shows you how!

This is the official Pocket Guide for the TOGAF® Standard, Version 9.2, from The Open Group. It is published in hard copy and electronic formats by Van Haren Publishing. The TOGAF Standard, a standard of The Open Group, is a proven Enterprise Architecture methodology and framework used by the world''s leading organizations to improve business efficiency. It is the most prominent and reliable Enterprise Architecture standard, ensuring consistent standards, methods, and communication among Enterprise Architecture professionals. Those professionals who are fluent in the TOGAF approach enjoy greater industry credibility, job effectiveness, and career opportunities. The TOGAF approach helps practitioners avoid being locked into proprietary methods, utilize resources more efficiently and effectively, and realize a greater return on investment.

Software is everywhere today, but countless software products and projects die a slow death without ever making any impact. The result is a tremendous amount of time and money wasted due to wrong assumptions, lack of focus, poor communication of objectives, lack of understanding and misalignment with overall goals. There has to be a better way to deliver! This handbook is a practical guide to impact mapping, a simple yet incredibly effective method for collaborative strategic planning that helps organisations make an impact with software. Impact mapping helps to create better plans and roadmaps that ensure alignment of business and delivery, and are easily adaptable to change. Impact mapping fits nicely into several current trends in software product management and release planning, including goal-oriented requirements engineering, frequent iterative delivery, agile and lean software methods, lean startup product development cycles, and design thinking. About the Author Gojko Adzic is a strategic software delivery consultant who works with ambitious teams to improve the quality of their software products and processes. Gojko won the 2012 Jolt Award for the best book, was voted by peers as the most influential agile testing professional in 2011, and his blog won the UK Agile Award for the best online publication in 2010.

An indispensable collection of practical tips and real-world advice for tackling common Python problems and taking your code to the next level.

Machine learning is an intimidating subject until you know the fundamentals. If you understand basic coding concepts, this introductory guide will help you gain a solid foundation in machine learning principles.

Become a master hacker with this expert-written deep dive into hardware attacks on embedded systems.

Think beyond bullet points-and amplify the impact of your message! Now in its 4th Edition, this popular classic illuminates an innovative, step-by-step methodology designed to unlock the amazing visual story waiting to be released from your message. Communications expert Cliff Atkinson shows how to apply classic storytelling tenets and practical, research-based guidelines as you work with Microsoft PowerPoint-for memorable, meaningful, and persuasive visual stories. Change your approach-and transform your results!

With Smart Card Programming the reader will have the expert guidance he need to work with smart cards. The book offers a comprehensive guide, to the technological aspects related to smart cards, providing an high level overview of the technological panorama and giving an in-depth technical coverage about the related architectures, programming paradigms and APIs. The first part of the book introduces the smart card technologies, the general concepts and a few case studies. It is addressed also to non-technical reader who wishes an high level overview on smart card world. The second part of the book is a technical guide to smart card specifications and programming paradigms. It dives into technical topics about smart card programming and applications development in C/C++, C#, Visual Basic and Java. Key features include: - Contact and Contactless Cards - ISO 7816 - NFC - JavaCard Framework - PC/SC - PKCS#11 - OpenCard Framework - Java - Smart Card I/O - GlobalPlatform - EMV

Getting Real details the business, design, programming, and marketing principles of 37signals. The book is packed with keep-it-simple insights, contrarian points of view, and unconventional approaches to software design. This is not a technical book or a design tutorial, it's a book of ideas. Anyone working on a web app - including entrepreneurs, designers, programmers, executives, or marketers - will find value and inspiration in this book. 37signals used the Getting Real process to launch five successful web-based applications (Basecamp, Campfire, Backpack, Writeboard, Ta-da List), and Ruby on Rails, an open-source web application framework, in just two years with no outside funding, no debt, and only 7 people (distributed across 7 time zones). Over 500,000 people around the world use these applications to get things done. Now you can find out how they did it and how you can do it too. It's not as hard as you think if you Get Real.

Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-761—and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of SQL Server 2016 Transact-SQL data management, queries, and database programming. Designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:• Filter, sort, join, aggregate, and modify data• Use subqueries, table expressions, grouping sets, and pivoting• Query temporal and non-relational data, and output XML or JSON• Create views, user-defined functions, and stored procedures• Implement error handling, transactions, data types, and nulls This Microsoft Exam Ref:• Organizes its coverage by exam objectives• Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you• Assumes you have experience working with SQL Server as a database administrator, system engineer, or developer• Includes downloadable sample database and code for SQL Server 2016 SP1 (or later) and Azure SQL Database

This bundle contains the following three Exam Refs, direct from Microsoft:Exam Ref 70-740 Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016, 9780735698826Exam Ref 70-741 Networking with Windows Server 2016, 9780735697423Exam Ref 70-742 Identity with Windows Server 2016, 9780735698819These are the three exams necessary to receive MCSA certification in Windows Server 2016. This bundles saves the customer $20 versus the price of purchasing the three Exam Refs separately. Prepare for Microsoft certification Exams 70-740, 70-741, and 70-742 Covers all three exams needed for the MCSA in WIndows Server 2016 Save $20 versus the cost of buying the Exam Refs individually Organizes its coverage by the exam objectives Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge the exam candidate

Exam Ref 70-761 Querying Data with Transact-SQL offers professional-level preparation that helps candidates maximise their exam performance and sharpen their skills on the job. It focuses on the specific areas of expertise modern database professionals need to succeed with T-SQL database queries. Exam Ref 70-762 Developing SQL Databases offers professional-level preparation that helps candidates maximise their exam performance and sharpen their skills on the job. It focuses on the specific areas of expertise modern database professionals need to succeed with SQL database development. These are the two exams necessary for the MCSA certification in SQL Server 2016 Database Development.

KEY FEATURES* A great start with a great tutorial * Concise and easy-to-follow * Based on years of successful training techniques * Hands-on exercises and labs AUDIENCE Experience with Windows administration is helpful. No programming or scripting experience is assumed.

Learn how to use, deploy, and maintain Apache Spark with this comprehensive guide, written by the creators of the open-source cluster-computing framework. With an emphasis on improvements and new features in Spark 2.0, authors Bill Chambers and Matei Zaharia break down Spark topics into distinct sections, each with unique goals.

Domain-Driven Design Distilled brings DDD to life. Whether you're a developer, architect, analyst, consultant, or customer, Vernon helps you truly understand it so you can benefit from its remarkable power.

This book is designed to equip readers of all levels, from student to professional, with neuroscience knowledge and user experience guidelines and methodologies. This knowledge will help readers identify the ingredients for successful and engaging video games, while providing a better experience for their audience.

In todays lightning-fast technology world, good product management is critical to maintaining a competitive advantage. Yet, managing human beings and navigating complex product roadmaps is no easy task, and its rare to find a product leader who can steward a digital product from concept to launch without a couple of major hiccups. Why do some product leaders succeed while others dont?This insightful book presents interviews with nearly 100 leading product managers from all over the world. Authors Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson, and Nate Walkingshaw draw on decades of experience in product design and development to capture the approaches, styles, insights, and techniques of successful product managers. If you want to understand what drives good product leaders, this book is an irreplaceable resource.In three parts, Product Leadership helps you explore:Themes and patterns of successful teams and their leaders, and ways to attain those characteristicsBest approaches for guiding your product team through the startup, emerging, and enterprise stages of a companys evolutionStrategies and tactics for working with customers, agencies, partners, and external stakeholders

The Art of Tom Clancy's The Division is the ultimate behind the scenes look at making of the latest game in the critically acclaimed Tom Clancy franchise. With over 300 images including sketches and concept art, and in-depth commentary throughout from the artists and creators.

Vim is a fast and efficient text editor that will make you a faster and more efficient developer. It's available on almost every OS, and if you master the techniques in this book, you'll never need another text editor.

The Car Hacker's Handbook shows how to identify vulnerabilities in modern automotive vehicles.

This new edition to the classic book by ggplot2 creator Hadley Wickham highlights compatibility with knitr and RStudio. ggplot2 is a data visualization package for R that helps users create data graphics, including those that are multi-layered, with ease. With ggplot2, it's easy to: produce handsome, publication-quality plots with automatic legends created from the plot specificationsuperimpose multiple layers (points, lines, maps, tiles, box plots) from different data sources with automatically adjusted common scalesadd customizable smoothers that use powerful modeling capabilities of R, such as loess, linear models, generalized additive models, and robust regressionsave any ggplot2 plot (or part thereof) for later modification or reusecreate custom themes that capture in-house or journal style requirements and that can easily be applied to multiple plotsapproach a graph from a visual perspective, thinking about how eachcomponent of the data is represented on the final plot This book will be useful to everyone who has struggled with displaying data in an informative and attractive way. Some basic knowledge of R is necessary (e.g., importing data into R). ggplot2 is a mini-language specifically tailored for producing graphics, and you'll learn everything you need in the book. After reading this book you'll be able to produce graphics customized precisely for your problems, and you'll find it easy to get graphics out of your head and on to the screen or page.

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KEY SELLING POINTS Practical hands-on guide Quickly develop Spring applications Author insights based on years of Spring Development Covers newest features of Spring Boot AUDIENCE Written for readers familiar with the Spring Framework.