Packt Enterprise

Packt Enterprise will continue to develop the focussed, hands-on books that readers know Packt for. The brand aims to provide the real world knowledge and wisdom that IT professionals with from-the-trenches experience can offer.

Through Packt Enterprise, Packt can move more deeply into the world of Enterprise software. Specialisation allows a greater focus on, and better understanding of, Enterprise technologies and the people who work with them.

Packt Enterprise books can be summed up through the tagline "Professional Expertise Distilled". They take in-the-trenches knowledge from experienced software professionals, and distil it into a single, easy to follow manuscript.

Latest Articles

Creating sheet objects and starting new list using Qlikview 11

by B. Diane Blackwood | September 2013 | Enterprise Articles

In this article by B. Diane Blackwood, author of the book Instant QlikView 11 Application Development, we will create more sheet objects, starting with a new list box to begin analyzing our loaded data. We can add dimensions for analysis. We can format our data and other enhancements by right-clicking on our sheet or our sheet objects that were created by the wizard. For example, with this data, we can add a box for the Company dimension data and format the data to have dollar signs and commas.

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SOA Application Design

by Matt Brasier Nicholas Wright | September 2013 | Cookbooks Enterprise Articles SOA Oracle

In this article by Matt Brasier and Nicholas Wright, the authors of this book Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook, we will look at the ways in which you can design your application for high performance.The topics that will be covered are:

Using BPEL process parallelization
Using non-blocking service invocations in BPEL flows
Turning off payload validation and composite state monitoring
Designing BPEL processes to reduce persistence
Using parallel routing rules
Setting HTTP timeouts for external HTTP services
Tuning BPEL adapter properties

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Quick start – writing your first MDX query

by Nicholas Emond | September 2013 | Enterprise Articles Microsoft

In this article by Nicholas Emond, the author of the book Instant MDX Queries for SQL Server 2012, it is explained that a MDX query is coded and executed against a cube to have a result in a specific format return to the client application.

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Introduction to XenConvert

by Gohar Ahmed | September 2013 | Enterprise Articles

In this article by Gohar Ahmed, the author of Implementing Citrix XenServer Quickstarter we will learn about XenConvert.

Citrix XenConvert is a tool to convert physical machines to virtual machines; that is, a Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) conversion tool. It converts a Windows-based workload from a server or desktop machine to a virtual machine in a XenServer, virtual appliance, virtual disk, or virtual disk connected to Provisioning Services.

A conversion involves copying the contents of the workload and configuring its operating systems for XenServer. So, the workload can be applications and data besides the base Windows operating system. XenConvert can convert from a single server or desktop (physical machine) running Windows to a provisioned virtual disk or VHD that Provisioning Services can import.

A good scenario would be converting a physical Windows server with all the applications hosted in it to a virtual machine for pre-staging, so that the hosted applications' behavior can be tested after adjustments. This can be the operating system upgrade or application updates/upgrades.

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Unpacking System Center 2012 Orchestrator

by Andreas Baumgarten (MVP) Samuel Erskine (MCT) Steve Beaumont | September 2013 | Cookbooks Enterprise Articles Microsoft

In this article by Andrew Duckworth, Steve Beaumont, and Baumgarten Andreas, authors of Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 Cookbook, we will cover the following recipes:

Planning the Orchestrator deployment
Installing a single-server deployment
Installing the Management Server in a multiserver deployment

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Getting on the IBus

by David Boike | September 2013 | Enterprise Articles Open Source

In this article, by David Boike author of Learning NServiceBus, we'll explore the basics of NServiceBus by downloading the NServiceBus code and using it to build a simple solution to send a message from an MVC website to a backend service for processing.

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Salesforce CRM Functions

by Paul Goodey | September 2013 | CRM Enterprise Articles

This article created by Paul Goodey, the author of Salesforce CRM: The Definitive Admin Handbook Second Edition, gives an overview of the functional areas within Salesforce CRM where we will look at the process from campaign to customer and beyond. Within the functional areas there are various touch points where the business teams concerned with marketing, sales, and customer service have to agree on roles and responsibilities for aspects of the business processes.

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Working with Time

by Sherry Li | September 2013 | Cookbooks Enterprise Articles

In this article by Sherry Li, author of MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services Cookbook we will cover:

Calculating the YTD (Year-To-Date) value
Calculating the YoY (Year-over-Year) growth (parallel periods)
Calculating moving averages

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Creating a pivot table

by Leo Taehyung Lee | September 2013 | Enterprise Articles Microsoft

In this article by Leo Taehyung Lee, the author of Instant Creating Data Models with PowerPivot How-to, we will learn to use the raw data to make some pivot tables that can help us make smart business decisions!

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