Build business intelligence with insight from a professional

Microsoft Power Platform For Dummies covers the essentials you need to know to get started with Microsoft Power Platform, the suite of business intelligence applications designed to make your enterprise work smarter and more efficiently. You'll get a handle on managing and reporting data with Power BI, building no-code apps with Power Apps, creating simple web properties with Power Pages, and simplifying your day-to-day work with Power Automate. Written by a business consultant who's helped some of the world's largest organizations adopt, manage, and get work done with Power Platform, this book gets you through your work without working too hard to figure things out.

• Discover the tools that come with Power Platform and how they can help you build business intelligence
• Manage data, create apps, automate routine tasks, create web pages, and beyond
• Learn the current best practices for launching Power Platform in an organization
• Get step-by-step instructions for navigating the interface and setting up your tools

This is a great quick-start guide for anyone who wants to leverage Power Platform's BI tools.

Analyze data using Qlik analytics

This book is for anyone that develops Qlik Sense or QlikView apps - either entire apps, or individual visualizations in existing apps. Developers will be helped by the numerous scripting examples, and power users will find many ways to improve their Qlik skills. All longer scripts can be downloaded from HIC's web site.

Book description

This book contains all of the HIC's previously published blog posts and white papers, ranging from descriptions of the Qlik history to solving advanced data modelling problems. It also contains several previously not published articles. The book will help you

Write better code - both load scripts and expressions that define complex metricsSolve complex data modelling challenges, for example: Hierarchies, slowly changing dimensions, or multiple fact tablesOptimize your appsDefine calendars with bespoke time and date fields Create complex visualizations, for example bucketing or Pareto analysisUnderstand how the Qlik engine works internally Understand concepts specific to the Qlik engine, for example set analysis and the Aggr function

About the author

Olik is a leader in analytics and business intelligence. Its products Qlik Sense and QlikView have simplified analytics for millions of users and continues to do so. QlikView was introduced thirty years ago and was designed to provide fast and flexible analytics of complex multi-table data models.

The author Henric Cronström - known in the Qlik universe as HIC - belonged to the Qlik products core team from the beginning and has worked with requirement specification and documentation, as well as implementation of customer solutions. He has a deep knowledge of the Qlik analytics engine and has had a major influence on the design of the product.

Now in color, this edition of Learning Tableau will empower you to bring data to life and make better business decisions

Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format.

Key Features:

• Learn the basics of data analysis, from snappy visualizations to comprehensive dashboards
• Gain meaningful insights with geospatial analysis, scripting extensions, and other advanced methods
• Explore the latest Tableau 2022 features, including Einstein Discovery and Explain Data

Book Description:

Learning Tableau 2022 helps you get started with Tableau and data visualization, but it does more than just cover the basic principles. It helps you understand how to analyze and communicate data visually, and articulate data stories using advanced features.

This new edition is updated with Tableau's latest features, such as dashboard extensions, Explain Data, and integration with CRM Analytics (Einstein Analytics), which will help you harness the full potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and predictive modeling in Tableau.

After an exploration of the core principles, this book will teach you how to use table and level of detail calculations to extend and alter default visualizations, build interactive dashboards, and master the art of telling stories with data.

You'll learn about visual statistical analytics and create different types of static and animated visualizations and dashboards for rich user experiences. We then move on to interlinking different data sources with Tableau's Data Model capabilities, along with maps and geospatial visualization. You will further use Tableau Prep Builder's ability to efficiently clean and structure data.

By the end of this book, you will be proficient in implementing the powerful features of Tableau 2022 to improve the business intelligence insights you can extract from your data.

What You Will Learn:

• Develop stunning visualizations to explain complex data with clarity
• Build interactive dashboards to drive actionable user insights
• Explore Data Model capabilities and interlink data from various sources
• Create and use calculations to solve problems and enrich your analytics
• Enable smart decision-making with data clustering, distribution, and forecasting
• Extend Tableau's native functionality with extensions, scripts, and AI through CRM Analytics (formerly Einstein Analytics)
• Leverage Tableau Prep Builder's amazing capabilities for data cleaning and structuring
• Share your data stories to build a culture of trust and action

Who this book is for:

This Tableau book is for aspiring BI developers and data analysts, data scientists, researchers, and anyone else who wants to gain a deeper understanding of data through Tableau. This book starts from the ground up, so you won't need any prior experience with Tableau before you dive in, but a full Tableau license (or 14-day demo license) is essential to be able to make use of all the exercises.

The relatively new role of chief data officer (CDO) has been created to address the issue of managing a company's data as a strategic asset, but the problem is that there is no universally accepted playbook for this role. Magnifying the challenge is the rapidly increasing volume and complexity of data, as well as regulatory compliance as it relates to data. In this book, Sunil Soares provides a practical guide for today's chief data officers to manage data as an asset while delivering the trusted data required to power business initiatives, from the tactical to the transformative. The guide describes the relationship between the CDO and the data governance team, whose task is the formulation of policy to optimize, secure, and leverage information as an enterprise asset by aligning the objectives of multiple functions. Soares provides unique insight into the role of the CDO and presents a blueprint for implementing data governance successfully within the context of the position. With practical advice CDOs need, this book helps establish new data governance practices or mature existing practices.

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Hello, future Google Workspace enthusiasts! The Google Workspace Guide is designed to be your companion, simplifying your journey and aiding you in not just exploring, but truly understanding and mastering each tool that Google Workspace offers-with ease and confidence.

What's Inside? Here's a Sneak Peek:

• FAST-TRACK INTRODUCTION: Understanding the essence of Google Workspace, its applications, pricing, and planning strategically for businesses of all scales.
• EFFORTLESS COMMENCEMENT: Step confidently into the Google Workspace realm, from account setup to user management and smooth transitioning from other services.
• MASTERFUL COMMUNICATION: Get your hands on the robust communication tools including Gmail, Google Chat, Hangouts, Google Voice, and their advanced and secure features.
• UNPARALLELED CONTENT & MEDIA MANAGEMENT: Command Google Drive, Google One, Google Vault, and more, with insider knowledge to manage content and media like a pro.
• DOCUMENT & FILE CREATION DEMYSTIFIED: Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms - all simplified and explained, with expert tips on real-time editing, data management, and collaboration.
• SCHEDULING & COLLABORATION: Optimize Google Calendar, Meet, and Jamboard for ultimate scheduling and collaboration efficiency.
• ADVANCED FEATURES UNLOCKED: Dive into Google Workspace Marketplace, APIs, Third-Party Integration, Automation, and Mobile Management.
• ROCK-SOLID SECURITY & COMPLIANCE: Secure your digital space with Google Authenticator, Two-Factor Authentication, and compliance know-how.
• BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE: Tips, tricks, troubleshooting, FAQs, and additional resources for an end-to-end understanding and mastery of Google Workspace.

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Delving into the deeply enigmatic nature of Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable explores the various reasons why the field is so challenging. Written by one of the founders of the field of AI safety, this book addresses some of the most fascinating questions facing humanity, including the nature of intelligence, consciousness, values and knowledge.

Moving from a broad introduction to the core problems, such as the unpredictability of AI outcomes or the difficulty in explaining AI decisions, this book arrives at more complex questions of ownership and control, conducting an in-depth analysis of potential hazards and unintentional consequences. The book then concludes with philosophical and existential considerations, probing into questions of AI personhood, consciousness, and the distinction between human intelligence and artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Bridging the gap between technical intricacies and philosophical musings, AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable appeals to both AI experts and enthusiasts looking for a comprehensive understanding of the field, whilst also being written for a general audience with minimal technical jargon.

Learn how to create your own AI model and consume it in your Power BI reports to gain better insights from your data

Key Features:

• Learn how to gain better insights from your data by applying different AI techniques within Power BI
• Save time by creating machine learning models independently and integrating them within your BI reports
• Understand how to combine Cognitive Services and Azure Machine Learning together with Power BI

Book Description:

The artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in Power BI enable organizations to quickly and easily gain more intelligent insights from unstructured and structured data.

This book will teach you how to make use of the many AI features available today in Power BI to quickly and easily enrich your data and gain better insights into patterns that can be found in your data.

You'll begin by understanding the benefits of AI and how it can be used in Power BI. Next, you'll focus on exploring and preparing your data for building AI projects and then progress to using prominent AI features already available in Power BI, such as forecasting, anomaly detection, and Q&A. Later chapters will show you how to apply text analytics and computer vision within Power BI reports. This will help you create your own Q&A functionality in Power BI, which allows you to ask FAQs from another knowledge base and then integrate it with PowerApps. Toward the concluding chapters, you'll be able to create and deploy AutoML models trained in Azure ML and consume them in Power Query Editor. After your models have been trained, you'll work through principles such as privacy, fairness, and transparency to use AI responsibly.

By the end of this book, you'll have learned when and how to enrich your data with AI using the out-of-the-box AI capabilities in Power BI.

What You Will Learn:

• Apply techniques to mitigate bias and handle outliers in your data
• Prepare time series data for forecasting in Power BI
• Prepare and shape your data for anomaly detection
• Use text analytics in Power Query Editor
• Integrate QnA Maker with PowerApps and create an app
• Train your own models and identify the best one with AutoML
• Integrate an Azure ML workspace with Power BI and use endpoints to generate predictions

Who this book is for:

This artificial intelligence BI book is for data analysts and BI developers who want to explore advanced analytics or artificial intelligence possibilities with their data. Prior knowledge of Power BI will help you get the most out of this book.

And are you looking for a guide that will take away the guesswork from the whole process and even show you cool shortcuts that will save you your valuable time while making sure that you unlock functions you probably didn't even think existed yet are very helpful?

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Let This Book Help You Understand Microsoft Excel Inside Out So You Can Make The Most Of What It Was Meant To Do!

Microsoft Excel is powerful. That's why it is a go-to tool for individuals and organizations around the world - because it supports functions that are useful for individual users and those that can be used for enterprise-level processing. And if you see what anyone with a strong background in Microsoft Excel can do with the program, you will want to learn about it to streamline so many things in your life.

But where do you start?

What functions are most important for beginners?

How do you use the different functions and make the most of them?

If you have these and other related questions, this book is for you so keep reading.

In it, you will discover:

• Why Excel is so important whether for work or work positions
• How to get started with Microsoft Excel, including how to create your first workbook
• Basic functions on MS Excel, including what are cells, how to select cells, how to start formulas, shortcuts and more
• How to make the most of different functions like Ctrl+C and Ctrl+Alt+V, creating columns and rows, selecting, activating and editing cells, formatting cells, how to format, searching workbooks, find, find and replace and more
• How to use the formula function on Excel, including some of the basic functions in Excel like additions, subtraction, multiplication, division and more
• The ins and outs of functions like sorting, grouping, filtering cells and merge cell
• How to make the most of conditional formatting to remove duplicates, and highlight duplicates
• The best way to use Pivot tables and charts in Excel
• And really...much more!

What's more - everything is clearly outlined and detailed to ensure that you unlock all the functions of Windows or Mac!

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If you answer Yes to any of these questions, then continue reading to discover the key to elevating your Google Workspace capabilities.

Many users feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of tools and features, unsure where to begin or how to integrate them seamlessly into their daily workflow. Mismanaging files, losing track of emails, and missing important meetings can be frustrating and detrimental to productivity. Effective communication and collaboration can be challenging when everyone is using different tools or not utilizing them to their full potential. Ensuring your digital workspace is secure and compliant with industry standards is crucial, but often complex and time-consuming.

With over twenty years of experience in the digital workspace, I've created this guide to transform your challenges into opportunities. This book is your lighthouse in the storm of digital file management, ensuring Google Workspace becomes an indispensable tool in your productivity toolkit.

What's Inside? Here's a Sneak Peek:

• FAST-TRACK INTRODUCTION: Grasp Google Workspace essentials.
• EFFORTLESS COMMENCEMENT: Smooth setup and user management.
• MASTERFUL COMMUNICATION: Master Gmail, Chat, Hangouts, and Voice.
• CONTENT MANAGEMENT: Dominate Google Drive and Vault.
• DOCUMENT CREATION: Simplify Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Forms.
• SCHEDULING: Optimize Calendar, Meet, and Jamboard.
• ADVANCED FEATURES: Explore Marketplace, APIs, and automation.
• SECURITY & COMPLIANCE: Secure your digital space.

Are you ready to revolutionize your digital efficiency?

Power BI is an amazing cloud-based business analytics service provided by Microsoft that allows people to transform data into rich, interactive visual reports that presents a 360-degree business view and improves business decision making. This book is designed to get the Excel analyst started with Power BI, touching on Power Query and Power Pivot.

Publisher's note: This edition from 2020 is outdated and does not make use of the most recent Tableau features. A new fifth edition, updated for Tableau 2022, is now available.

Key Features

• Explore the latest Tableau 2020 features and redefine business analytics for your firm
• Understand visualizing data and creating interactive dashboards to gain meaningful insights
• Learn implementing effective data storytelling to redefine how your business leverages data and makes decisions

Book Description

Scaled Scrum and Lean-Agile practices provide essential strategies to address large and complex product development challenges not addressed in traditional Scrum. This Scrum/ Lean-Agile handbook provides a comprehensive review and analysis of industry-proven scaling strategies that enable business agility on an enterprise scale. Free of marketing hype or vendor bias, this book helps you decide which practices best fit your situation.

You'll start with an introduction to Scrum as a lightweight software development framework and then explore common approaches to scaling it for more complex development scenarios. The book will then guide you through systems theory, lean development, and the application of holistic thinking to more complex software and system development activities. Throughout, you'll learn how to support multiple teams working in collaboration to develop large and complex products and explore how to manage cross-team integration, dependency, and synchronization issues. Later, you'll learn how to improve enterprise operational efficiency across value creation and value delivery activities, before discovering how to align product portfolio investments with corporate strategies.

By the end of this Scrum book, you and your product teams will be able to get the most value out of Agile at scale, even in complex cyber-physical system development environments.

What you will learn

• Develop stunning visualizations to explain complex data with clarity
• Explore exciting new Data Model capabilities
• Connect to various data sources to bring all your data together
• Leverage Tableau Prep Builder's amazing capabilities for data cleaning and structuring
• Create and use calculations to solve problems and enrich the analytics
• Master advanced topics such as sets, LOD calculations, and much more
• Enable smart decisions with data clustering, distribution, and forecasting
• Share your data stories to build a culture of trust and action

Who this book is for

Executives, product owners, Scrum masters, development team members, and other stakeholders who need to learn how to scale Agile to support large, complex projects and large enterprise portfolios and programs will find this book useful. A basic understanding of the values and principles of Agile and the Scrum-based framework for Agile development practices is required before you get started with this Agile Scrum book.

Augmented Analytics isn't just another book on data and analytics; it's a holistic resource for reimagining the way your entire organization interacts with information to become insight-driven.

Moving beyond traditional, limited ways of making sense of data, Augmented Analytics provides a dynamic, actionable strategy for improving your organization's analytical capabilities. With this book, you can infuse your workflows with intelligent automation and modern artificial intelligence, empowering more team members to make better decisions.

You'll find more in these pages than just how to add another forecast to your dashboard; you'll discover a complete approach to achieving analytical excellence in your organization.

You'll explore:

• Key elements and building blocks of augmented analytics, including its benefits, potential challenges, and relevance in today's business landscape
• Best practices for preparing and implementing augmented analytics in your organization, including analytics roles, workflows, mindsets, tool sets, and skill sets
• Best practices for data enablement, liberalization, trust, and accessibility
• How to apply a use-case approach to drive business value and use augmented analytics as an enabler, with selected case studies
  
  

  This book provide a clear, actionable path to accelerate your journey to analytical excellence.

Welcome to DAX Essentials: Getting Started with Basic DAX Functions in Power BI.

This book serves as your comprehensive gateway into the world of Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) within Power BI. Whether you're a novice or an intermediate user, this guide will unravel the complexities of DAX and empower you with the skills to leverage its capabilities effectively. DAX is the key to unlocking actionable insights from your data, enabling you to transform raw information into meaningful decisions.

With clear explanations and hands-on examples, you'll learn the foundational DAX functions and gain proficiency in using them to manipulate and analyze data. Through step-by-step instructions and practical scenarios, you'll navigate the realm of DAX with confidence. The book's structured approach, real-world case studies, and hands-on exercises ensure that you not only grasp the concepts but also apply them to real data challenges. Whether you're a business analyst, data enthusiast, or decision-maker, DAX Essentials equips you with a vital skill set that is increasingly crucial in today's data-driven landscape.

Join us on this journey to mastering DAX and unleashing the true potential of your data.

Bring your data to life with this accessible yet fast-paced introduction to Power BI, now in color.

Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format.

Key Features:

- Learn faster with practical examples of the latest features of Power BI, including navigator buttons, column-level security, visualizing goals, and more

- Migrate your existing Excel and data analysis skills to Power BI

- Build accurate analytical models, reports, and dashboards, now in color

Book Description:

Updated with the latest features and improvements in Power BI, this fast-paced yet comprehensive guide will help you master the core concepts of data visualization quickly. You'll learn how to install Power BI, design effective data models, and build basic dashboards and visualizations to help you make better business decisions. This new edition will also help you bridge the gap between MS Excel and Power BI.

Throughout this book, you'll learn how to obtain data from a variety of sources and clean it using the Power Query Editor. You'll also start designing data models to navigate and explore relationships within your data and building DAX formulas to make data easier to work with. Visualizing data is a key element of this book, so there's an emphasis on helping you get to grips with data visualization styles and enhanced digital storytelling.

As you progress, you'll start building your own dataflows, gain an understanding of the Common Data Model, and automate dataflow refreshes to eradicate data cleaning inefficiency. You'll learn how to administer your organization's Power BI environment so that deployment can be made seamless, data refreshes can run properly, and security can be fully implemented.

By the end of this Power BI book, you'll know how to get the most out of Power BI for better business intelligence.

What You Will Learn:

- Connect to data sources using import, DirectQuery, and live connection options

- Use Power Query Editor for data transformation and data cleansing processes, and write M and R scripts and dataflows to do the same in the cloud

- Design effective reports with built-in and custom visuals to optimize user experience

- Implement row-level and column-level security in your dashboards

- Administer a Power BI cloud tenant for your organization

- Use built-in AI capabilities to enhance Power BI data transformation techniques

- Deploy your Power BI Desktop files into Power BI Report Server

Who this book is for:

This book is for aspiring business intelligence and data professionals with a basic understanding of BI concepts, who want to learn Power BI quickly. Complete beginners with no BI background can also get plenty of useful information from this book.

Table of Contents

- Gaining Data Literacy with Power BI

- Connecting to Data

- Data Transformation Strategies

- Building the Data Model

- Leveraging DAX

- Visualizing Data

- Digital Storytelling with Power BI

- Using a Cloud Deployment with the Power BI Service

- Data Cleansing in the Cloud with Dataflows

- On-Premises Solutions with Power BI Report Server

Artificial intelligence (AI) in its various forms -- machine learning, chatbots, robots, agents, etc. -- is increasingly being seen as a core component of enterprise business workflow and information management systems. The current promise and hype around AI are being driven by software vendors, academic research projects, and startups. However, we posit that the greatest promise and potential for AI lies in the enterprise with its applications touching all organizational facets.

With increasing business process and workflow maturity, coupled with recent trends in cloud computing, datafication, IoT, cybersecurity, and advanced analytics, there is an understanding that the challenges of tomorrow cannot be solely addressed by today's people, processes, and products.

There is still considerable mystery, hype, and fear about AI in today's world. A considerable amount of current discourse focuses on a dystopian future that could adversely affect humanity. Such opinions, with understandable fear of the unknown, don't consider the history of human innovation, the current state of business and technology, or the primarily augmentative nature of tomorrow's AI.

This book demystifies AI for the enterprise. It takes readers from the basics (definitions, state-of-the-art, etc.) to a multi-industry journey, and concludes with expert advice on everything an organization must do to succeed. Along the way, we debunk myths, provide practical pointers, and include best practices with applicable vignettes.

AI brings to enterprise the capabilities that promise new ways by which professionals can address both mundane and interesting challenges more efficiently, effectively, and collaboratively (with humans). The opportunity for tomorrow's enterprise is to augment existing teams and resources with the power of AI in order to gain competitive advantage, discover new business models, establish or optimize new revenues, and achieve better customer and user satisfaction.

Learn how to use Power BI to deliver the insights needed to help your enterprise survive and thrive

Key Features

- Learn simple through to advanced Power BI features in a clear, concise way using real-world examples

- Develop powerful analytical models and reports that extract key business insights

- Publish, share and collaborate on impressive reports, dashboards, apps, and goals

Book Description

To succeed in today's transforming business world, organizations need business intelligence capabilities to make smarter decisions faster than ever before. This updated second edition of Learn Power BI takes you on a journey of data exploration and discovery, using Microsoft Power BI to ingest, cleanse, and organize data in order to unlock key business insights that can then be shared with others.

This newly revised and expanded edition of Learn Power BI covers all of the latest features and interface changes and takes you through the fundamentals of business intelligence projects, how to deploy, adopt, and govern Power BI within your organization, and how to leverage your knowledge in the marketplace and broader ecosystem that is Power BI. As you progress, you will learn how to ingest, cleanse, and transform your data into stunning visualizations, reports, and dashboards that speak to business decision-makers.

By the end of this Power BI book, you will be fully prepared to be the data analysis hero of your organization - or even start a new career as a business intelligence professional.

What you will learn

- Get up and running quickly with Power BI

- Understand and plan your business intelligence projects

- Connect to and transform data using Power Query

- Create data models optimized for analysis and reporting

- Perform simple and complex DAX calculations to enhance analysis

- Discover business insights and create professional reports

- Collaborate via Power BI dashboards, apps, goals, and scorecards

- Deploy and govern Power BI, including using deployment pipelines

Who this book is for

If you're an IT manager, data analyst, or BI user new to using Power BI for solving business intelligence problems, this book is for you. You'll also find this book helpful if you want to migrate from other BI tools to create powerful and interactive dashboards. No experience of working with Power BI is expected.

Table of Contents

- Understanding Business Intelligence and Power BI

- Planning Projects with Power BI

- Up and Running with Power BI Desktop

- Connecting to and Transforming Data

- Creating Data Models and Calculations

- Unlocking Insights

- Creating the Final Report

- Publishing and Sharing

- Using Reports in the Power BI Service

- Understanding Dashboards, Apps, Goals, and Security

- Refreshing Content

- Deploying, Governing, and Adopting Power BI

- Putting Your Knowledge to Use

Reinforcement learning (RL) will deliver one of the biggest breakthroughs in AI over the next decade, enabling algorithms to learn from their environment to achieve arbitrary goals. This exciting development avoids constraints found in traditional machine learning (ML) algorithms. This practical book shows data science and AI professionals how to learn by reinforcement and enable a machine to learn by itself.

Author Phil Winder of Winder Research covers everything from basic building blocks to state-of-the-art practices. You'll explore the current state of RL, focus on industrial applications, learn numerous algorithms, and benefit from dedicated chapters on deploying RL solutions to production. This is no cookbook; doesn't shy away from math and expects familiarity with ML.

• Learn what RL is and how the algorithms help solve problems
• Become grounded in RL fundamentals including Markov decision processes, dynamic programming, and temporal difference learning
• Dive deep into a range of value and policy gradient methods
• Apply advanced RL solutions such as meta learning, hierarchical learning, multi-agent, and imitation learning
• Understand cutting-edge deep RL algorithms including Rainbow, PPO, TD3, SAC, and more
• Get practical examples through the accompanying website

Reap the competitive benefits of Zoho, one of the best customer relationship management (CRM) solutions on the market today.

Learn How To:

>Store complete contact information, including name, company, phone numbers, mailing addresses, and e-mail addresses.

>Record dated notes for each of your contacts so that you can easily keep track of meaningful conversations and activities. This feature is handy for those of us who forget things on occasion.

>Keep a calendar that is cross-referenced with the appropriate contact so that you have a complete record of all interactions that you've had-or will have-with a contact.

>Access reports and dashboards so that you can glean insight into your business based on the information in your database.

>Merge your contact information into templates you create for marketing campaigns and other purposes. You can send those merged documents via snail mail, fax, or e-mail.

>Manage your sales pipeline with built-in forecasting tools.

What Is Customer Relationship Management (CRM)?

CRM stands for customer relationship management and typically refers to software, like Zoho, that helps you manage your customer relationships. From a sales perspective, it means things like inputting and tracking leads, checking up on those leads, converting leads to contacts, and ultimately to deals. From a management perspective, you can track the progress of your sales team, create and run reports, and gather insights into your sale cycles and forecasts. Simply stated, the goal of a capable CRM product, such as Zoho, is to run your business efficiently, effectively and to increase profitability.

Mastering Splunk: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners

Transform raw machine data into operational gold with Splunk! This hands-on guide is your ticket to taming the vast amounts of data generated by modern IT environments, unlocking a world of valuable insights to streamline operations, pinpoint security risks, and drive business success.

Key Benefits:

• Dive into Splunk Fundamentals: Explore the core components of the Splunk platform and understand how it empowers your data analysis journey.
• Get Practical: Hands-on exercises and practical chapters reinforce your learning, making even complex concepts easy to grasp.
• Unleash Data's Power: Master data ingestion, search techniques, field extractions, powerful visualizations, and dashboard creation to turn information into actionable insights.
• Achieve Advanced Mastery: Delve into user management, configuration file customization, knowledge objects like lookups, and even push the boundaries of Splunk to solve unique data challenges.

Why This Book

• Designed for Beginners, Ideal for Experienced Users: Start with the basics and progress to truly advanced techniques in a structured way.
• In-Depth, but Accessible: Detailed explanations without sacrificing clarity make this the ideal Splunk reference book for any skill level.
• Go beyond Theory: Real-world scenarios and practical examples demonstrate how Splunk is used to solve common IT, security, and business problems.

Topics Covered

• Splunk architecture and deployment options
• Data indexing and search processing
• Field extractions and transformations
• Reporting and visualizations
• Dashboards and alerts
• Data models
• User management and security
• Configuration files and lookups
• Splunk Apps and add-ons

Upgrade your data analysis skills and unlock the full potential of Splunk. Get your copy of Mastering Splunk today!