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The Tech Contracts Pocket Guide: Software and Services Agreements for Salespeople, Contract Managers, Business Developers, and Lawyers
David W Tollen
$9.95

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Negotiate and Write Software Licenses, Computer Services Agreements, and Much More

The Tech Contracts Pocket Guide is a friendly reference manual and how-to guide. It’s for anyone whose business buys or sells software or information technology services. Written for both businesspeople and lawyers, it uses simple English, like a good contract.

Here you will find:

• Explanations of each clause.
• Sample contract language.
• Tips on negotiation.
• A full length form contract (available for download).
• Ideas for avoiding disputes.
• Simple lessons on copyright licenses, warranties, indemnities, service level agreements, nondisclosure agreements, technical specifications, limitations of liability, technology escrows, software audits, and much more.

“David Tollen’s pithy guide both trains new hires and gives everyone a simple reference for IT contracts. Highly recommended.”
—David Hayden, founder of Critical Path, Archipelago LLC, and Jeteye Technologies, and cofounder of Magellan Search

“David Tollen has prepared a licensing road map that’s full of practical, concise information—that is, clear directions. Written in an engaging, accessible style, it’s the perfect tool for both nonlawyers and lawyers learning to navigate the licensing maze.”
—Lawrence G. Townsend, IP attorney and author of The Wholly Grill, A Novel about Cravings, Barbeque, and Software

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Application Service Provider and Software as a Service Agreements Line by Line: A Detailed Look at ASP and Saas Agreements and How to Change Them to Meet Your Needs
Thomas J. Hall
$83.82

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Written by two seasoned practitioners nationally known for their work across the breadth of information technology issues, Application Service Provider and Software as a Service Agreements Line by Line arguably provides the most up-to-date coverage of the current trends in this rapidly expanding area. Offering in-depth explanations of concepts, practical advice on negotiations, and suggestions for best practices, this book covers topics such as required scope of the license grant, definition of end-users, audit rights, escrow/release rights, service level requirements, and business continuity issues, as well as payment and dispute resolution issues for business critical applications contracted to third party vendors. This book also provides readers with crucial information surrounding issues that commonly effect integration of third party provider services within the workflow of the organization, such as implementation requirements, training/knowledge transfer, confidentiality/security of corporate information, compliance with corporate polices, and metrics for user satisfaction. Furthermore, by applying business-centric concepts to the negotiation process, the authors provide a systematic approach to effective risk allocation for both providers and users of ASP and SaaS, as well as alternative positions to resolve negotiation "log jams." Application Service Provider and Software as a Service Agreements Line by Line is a comprehensive and integrated book on this evolving and critical area of business process outsourcing and is truly an indispensable resource for both practitioners and would-be practitioners alike.

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IT, Software and Services: Outsourcing and Offshoring
Robin Sood
$41.50

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IT, Software and Services: Outsourcing and Offshoring provides an essential overview of the burgeoning phenomenon of outsourcing. Although some pundits have been critical of the outsourcing trend, author Robin Sood argues that it is simply a fact of the contemporary global marketplace--one that can only be ignored at your own peril. Sood covers the reasons for outsourcing and provides strategies for doing it right. Many companies do not do it right, and the result is a lot of wasted time and money. The information contained in this book can literally save your company millions of dollars.

By reading this book, you will be able to develop your own strategic plan, by learning:
* The main advantages of outsourcing
* What work can be outsourced effectively
* Why outsourcing sometimes fails--and how you can avoid such failure
* Which are the most desirable offshore locations and why
* What criteria to use for selecting the vendor that is right for you

IT, Software and Services: Outsourcing and Offshoring is essential reading for business leaders in the 21st century who want to "keep up with the Joneses." If you are contemplating outsourcing, already involved in it, or merely want to remain competitive in today's fast-moving and ever-changing marketplace, you cannot afford not to read this book.

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Enterprise Services Architecture (O'Reilly Field Guide to Enterprise Software)
Dan Woods
$1.79

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Enterprise Services Architecture outlines a disciplined and structured approach to understanding how today's enterprise applications will make use of web services. This book, aimed at senior management and IT professionals, presents a forward-looking architecture that can meet future development challenges with ease and agility. "Enterprise Services Architecture, as described in this book, is an application of service-oriented architecture and sound principles of object-oriented design applied to the current heterogeneous world of IT architecture. Enterprise services are the high-level components that aggregate web services into reusable elements. The new world of Enterprise Services Architecture will change the way all vendors build applications and the way companies use them. Monolithic applications will be broken apart into layers and offered as components. The reduced cost of integration and flexibility will make design, modeling, and architecture vital commodities as companies craft the optimal structure out of these components. The benefit should be the ability to optimize the business without a bottleneck in the IT infrastructure, which is too often the case. The ultimate goal of this book is to help our customers and the marketplace at large come to grips with the architectural revolution that is underway."--Hasso Plattner, Chairman, SAP AG Supervisory Board This book was commissioned by SAP and will be used by SAP to promote their products. We're making it available through our retailers because we believe the information in it is of interest to readers outside of SAP's immediate sphere.

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Growing Modular: Mass Customization of Complex Products, Services and Software
Charles Carson
$49.28

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This book is about a practical approach to the Mass Customization of complex products, services and software, namely "Configure-to-Order", the definition of modular product packages and their configuration on demand, to fit customer-specific needs. "Configure-to-Order" concepts apply equally well to configuring complex products, services, and software, and are relevant in industries ranging across manufacturing, public services, and financial services.

The target audience is those interested in management or process improvement in areas such as customer service, sales, marketing, exports, new product development, or production. Software to support "Configure-to-Order" is discussed and a generic configurator evaluation checklist is provided. The objective is to provide the reader with a manageable approach to modularization and mass customization, the benefits of this approach, and the shift necessary to get there.

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Networked RFID: Systems, Software and Services (Computer Communications and Networks)
George Roussos
$51.96

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RFID technology has been available for decades, but it is only recently that its application has become a core topic for computing. This book introduces the technologies and techniques of large-scale RFID-enabled mobile computing systems, set in the context of specific case studies.

The book begins with a quick introduction to RFID basics and then discusses the various elements of the topic, using applications such as e-passports, ticketing and supply-chain management throughout. The text explores RFID technology fundamentals, including operating principles, core system components and performance trade-offs involved in the selection of specific RFID platforms. The emphasis is on a practical approach, developing an arsenal of techniques and designs that can be mixed and matched to fit the needs of new systems and applications.

Features

• Offers a practical approach, with specific RFID applications providing context for discussion

• Highlights the basics of RFID, including wireless energy transfer and communication by reflection.

• Presents the main ingredients for building complete network RFID systems

• Discusses the different types of readers and tags in detail – making particular reference to common technologies used in real systems

• Explores how the different identifier systems encode unique serial codes for tagged entities, and how codes are assigned to particular organizations

• Describes the structure and functionality of modern RFID systems and middleware

• Considers different types of network services required for RFID support

• Debates the hot topics of privacy and security

• Looks at the future of RFID technology

• Allows readers to experiment via a supplementary website with operational instances of RFID network services: http://www.roussos.eu/rfid

Written for IT professionals as well as students, this comprehensive and reader-friendly text discusses the current state-of-the-art in RFID platforms and architecture. It will be invaluable for anyone experienced in software development and involved with RFID technology, and will facilitate informed decision-making.

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Emerging Web Services Technology (Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing)
$43.27

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This book contains initial results of innovative and sometimes controversial emerging Web services research ideas. It covers a wide spectrum of active research areas like Model Driven Engineering for SOA, Mobility and Services, Dynamic Web Service Discovery and Composition, Service Management, and Semantic Web, just to name a few.

As Web services technology is becoming widely established in enterprise computing applications, Web service research is a very important and still very productive research domain. This book gives a timely report on the leading edge of this work by collecting selected and revised papers originally presented at the Workshop on Emerging Web Service Technology (WEWST) held in conjunction with the 4th European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS'06) last December 2006 in Zurich, Switzerland.

Acting as the natural extension to the main ECOWS conference, the main goal of the WEWST workshop is serving as a forum for providing early exposure and much needed feedback to grow and establish original and emerging research ideas within the Web Services community. The wide variety of tools, techniques and technological solutions presented in WEWST share one common feature: they advance the current Web Services research in new directions by introducing new and sometimes controversial ideas into the field.

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Software Measurement: Establish - Extract - Evaluate - Execute
Reiner Dumke
$52.95

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Our world and our society are shaped and increasingly governed by software. Since software is so ubiquitous and embedded in nearly everything we are doing, we need to stay in control. We have to make sure that the systems and their software are running as we intend - or better. Software measurement is the discipline that assures that we stay in control.

In this volume, Ebert and Dumke provide a comprehensive introduction to software measurement. They detail knowledge and experiences about software measurement in an easily understood, hands-on presentation. Brief references are embedded from world-renown experts such as Alain Abran, Luigi Buglione, Manfred Bundschuh, David N. Card, Ton Dekkers, Robert L. Glass, David A. Gustafson, Marek Leszak, Peter Liggesmeyer, Andreas Schmietendorf, Harry Sneed, Charles Symons, Ruediger Zarnekow and Horst Zuse. Many examples and case studies are provided from Global 100 companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, Atos Origin, Axa, Bosch, Deloitte, Deutsche Telekom, Shell, Siemens and Vector Consulting.

This combination of methodologies and applications makes the book ideally suited for both professionals in the software industry and for scientists looking for benchmarks and experiences. Besides the many practical hints and checklists readers will also appreciate the large reference list, which includes links to metrics communities where project experiences are shared. Further information, continuously updated, can also be found on the Web site related to this book: http://metrics.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/.

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Model-Driven Development of Reliable Automotive Services: Second Automotive Software Workshop, ASWSD 2006, San Diego, CA, USA, March 15-17, 2006, Revised ... Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
$56.30

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Second Automotive Software Workshop, ASWSD 2006, held in San Diego, CA, USA in March 2006.

The 11 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 lectures held at the workshop, that brought together experts from industry and academia, working on highly complex, distributed, reactive software systems related to the automotive domain. The papers are organized in topical sections on modeling techniques and infrastructures, model transformations, quality assurance, real-time control, as well as services and components.

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Microsoft Office 2007 SharePoint Server - Collaboration Features - Quick Reference Card - Office Collaboration Quick Start Cards: Computer Shortcuts, Cheats, Tips & Tricks Guides. 6 Pages Ea, Tri-Fold. Easy Storage-Windows Share Point Services-WSS (Software Quick Reference Cards)
$4.95

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Quick Start Card for Microsoft SharePoint 2007, Collaboration Six tri-folded pages of easy-to-understand instructions for the collaboration features in SharePoint 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS). --- Able to reduce help desk calls while giving users tangible training, BrainStorm's Quick Start Card for the collboration features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007 and for Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) is a ready reference SharePoint users and designers should never go without. --- From coordinating tasks to creating sites and workspaces, BrainStorm's Quick Start Card for the collaboration features of Microsoft SharePoint 2007 gives both MOSS SharePoint users and WSS SharePoint users a tangible training reference card that teaches novice to advanced end users how to perform the following SharePoint functions, plus many more. --- Coordinating Tasks --- Setting Up Announcement Alerts --- Using Discussion Boards --- Adding Project Tasks --- Connecting Calendars and Tasks with Outlook --- Creating a WikiPage Library --- Creating Sites and Workspaces --- BrainStorm's durable tri-fold cards are coated to protect against spills, fading, and running. These cards are perfect to hang in a cubicle for all-day reference or to take in a laptop bag. The full-color step-by-step illustrated instructions on each of the 6 full pages of content can also take the stress out of learning a new technological paradigm, like Microsoft SharePoint.