SAP HANA - AN INTRODUCTION

Bjarne Berg and Penny Silvia simplify SAP HANA and how it works. Readers will explore practical, step-by-step instructions for working in the HANA Studio and Information Composer, learning the basics of implementation, administration, and data population. This book is simplifi ed for readers to understand what SAP HANA is and what it can do for them: not in 10 years, but right now.

Published by: SAP Press

WHO OWNS THE FUTURE?

Jaron Lanier asserts that the rise of digital networks led the economy into recession and decimated the middle class. Who Owns the Future? is a visionary reckoning with the effects network technologies have had on the economy. Lanier charts the path towards a new information economy that will stabilise the middle-class and allow it to grow.

Published by: Simon & Schuster

CLOUD COMPUTING

Nick Antonopoulos and Lee Gillam say cloud computing continues to emerge as a subject of substantial industrial and academic interest. They note that although the meaning and scope of cloud computing continues to be debated, the current notion of cloud blurs the distinctions between grid services, Web services, and data centres, among other areas.

Published by: Springer London

THE SOCIAL DESIGN OF TECHNICAL SYSTEMS – BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES FOR COMMUNITIES

Hundreds of millions of people use socio-technical systems every day, says author Brian Whitworth, like e-mail, Wikipedia, eBay, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. But how do they work? And more importantly, can we build them better? This book teaches readers how to build technologies for communities – a social system operating on a technical base.

Published by: Interaction Design Foundation