Last year we published Intelligent Mentoring as part of our portfolio in the business strategy portfilio of IBM Press.  Many of the book author’s decided to puruse another book and wala – hot off the press is, Agile Career Development: Lessons and Approaches from IBM.

Here’s what an early reviewer had to say:

“This book highlights tried and true best practices developed at a company known the world over for active dedication to their workforce. Mary Ann, Diana, and Sheila have captured the key issues that will enhance and streamline your career development program and, subsequently, increase employee engagement, retention, and productivity. I particularly like their practical, real-life understanding of the barriers to most career development programs and the manageable framework to bring career growth to life. They also teach us how to make a business case for career development–critical in creating the foundation for a sustainable program. This includes a good blend of benefits both for the individual employee and the organization as a whole. I only wish I had this book available to me years ago when I was managing a career development program!”

Jim Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., author of Implementing the Four Levels of Transferring Learning to Behavior

 

 

 

It’s been pretty busy here at IBM Press Books.  July, August and September have turned out to be very busy with a ton of books going on or coming off the press.  Understanding IBM SOA Foundation Suite just published and is filled with 26 tutorials.  Here’s what is covers:

Coverage includes

 

  • Designing services with UML, sharing designs via HTML files, and transforming designs to and from Java with IBM Rational Software Architect
  • Creating services with IBM Rational Application Developer, and deploying them with IBM WebSphere Application Server
  • Implementing effective service governance with IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
  • Integrating existing services into new business processes with IBM WebSphere
  • Integration Developer and IBM WebSphere Process Server
  • Connecting services with IBM WebSphere Message Broker
  • Developing, testing, deploying, and managing portlets with IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory and IBM WebSphere Portal
  • Systematically securing services with IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager

 

Amazon has it at 20% off.

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It’s sure been busy at IBM Press Books…what a summer for book publishing.  Seems like every week there is a new book coming off the press.  Here’s the latest!

  DB2 pureXML Cookbook: Master the Power of the IBM Hybrid Data Server

Here’s what you will learn:

The topics are organized by typical user tasks throughout the life cycle of XML database projects, from planning, designing, and implementing databases all the way to tuning, problem determination, and application development. It includes code samples for Java, .NET, COBOL, PL/1, C, PHP, and Perl programmers. The DB2 pureXML Cookbookprovides proven recipes rather than a mere reference of ingredients.

  • Unique and comprehensive coverage of pureXML on all supported platforms: DB2 9.x for Linux, UNIX, and Windows and DB2 9 for z/OS.
  • Written for database administrators and application developers, beginners and advanced DB2 users.
  • More than 700 “recipe-style” examples of XML queries, updates, schemas, indexes, storage objects, application code, and database maintenance tasks.
  • DB2 pureXML best practices, tips, and tricks based on the author’s extensive hands-on experience in pureXML deployments.
  • Coverage of brand-new XML features that IBM intends to make available in the next release of DB2 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The authors of the IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA  Appliance Handbook are all things DataPower.  They are smart as heck and just recently recorded a series of podcasts.  Check em out.

3 separate podcasts:

What is DataPower?

Advanced DataPower Use Cases

Common DataPower Use Cases

http://www.informit.com/podcasts/channel.aspx?c=5df34b2c-c83c-4430-af38-8ace6edf9a1b

Dynamic SOA and BPM: Best Practices for Business Process Management and SOA Agility

It’s been raining here so much in New England, and we haven’t had one hot day…..but things are really heating up at IBM Press Books.  It seems like every week a new book is rolling off the presses – SOA, DB2, Data Quality, Social Networking and more.  Here’s the latest that just hit the warehouse.

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Dynamic SOA and BPM: Best Practices for Business Process Management and SOA Agility by Marc Fiammante

Thousands of enterprises have adopted Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based on its promise to help them respond more rapidly to changing business requirements by composing new solutions from existing business services. To deliver on this promise, however, companies need to integrate solid but flexible Business Process Management (BPM) plans into their SOA initiatives. Dynamic SOA and BPM offers a pragmatic, efficient approach for doing so.

Top IBM SOA architect Marc Fiammante takes you step-by-step through combining BPM and SOA, and using them together to build a more flexible, dynamic enterprise. Throughout the book, he emphasizes hands-on solutions based on his experience supporting dozens of enterprise SOA implementations.

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I just saw that Amazon dropped it’s Kindle 2 to $299.00.  ebooks are gaining in popularity and I was reading that a group is proposing to put a Kindle in every child’s backpack!  At IBM Press Books, most of our books are also available in the Kindle format.  But what alot of folks don’t realize is that the PDF is also for sale on the publisher’s site.  They are cheaper and save trees!  Just look for the green arrow to identify the ebook on the publisher’s site below.

Check em out.  (ps become a site member for free and save 30%!)

WebSphere books

Information Management

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SOA

viral data in soa

 

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Viral Data in SOA: An Enterprise Pandemic by Neal Fishman

Leading IBM information forensics expert Neal Fishman helps you identify the unique challenges of data quality in your SOA environment–and implement solutions that deliver the best results for the long term at the lowest cost. Writing for both business and technical professionals, Fishman shows how to think about data quality on a risk/reward basis…establishing an effective data governance initiative…how to evaluate data quality, and overcome its inevitable decay…and, last but not least, how to actually derive a data quality initiative that works.

 

Coverage Includes

 

• Why poor-quality data in SOA can be dangerous to an organization

• Practical solutions for assessing, improving, and sustaining trusted information

• Why data governance is so critical–and realistic models for implementing it

• Benefits of data provenance

• Why business data is a form of metadata

• Programming and database design techniques to improve data quality

 

I just finished reading the Green IT Report from Semantic.  It was just released in May of 2009. 

The key findings of the 2009 Worldwide Green IT Report are:

1. Green IT is now an “essential”

2. Green IT budgets are rising

3. IT is willing to pay a premium for green equipment

4. IT is at the heart of enterprise green efforts

5. Green IT initiatives are more of a priority

There’s lot of good stuff in this report. 

John Lamb’s, The Greening of IT,  is such a timely piece of work.  I particulary liked how Thomas Duff was right on the money in his review of the book.  He talks about the need to understand the Greening of IT as a way to gain new work or be part of the intitiatives taking place at your organization. 

“Having your Operations Center management or senior IT leadership read this book could mean the savings of millions of dollars every year (that should keep a few more jobs around). And if you care to study up on this yourself, you might find that you’ve been given the opportunity to be part of a project that will have an ROI measured in months rather than years. And for you consultants out there, you might want to consider this niche area that isn’t well covered for smaller businesses…

Even if you’re a head-down coder, reading The Greening of IT will open your eyes to changes that either are occurring or need to occur on a daily basis wherever you work.”

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