Oracle Is Set to Purchase Hyperion

Oracle Is Set to Purchase Hyperion 
Oracle has agreed to acquire BI and performance management provider Hyperion Solutions for more than $3.3 billion in cash, renewing a shopping spree aimed at extending Oracle’s set of BI products while gunning for rival SAP. When closed, the deal would be the biggest purchase by Oracle since its acquisition of Siebel Systems in January 2006, and the 27th acquisition since the start of 2005. The …

SalesAdvizor for Salesforce.com Aims to Simplify BI 
Business intelligence solutions help enterprises track performance, understand business drivers, and manage an organization’s overall operations. “BI is a large, complex set of technologies, processes and methodologies that address all of the steps necessary to transform raw data into useful, usable, actionable information,” explained Forrester’s Boris Evelson.

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Internet Riches: The Simple Money-making Secrets of Online Millionaires

Internet Riches: The Simple Money-making Secrets of Online Millionaires

$22.00   Book Description: Now anyone can be an online millionaire! These days it’s easier, cheaper, and safer than ever to start an Internet business using readily available technology and turnkey opportunities. In this strategy-packed guide, Scott Fox reveals the powerful but simple methods he and thousands of others have used to strike it rich on the Net. Exclusive interviews with “mom and pop” entrepreneurs prove how easy it is to get started and build a million-dollar enterprise. Readers get: * a guide to e-business opportunities, including “instant e-businesses” that require no start-up capital * strategies for making money from home and turning hobbies into businesses * marketing and product tips * legal and financial advice * a list of recommended vendors * years of expertise and experience in one easy-to-use book Internet Riches also features an action plan for brainstorming new business ideas, and exercises to help readers determine the best moves for their particular situations. Filled with practical pointers and inspiring interviews, it’s the most powerful book ever on starting and enjoying a million-dollar online business!

The Unofficial Guide to Starting a Business Online

$16.99   Book Description: Only a few years into its popular use, the World Wide Web has already enabled thousands to set up online businesses that require a minimum of upkeep and maximum profits. The Unofficial Guide to Starting a Business Online is the cyber-entrepreneur’s ultimate guide to every aspect of hanging out a shingle in the virtual world. Here’s what readers get: Step-by-step advice and key information on setting up shop online, from creating a Web site to marketing and advertising big on a shoestring budget Addresses for hundreds of Web sites they can use as start-up references that would have taken hundreds of hours to track down alone A rundown of the best businesses to start online, and advice for choosing the right one Pointers on combining traditional selling techniques with Web-specific ones for the best of all possible plans!

Look Both Ways: Help Protect Your Family on the Internet

$14.99   Book Description: Learn the 14 ways in which you can help make the Internet a safer place for you and your family. You teach your children to look both ways before crossing the street. You tell them not to talk to strangers. But do you really know how to teach them to safely use the Internet? In this book, Linda Criddle, a leading child safety expert, offers a practical education about what is safe, what is not, and how taking a few precautions can help your children avoid putting themselves at risk. Discover what the risks are today and common ways in which people inadvertently expose themselves and accidentally reveal information. Learn how to be alert, avoid instant messaging and e-mail dangers, blog and play games safely, and avoid harassment and bullying. Look Both Ways is written by Linda Criddle, the child safety product manager for MSN and former investigative reporter, this book provides the practical information you need to protect yourself and your children from dangers on the Web.

Online Bookselling: A Practical Guide with Detailed Explanations and Insightful Tips

No price stated…   Product Description: This book has everything you need to start your own home-based online bookstore and more. It covers: where to buy the books worth reselling, the various available online marketplaces and the advantages/disadvantages of each, how to price and grade your books, how to safely store your books with ease of locating them in mind, how to plan your business, the legal structures of online bookselling businesses, in-state retail sales tax and Schedule C tax issues, how to pack your books to minimize “escapees,” thrid-party wireless lookup service, inventory management software providers, re-pricing tools, online postage services, websites & advertising, shipping methods & trade-offs, how much to pay for books, shipping material suppliers, an exhaustive list of wholesale & remainder book distributors, and much more. The author has included graphs to demonstrate how long you might expect to wait to sell a book with a given Amazon sales rank, histograms of profit distributions you might expect, tables of Roman Numerals, photographs of packing procedures & bookseller terminology, etc. With this book as your guide you are well on your way to being a successful online bookseller. Printed in Times New Roman 9 pt font.

How to Become Wealthy Selling Informational Products on the Internet

$16.95   Book Description: Many people dream of starting a business – but are hesitant to start a business of their own because they don’t know if they’re the right sort of person to be starting a business or are worried that they’ll start a business and fail. Many people want to begin their own informational business, but they have no idea how to begin. What do I do first? How do I start? Will starting my business cost a lot of money? Will I get back what I put in? Is it worth my time and effort? So many questions, where can I find all the answers? My book of course! Are you one of those people wondering if starting a business is right for you? After you finish reading this manual you’ll know if you’re cut out to be an entrepreneur by selling information products and eBooks on the internet and then you can decide if this business is right for you.

Starting an Online Business For Dummies, 4th Edition

$24.99   Book Description: So you want to own your own business, be your own boss, set your own hours, and make real money. If you’re comfortable with computers and have a marketable idea, service, or product, this guide will help you become an ontrepreneur (online entrepreneur). It covers everything you need to know to set up shop in cyberspace. You’ll find out about using established storefronts as a shortcut (sort of like setting up shop in a huge, established cybermall) or building your own Web site from scratch. You’ll explore: Doing research, defining your niche and target market, and putting it together in a practical business plan Getting the hardware and software you’ll need to get going Creating your own Web site with good organization, useful content, and eye-catching design, including ten must-have features and info on clip art and photos Selecting a Web hosting service (with info on free Web site homesteading) Setting up for handling business online, including building in security, accepting charge cards, creating shopping carts, and more Managing your goods and services, including sourcing goods, handling returns, adding shipping fees, and maintaining inventory Taking advantage of successful online business models, including storefronts such as Amazon.com, Yahoo!, CafePress, PayPal, or Microsoft that already have all the tools and systems, plus great traffic   Running a business on eBay Marketing your business and the secrets to search engine success Keeping good business records and staying on the right side of the law, including everything from trademarks , copyrights, and licensing to taxes, with info on accounting tools and software Written by e-biz whiz Greg Holden, Starting an Online Business For Dummies, Fourth Edition has all kinds of case studies of successful cyber businesses, including a woman who sells her own insect repellent, a mapmaker, a housewife who sells sweetener and coffee on eBay, a sculptor and painter, and more. Packed with inspiration and information, it includes: Lots of Web sites that will give you good ideas A companion Web site that includes an online directory of Internet business resources A list of legal and business requirements Get going, and build a booming business right at home. The only people you’ll have to take orders from are customers, and those are the kind of orders you’ll like!

Quick Course in Microsoft Windows Nt 4 Workstation (Quick Course)

$16.99   Book Description: New Lower Price! Fast-paced and to the point, Quick Course(r) books are designed for the beginning to intermediate computer user that focus on training rather than features. Quickly discover how to customize Windows NT Workstation 4.0 and create shortcuts for greater efficiency. Easily learn and understand networking and security concepts. And track down files and organize them for easy retrieval, including information from corporate intranets and the Internet. Applauded by trainers in business, education, and the government, Quick Course(r) books are the fast, efficient, and affordable way for people in a hurry to keep pace with today’s ever-changing software programs. QUICK COURSE(r) IN MICROSOFT WINDOWS NT 4.0 topics include: Desktop customization, including creating shortcuts for greater efficiency Files tracking and organize for easy retrieval Working with programs, multitasking, and recycling information between programs Networking and security concepts explained in easy-to-understand language Intranet and Internet electronic mail, and Web searches

Sales and Marketing the Six Sigma Way

$27.00   Book Description: Quality management. Process mapping. Speed to production. In the past 50 years, a rigorous, measurement-based methodology called Six Sigma has brought production management to previously unimaginable levels of success and sophistication. Top corporations such as Motorola and GE have built their reputations, products, and revenues using this approach. Indeed, Six Sigma has found widespread application in every significant industry and business—except marketing and sales. In Sales and Marketing the Six Sigma Way, sales and quality guru Michael Webb shows how to blend marketing and sales efforts with the cutting-edge methods of Six Sigma to boost their bottom lines. With Webb’s book as a guide, readers learn to engineer rapid routes to customer value, accurately predict future revenue, and ensure return on investment for their projects. In Sales and Marketing the Six Sigma Way, you will: * Find out why “the usual fixes” for sales problems don’t work * Meet executives who have used Six Sigma to imrpove marketing and sales results * See the pitfalls that await the unwary when applying process improvement in sales * Learn how to introduce Six Sigma to sales and marketing professionals * Discover through examples and cases how to manage sales as a process Webb walks readers through several Six Sigma sales and marketing projects from start to finish, highlighting the tools, decisions, and results that made them successful. He shows the practical methods managers use to translate process improvement principles to the human world of selling and marketing. With his dual background in sales and marketing management and in quality improvement, Webb speaks clearly to readers in both disciplines. This makes Sales and Marketing the Six Sigma Way the indispensible guide for sales and marketing professionals who want to excel in today’s business environment, and for quality improvement experts who want to help them.

Internet and World Wide Web Simplified, 3rd Edition

$27.99   Amazon.com: Learning about the Net doesn’t get any easier than in this addition to the 3-D Visual Series from IDG. With its full-color illustrations and extremely brief text, Internet and World Wide Web Simplified is perfect for beginners. It starts with an introduction to the Internet, which explains what the Net has to offer, who pays for it, how it got started, and how you can get connected. The book then moves on to discuss the World Wide Web, browsers, plug-ins, security issues, Java, ActiveX, and VRML in simple terms. Other topics include e-mail, mailing lists, newsgroups, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and multiplayer games. Internet and World Wide Web Simplified includes a good beginner’s directory to Web sites covering such subjects as where to find shareware programs, where to shop online, where to get information on a variety of topics, and more. The graphics are cute but never cross over the line to silly. If you know someone who has tried unsuccessfully to learn about the Net from other books, hand them this.