Thursday, December 18, 2008

Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse or Iron Cages

Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse: Leveraging the Business Intelligence Capabilities of SAP NetWeaver

Author: Andreas Wilmsmeier

"This book is the definitive guide for SAP NetWeaver BI professionals. Based on their extraordinary expertise with the product, the authors provide deep insights about key innovations in the areas of user experience, query performance, integrated planning, and enterprise-wide data warehousing."
—Stefan Sigg, Vice President, SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence

The long-anticipated publication of this second edition reflects the growing success of SAP NetWeaver as well as the various Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities that are embedded with SAP BW version 7.0. Written by SAP insiders, this comprehensive guide takes into account the ever-changing features, functionality, and toolsets of SAP NetWeaver to bring you the most updated information on how to use SAP BW to design, build, deploy, populate, access, analyze, present, and administer data. You'll discover the options that are available in SAP NetWeaver and uncover a new means to improve business performance.

This book reflects the process an organization goes through during an implementation of the software. The authors begin with an introduction to BI and SAP NetWeaver and quickly progress to information modeling and enterprise data warehouse concepts. You'll learn how to access and deliver meaningful analytic information to the organization, as well as perform integrated planning functions. Finally, the authors share invaluable insight on warehouse administration, performance, and security.

With more than 50 percent new or revised material, this second edition of Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse shows you how to:



• Extract data from onlinetransaction processing systems

• Store transformed data in a way that best supports reporting and analysis

• Use the various Business Explorer tools such as BEx Report Designer, BEx Analyzer, BEx Broadcaster, and BEx Web Application Designer

• Schedule, monitor, troubleshoot, and archive data loads



The companion Web site contains sample chapters in Wiki format and the authors' blog where readers may enter discussions about the book and SAP.

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The companion Web site contains the sample code presented in the text of the book, plus implementation templates.



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Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century America

Author: Ronald T Takaki

Now in a new edition, Iron Cages provides a unique comparative analysis of white American attitudes toward Asians, blacks, Mexicans, and Native Americans in the 19th century. This pathbreaking work offers a cohesive study of the foundations of race and culture in America. In a new epilogue, Takaki argues that the social health of the United States rests largely on the ability of Americans of all races and cultures to build on an established and positive legacy of cross-cultural cooperation and understanding in the coming 21st century. Observing that by 2050 all Americans will be minorities, Takaki urges us to ask ourselves: Will America fulfill the promise of equality or will America retreat into its "iron cages" and resist diversity, allowing racial conflicts to divide and possibly even destroy America as a nation? Incisive and provocative, Iron Cages is an essential resource for students of ethnic history and important reading for anyone interested in the history of race relations in America.



Table of Contents:

One -- Republicanism

I. The "Iron Cage" in the New Nation

The Birth of a Virtuous People

Race and Republican Society

II. "Diseases" of the Mind and Sun

"Republican Machines"

The "Lovely White"

III. Within the "Bowels" of the Republic

Head Over Heart

Black Colonization

Red Lockeans

Two -- Enterprise

IV. Beyond Primitive Accumulation

Democracy in America:

The Inner World of the Bourgeoisie

The Market Revolution and Race

V. The Metaphysics of Civilization: "The Red Race on Our Borders"

An Age of Confidence

Jibbenainosay: Indian-Hatin in Fantasy

Jackson: Metaphysician of Indian-Hating

VI. The Metaphysics of Civilization: "The Black Race Within Our Bosom"

The Black Child/Savage: A Jacksonian Persuasion

"Warranteeism": A Vision of a "Marx of the Master Class"

Aesculapius Was a White Man: Race and the Cult of True Womanhood

Three -- Technology

VII. An American Prospero in King Arthur's Court

The New Body

White Technology: Anglo Over Mexican

The Triumph of Mind in Ameica

VIII. The Iron Horse in the West

"Red Gifts" and "White Gifts": The World Custer Lost

The Scientific Management of Indians

IX. Civilization in the "New South"

Machines and Magnolias" Black Labor in an Industrial Order

The "Negro Question": "Higher Life" in the South

X. The "Heathen Chinee" and American Technology

Ah Sin in America

A Yellow Proletariat: Caste and Class in IndustrialAmerica

A Vision of Catastrophe: Henry George and the American Tower of Babel

Four -- Empire

XI. The Masculine Thrust Toward Asia

The "Iron Cage" in a Corporate Civilization

The New Empire: American Asceticism and the "New Navy"

XII. Down from the Gardens of Asia

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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