{"product_id":"creating-smart-enterprises-vivek-kale-9781498751285","title":"Creating Smart Enterprises: Leveraging Cloud, Big Data, Web, Social Media, Mobile and Iot Technologies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Vivek Kale's Creating Smart Enterprises goes smack-dab at the heart of harnessing technology for competing in today's chaotic digital era. Actually, for him, it's SMACT-dab: SMACT (Social media, Mobile, Analytics and big data, Cloud computing, and internet of Things) technologies. This book is required reading for those that want to stay relevant and win, and optional for those that don't.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Peter Fingar, Author of \u003ci\u003eCognitive Computing\u003c\/i\u003e and business technology consultant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCreating Smart Enterprises unravels the mystery of social media, mobile, analytics and big data, cloud, and Internet of Things (SMACT) computing and explains how it can transform the operating context of business enterprises. It provides a clear understanding of what SMACT really means, what it can do for smart enterprises, and application areas where it is practical to use them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll IT professionals who are involved with any aspect of a SMACT computing project will profit by using this book as a roadmap to make a more meaningful contribution to the success of their computing initiatives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis pragmatic book: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIntroduces the VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) business ecosystem confronted by the businesses today. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDescribes the challenges of defining business and IT strategies and of aligning them as well as their impact on enterprise governance.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a very wide treatment of the various components of SMACT computing, including the Internet of Things (IoT) and its constituting technologies like RFID, wireless networks, sensors, and wireless sensor networks (WSNs). \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book addresses the key differentiator of SMACT computing environments and solutions that combine the power of an elastic infrastructure with analytics. The SMACT environment is cloud-based and inherently mobile. Information management processes can analyze and discern recurring patterns in colossal pools of operational and transactional data. Analytics, big data, and IoT computing leverage and transform these data patterns to help create successful, smart enterprises. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vivek Kale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1498751288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781498751285\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Auerbach Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/26\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 380\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.00d","brand":"Vivek Kale","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088444633343,"sku":"9781498751285","price":160.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4cb32fa7-6f37-4d51-91f9-cf9b385d2596.jpg?v=1769104864","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/creating-smart-enterprises-vivek-kale-9781498751285","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}