Business and IT Alignment

Doing Cloud is easy. Doing it right is hard. The difficulty appears to be a problem of choice, but behind every Cloud success or failure story, there's always just one reason - cost. This book offers a framework, rooted in understanding Cloud's nature, for applying that understanding to the many shapes cost takes.

Developer platforms promise to rewrite the laws of IT physics: they boost innovation through standards; they speed up development while assuring compliance; and they reduce cognitive load without restricting choice. Building such an in-house platform, or even deploying one, is far from easy, though. This book condenses a decade of building and rolling out platforms into practical advice for platform teams and users.5300+ happy readers! Also as Paperback edition

A companion book for implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Targeted end-users, super-users and administrators, this book covers many of the challenges you're faced when implementing a cloud-based ERP system. From setting up the system and creating the first company to user customizations and integration. Updated to 2026 Wave 1 v28.

You want to analyse, understand and capture the subject matter of a domain, typically because you want to build a software system in that domain? You're looking for abstractions to describe and ultimately execute said subject matter? Then this book is for you: it's chock-full of experience and practices for tackling this challenge.

Turn "our Shopware store feels slow" into a measurable 30-day plan: one fix a day, each with a before/after metric. Field-tested engineering on caching, Elasticsearch, Redis and CDN — not generic tips.

Visual Collaboration Tools is a book for teams building software. It describes tools that help us in our daily job, and also present field stories from different practitioners.

Building an impressive AI agent demo is easy. Running one in production—reliably, at scale, with governance—is where most enterprises get stuck. Agentic Orchestration shows how BPMN-based process orchestration governs AI agents at scale, drawing on real deployments across banking, telecom, and healthcare. Reasoning without orchestration is expensive chaos. This book shows the way out.

AI is becoming part of everyday professional work. This practical, non-technical handbook will show you how to use it effectively to save time, improve the quality of your work, make better-informed decisions, and get more done. Learn what AI does well, where human judgement matters, and how to work confidently with AI in the real world.

Forecast better when predicting the unpredictable with the 5 methods. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

Example chapter available on ThinkingEA.com - A Very Common Tragedy (Chapter 17)

A practical, candid field guide to getting ERP right the first time, from the business case to years of running the system, drawn from real programs.

The Green Check is essential reading for sysadmins, IT managers, CISOs, and business leaders who want to be sure their parachute will actually open when they jump.

Patching vulnerabilities is only part of the job. Beyond the Patch explores how software weaknesses arise, how attackers find and exploit them and what it takes to stop them before they become real threats. From code-level analysis to practical defense strategies, this book offers the knowledge and tools to build more secure software and stay ahead of evolving attacks.

AI能找到联系人、整理需求、起草回复，为什么经营者仍然很忙，企业也未必赚得更多？

Your agent just read a file you didn't think mattered, followed an instruction hidden in a web page, and pushed a commit. None of it looked suspicious. That's the shape of agentic security — and *The Agentic Security Playbook* is how you close the gap before someone else finds it.