Books

# Implementing the CCPA/CPRA # A Comprehensive Guide to California Privacy Compliance This book provides a complete, practical reference for building and maintaining an effective compliance program under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). It covers legal requirements, implementation methodology, technical controls, consumer-rights operations, vendor management, governance, security integration, enforcement preparedness, and ongoing compliance activities. The material is organized to serve both as a learning resource for professionals new to California privacy law and as a detailed implementation reference for experienced practitioners building or refining their programs.

The EU AI Act is changing the rules for anyone building, buying or using AI. This practical guide cuts through the legal complexity and shows what compliance actually requires. With clear explanations, real-world cases, templates and checklists, it gives leaders and teams the tools to turn regulation into workable AI governance.

Evaluating a novel and original approach to a problem involves many types or organizational structures, forecasting and communication styles.

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.

Turn a static class hierarchy into a real semantic graph: object properties, inverse properties, property characteristics, and domain and range, all hands-on in Protege.

Master Ontology Engineering with Protégé and the EKA Framework—Volume 1 of a multi-volume series that teaches ontology engineering hands-on through the Pizza.owl tutorial and connects it to a modern framework for building executable semantic systems.

Build and scale SaaS in Europe with confidence. This practical handbook turns complex EU regulations into clear, actionable guidance, covering GDPR, the AI Act, security, accessibility, VAT, and the legal essentials every SaaS business needs to stay compliant and earn customer trust.

LLMs and agentic AI are currently generating a great deal of hype. When applied correctly, they can deliver tremendous benefits. This book outlines the challenges involved in implementing these technologies within large enterprises—particularly in regulated environments. It serves as an accessible introduction for IT-focused executives and enterprise architects, while also proving useful for IT professionals in general who wish to explore the subject and avoid common project pitfalls.

Software and infrastructure only create value when they pull in the same direction as the business. This book shows IT leaders how to get there: from shaping IT strategy and the architecture roadmap to the daily discipline of IT and architecture governance, all built on a pattern-based approach that adapts to your organization rather than forcing it into a template.Grounded in established frameworks such as TOGAF, COBIT, and ITIL, it pairs solid fundamentals with numerous real-world examples — and gives growing weight to compliance and IT security, now central concerns of any IT management agenda.This English edition is based on the German standard work on the subject, fully revised in its 4th edition (late 2024). It is current with TOGAF 10 and reflects recent developments in business-oriented enterprise architecture — including the open-source tool EDGY and patterns for digital strategy — alongside the latest trends in IT risk management and cybersecurity architecture.

Systems fail in ways that existing frameworks cannot see. Not because the knowledge was absent — because it failed to function. Eleven failure modes. One common grammar. A field guide for practitioners who run complex systems and know something is wrong before they can name it.

Most companies bolt AI onto old workflows. This book shows how to rebuild the company around it: orchestrating AI agents to run real operations, with the governance and cost control to keep them accountable. Written for founders, operators, and leaders who want systems they own, not another subscription.

Ser un Domain-Driven Software Engineer no significa saber patrones complejos de codigo. Se trata de entender el problema del negocio antes de tocar el teclado. Es la diferencia entre ejecutar tareas y aportar soluciones. Es la diferencia entre ser considerado un gato o una inversión.

Most data modelling books teach you the craft. This one teaches you the reality. Seven chapters of honest, practical guidance from real project experience — covering conceptual modelling, governance, enterprise challenges, and the human side of data work that nobody else writes about.

If a humanoid robot carries about $28,000 a year in fixed cost, then at $60 contribution per billable hour it breaks even at roughly 467 billable hours per year, or just under 9 hours per week. But if supervision is heavier and contribution drops to $28 per hour, break-even jumps to 1,000 hours per year, or about 19.2 hours per week.

Stop building dashboards. Start building outcomes. A guide to designing "Invisible Engines" and agentic systems for a world tired of software.