Guides, Tutorials, and Support Documents

This system contains many online guides, short tutorials, and support documents to educate you on different aspects of modern IT systems.

Overview: The Overview document gives an overview of the system and is highly recommended for a conceptual understanding of the system. 

Online Guides:

Business Portal: Designed specifically for small to medium businesses (SMBs), this portal leads you to numerous sources of information for starting a business, developing a marketing plan, obtaining finance, and information technologies.

Outsourcing Guide: This leads you through various choices and issues in making the outsourcing decisions, selecting the outsourcing vendors, and issuing the RFPs/RFQs.

Short Tutorials

• PISA Methodology
• Architectures and Integration
• What are Patterns
• Enterprise Application Integration
• B2B Integration

Support Materials

Although not required, the following books provide the necessary technical background (if needed):

• Umar, A., "e-Business and Distributed Systems Handbook”, Published in Eight Modules, NGE Solutions, May 2003, revised August 2004.
• Umar, A., Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications”, NGE Solutions, July 2004.
• Umar, A., "Information Security and Auditing in the Digital Age”, NGE Solutions, May 2003, Revised August 2004.

These books are available through Amazon.com and other book sellers. Please visit the author website (www.amjadumar.com) for additional details.