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The Savvy Manager's Guides are intended to give IT managers the information they need to effectively manage their technologists, as well as conscientiously inform business decision makers in their organizations concerning a given technology and how that technology can be used. Doug Barry, Principal at Barry & Associates, is the series editor and the author of one of the guides.


Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager's Guide (The Savvy Manager's Guides)
by David Loshin
Average Customer Review: 4.5 stars based on 8 reviews.
Customer Review: The book does a fantastic job of providing a managerial level overview of the business intelligence area and the various topics it includes (ETL, Data Cleansing, Metadata, Data Werehousing, ....). To me its easily the first book one should start with in understanding these areas. After which you can choose to dig into areas of intere...

Author's Web site: www.knowledge-integrity.com


Grid Computing: The Savvy Manager's Guide (The Savvy Manager's Guides) (The Savvy Manager's Guides)
by Pawel Plaszczak, Jr., Richard Wellner
Average Customer Review: 4.5 stars based on 5 reviews.
Customer Review: The hundreds of grids deployed over the years in research and academic domains provide ample proof of the benfits that may be realized through the use of grid technologies. But these successes are sometimes overshadowed by recent market hype over grid computing that may lead one to question it's maturity, readiness, and applicability...

Authors' Web site: www.gridwisetech.com


Semantics in Business Systems: The Savvy Manager's Guide (The Savvy Manager's Guides)
by Dave McComb
Average Customer Review: 4.5 stars based on 9 reviews.
Customer Review: As a professional data modeller, I found this book impressive, inspiring, and distressing. It is impressive because the author has done a good job of encapsulating a broad set of what on the surface appear to be completely unrelated topics--metadata, business rules, data modeling, XML, etc. Except that I am interested in all of them,...

Author's Web site: www.semanticarts.com


Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures: The Savvy Manager's Guide (The Savvy Manager's Guides)
by Douglas K. Barry
Average Customer Review: 4 stars based on 13 reviews.
Customer Review: As a fellow author of a book targeted at managers, I feel that I have a pretty good understanding of their needs. Doug has done an admirable job of meeting these needs for Web services. This is a book for managers that want to have sucessful Web services projects. Doug starts by motivating the need for Web services with a utopian vi...

Author's Web site: www.service-architecture.com

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