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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)
Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager's Guide (The Savvy Manager's Guides)
by David Loshin
Average Customer Review: 4 stars based on 11 reviews.
Customer Review: I have been in the BI world since 1994 and I have read lots of white papers, articles, and books on Business Intelligence; today, the Savvy Manager's Guide on BI is my reference. I would certainly recommend it to every person in charge of a BI project, but, most importantly, to any executive who is not sure what BI really is and abo...

Author's website: www.knowledge-integrity.com

Grid Computing: The Savvy Manager's Guide (The Savvy Manager's Guides)
Grid Computing: The Savvy Manager's Guide (The Savvy Manager's Guides)
by Pawel Plaszczak, Richard Wellner Jr. Jr.
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 benefits 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 applicabilit...

Authors' website: www.gridwisetech.com

Semantics in Business Systems: The Savvy Manager's Guide (The Savvy Manager's Guides)
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 10 reviews.
Customer Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I was skeptical that the book would be relevant to a small company's projects, but I got lots of good ideas that we can start implementing right away. Because the world of the semantic web is still so new, even our small company has a chance to contribute to a lot of the ontologies that will be used i...

Author's website: www.semanticarts.com

Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures: The Savvy Manager's Guide (The Savvy Manager's Guides)
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 website: www.service-architecture.com