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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
Description: Business Intelligence describes the basic architectural components of a business intelligence environment, ranging from traditional topics such as business process modeling, data modeling, and more modern topics such as business rule systems, data profiling, information compliance and data quality, data warehousing, and data mining. This book progresses through a logical sequence, ...

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.
Description: A decade ago, the corporate world viewed grid computing as a curiosity. Today, it views it as an opportunity--a chance to reduce costs, improve performance, fund new projects, and take advantage of under-utilized capacity. The engineering behind this transformation has been amply documented. Until now, however, little has been written to prepare managers, executives, and other deci...

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
Description: Semantics in Business Systems begins with a description of what semantics are and how they affect business systems. It examines four main aspects of the application of semantics to systems, specifically: How do we infer meaning from unstructured information, how do application systems make meaning as they operate, how do practitioners uncover meaning in business settings, and how d...

Author's website: www.semanticarts.com

Web Services, Service-Oriented Architectures, and Cloud Computing (The Savvy Manager's Guides)
Web Services, Service-Oriented Architectures, and Cloud Computing (The Savvy Manager's Guides)
by Douglas K. Barry
Description: Web services are leading to the use of more packaged software either as an internal service or an external service available over the Internet. These services, which will be connected together to create the information technology systems of the future, will require less custom software in our organizations and more creativity in the connections between the services. This book begin...

Author's website: www.service-architecture.com