Vol. 1 · No. 10 · Dec 2007
Is Microsoft An Architecture?
The other day I was at a review of a company’s plan for DSS and analytical processing. I heard something that piqued my interest. When the question was asked – “what architecture do you…
Bill Inmon, the father of the data warehouse concept, the corporate information factory, and the government information factory has written 47 books on data warehouse, data base, and information technology management. His publishers include John Wiley, Prentice-Hall, and QED. His books have been translated into nine languages. More than thirty of his books have been book club selections. In addition Bill has written over 750 articles for trade journals such as Data Management Review, Byte, Datamation, ComputerWorld, and many others. Currently Bill has a newsletter with b-eye-network.com that reaches 55,000 people.
Bill founded Inmon Data Systems, a company that reads and manages unstructured data - emails, telephone transcripts, documents - and processes them for inclusion into a structured data warehouse. In addition IDS creates visualizations for unstructured data. IDS has technology that crosses the bridge between unstructured data and structured data, currently protected by seven patents.
Bill can be reached at BInmon@BillInmon.com
Writing by Bill Inmon
Author archive →Vol. 1 · No. 4 · Jun 2007
A BRIEF HISTORY OF DATA WAREHOUSING FROM THE VENDOR’S PERSPECTIVE (PART II)
One industry that did start as a series of new products with the advent of data warehousing was the ETL industry. In the very beginning, all code for placing data in a data warehouse…
Vol. 1 · No. 3 · May 2007
A BRIEF HISTORY OF DATA WAREHOUSING: FROM THE VENDORS PERSPECTIVE (PART I)
If you just happened to enter the data warehouse profession, you will find an almost bewildering choice of technologies, all of which purport to be data warehouse technologies. Indeed, the world of data warehousing…