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Case studies, whitepapers, and insights into data warehousing, data warehouse appliances, enterprise data warehousing and green data warehousing.

A Father's View of the Data Warehouse
A Father's View of the Data Warehouse
By Hanne Breddam
Insight



Bill Inmon is recognized as the Father of the Data Warehouse and was voted as "One of the Ten IT People Who Mattered in the Past Forty Years" by Computer World Magazine in 2007. He's written 46 books and 650 articles on the topics, and been involved with various business successes.

 
What is Data Warehouse Appliance?
What is Data Warehouse Appliance?
By Colin White
Overview



The world of Data Warehouse Appliances is rapidly evolving, making the task of choosing the right appliance for your circumstances rather daunting. Colin White (founder of BI Research) suggests that the following principles should always be kept in mind when selecting an appliance:

 
Taking Inventory Of The Unstructured World
Taking Inventory Of The Unstructured World
By Bill Inmon
Best Practice



In most companies, there is a wealth of unstructured textual information. There are documents of many kinds found in many places. There are reports. There are articles. There are spreadsheets. There are contracts. In a word there are many documents of many types in many places in the corporation.

 

Most Recent Data Warehousing
Biaggio Mcphee and His Enron Data Warehouse
By Bill Inmon
Insight



It's not often that data warehousing is involved in the front page news. As important and as powerful as data warehousing is, it simply is a back room exercise in most places. It is an infrastructure rather than a proactive, in your face, part of life.

 
Authors In Your Bookshelf
By Bill Inmon
Insight



One of my hobbies is in looking at the books on people's bookshelves when I am in their office. The books say a lot about the person. Some people have no books whatsoever. I wonder if this person is even interested in the issues of his/her profession. Other people have lots of books – old manuals, new books, and so on.

 
A Modern Data Warehouse Pop Quiz
By Bill Inmon
Best Practice



OK. It is time to take out a sheet of paper and a pencil and put your books away. It is time for a closed book pop quiz.

Data warehouse has been growing and maturing at a rapid pace. It is time to make sure we are up to speed on what's new in data warehousing.

 
The Evolution Of Textual Analytics
By Bill Inmon
Insight



The world of computers is immature. Computers have been around since the 1950’s. Prior to that there was no computing. Compare the computing profession to other professions and there is no contest. Go to Rome and see the works that are standing today that were wrought by engineers two thousand years ago. Go to Egypt and look at the pyramids and look at the hieroglyphics on the wall. Much of the writing on the wall is from an accountant discussing how much grain is owed the Pharoah.

 
The Elusive Virtual Data Warehouse
By Bill Inmon
Insight



Many managers are extremely reluctant to integrate company data. The 'solution that many of them come up with is the ever elusive virtual data warehouse. This is where a single query is sent to several distributed databases. Bill Immon (the 'father of the data warehouse') points out that following this method is not only incredibly wasteful (since it requires a huge amount of system resources) but also ultimately counterproductive (since the data that is delivered will still have to be integrated in order to make sense of it)

 
Data Warehouse Appliances: Evolution or Revolution?
By Richard Hackathorn & Colin White
Whitepaper



Data Warehouse Appliances are changing the way in which companies manage and access their data. The huge variety of products that are available can be slightly bewildering. The purpose of this very helpful study is to analyze some trends in data warehousing and related product development.

 
Extending the Value of your Data Warehousing Investment
By TDWI Research
Best Practice



How to make predictive analytics work for you

Predictive analytics is a set of business intelligence (BI) technologies that uncovers relationships and patterns within large volumes of data that can be used to predict behavior and events. Unlike other BI technologies, predictive analytics is forward-looking, using past events to anticipate the future. Predictive analytics can identify the customers most likely to churn next month or to respond to next week's direct mail piece.

 
Effective Data Warehouse Governance (Part 2)
By Monica Tyson
Best Practice



This is the second of two-part series exploring effective data warehouse governance. The first article introduced a framework for data warehouse governance and discussed a potential structure for organizing related oversight committees. This second article discusses insights into effective data warehouse governance and keys to success.

 
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