Everything you need to know about building, using, managing, and getting the most out of an operational data store. "...the combination of the Operational Data Store along with the data warehouse 'flesh out' the modern information architecture of systems. Together these two architectural combine...to form a complete picture of modern systems architecture." W. H. Inmon. The operational data store is a dynamic architectural construct specifically designed for doing high-speed, integrated operational processing. It achieves at the operational level what the data warehouse does at the strategic/managerial level. Now, from a team of experts headed by W. H. Inmon, the "father of the data warehouse," here is the first comprehensive guide to understanding, building, and using operational data stores. Providing in-depth coverage of all practical and theoretical issues surrounding the operational data store, it tells you: <ul>
<li>What the operational data store is, how it differs from the data warehouse, where it fits within modern systems architecture.</li> <li>How the operational data store relates to decision support and executive information systems data.</li> <li>Hardware platforms and configurations, related database design techniques, the role of CASE and DBMS technologies, and other crucial technical considerations.</li> <li>How to design and build an operational data store—including step-by-step guidelines, a comprehensive work plan, and numerous illustrative case studies.</li> <li>Techniques for using the operational data store in conjunction with the data warehouse to provide companies with a powerful competitive edge.</li> <li>And much more. Find out what an operational data store can do for your company and how to build one tailored to your organization's unique operational style and day-to-day information needs in Building the Operational Data Store. </li> </ul>

Building the Operational Data Store

Business & Money

Inmon, W.H.

Imhoff, Claudia

Battas, Greg

Management & Leadership

wiley

From the father of the data warehouse, a dynamic new approach to meeting your evolving business needs for information. 
From traditional data warehousing to data marts and operational data stores, a dizzying array of architectures and tools are now available to help enterprises strategically use and manage information. Each has its unique costs and benefits associated with delivering value to the business. But, despite all the hype, not all solutions are equally well suited to every company's needs. In Corporate Information Factory, Bill Inmon, Claudia Imhoff, and Ryan Sousa introduce a practical and proven framework that shows companies how to leverage these solutions to build a company-wide information ecosystem. Writing for corporate database and data warehouse managers, Inmon, Imhoff, and Sousa: <ul>
<li>Take a fresh look at the maturing role of the information ecosystem in the corporation</li> <li>Provide a frank and unbiased critique of data warehouses, data marts, and operational data stores in light of how today's corporations use information</li> <li>Supply guidelines for evaluating vendor claims about different products</li> <li>Show where the latest technologies fit within the corporate information factory</li> <li>Explain how to create a strategy for building an integrated company-wide information environment.</li> </ul>

Corporate Information Factory

Sousa, Ryan

Strategies for leveraging information technologies to improve customer relationships With E-business comes the opportunity for companies to really get to know their customers--who they are and their buying patterns. Business managers need an integrated strategy that supports customers from the moment they enter the front door--or Web site--right through to fulfillment, support, and promotion of new products and services. Along the way, IT managers need an integrated set of technologies--from Web sites to databases and data mining tools--to make all of this work. This book shows both IT and business managers how to match business strategies to the technologies needed to make them work. Claudia Imhoff helped pioneer this set of technologies, called the Corporate Information Factory (CIF). She and her coauthors take readers step-by-step through the process of using the CIF for creating a customer-focused enterprise in which the end results are increased market share and improved customer satisfaction and retention. They show how the CIF can be used to ensure accuracy, identify customer needs, tailor promotions, and more.

Building the Customer-Centric Enterprise: Data Warehousing Techniques for Supporting Customer Relationship Management

Geiger, Jonathan G.

Loftis, Lisa

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

A revolutionary new approach to unearthing business opportunities, from the father of the data warehouseLet Bill Inmon, the father of the data warehouse, along with Robert Terdeman and Claudia Imhoff, introduce you to exploration warehousing, an innovative new approach to finding business opportunities hidden in patterns of data. In this groundbreaking book, they clearly explain the exploration process and identify the types of data warehouse designs best suited for exploration. They then outline the steps that must be followed in order to turn data into a competitive advantage. Using numerous case examples, the authors describe original exploration techniques and demonstrate how IT managers can work together with business managers to identify significant value in the data. These patterns can reveal opportunities in the marketplace for new products and services, when to discontinue products and services, where to streamline operations, and much more. To verify the strength and accuracy of these patterns, they show you how to use exploration with data mining techniques to assure business value. With this book, you'll gain a better understanding of: - The process of exploring data - The infrastructure of exploration - The roles that analysts play in your organization - How to form a basis of data that can be used for analysis - How patterns in data can be turned into business opportunity - When patterns should not be turned into business opportunity - The role of data mining

Exploration Warehousing: Turning Business Information into Business Opportunity

Terdeman, R. H.

Marketing & Sales

The "father of data warehousing" incorporates the latest technologies into his blueprint for integrated decision support systems Today's corporate IT and data warehouse managers are required to make a small army of technologies work together to ensure fast and accurate information for business managers. Bill Inmon created the Corporate Information Factory to solve the needs of these managers. Since the First Edition, the design of the factory has grown and changed dramatically. This Second Edition, revised and expanded by 40% with five new chapters, incorporates these changes. This step-by-step guide will enable readers to connect their legacy systems with the data warehouse and deal with a host of new and changing technologies, including Web access mechanisms, e-commerce systems, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems. The book also looks closely at exploration and data mining servers for analyzing customer behavior and departmental data marts for finance, sales, and marketing.

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Building the Operational Data Store

Corporate Information Factory

Building the Customer-Centric Enterprise: Data Warehousing Techniques for Supporting Customer Relationship Management

Exploration Warehousing: Turning Business Information into Business Opportunity

Corporate Information Factory