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

Business & Money

Inmon, W.H.

Sousa, Ryan

Imhoff, Claudia

Management & Leadership

wiley

Reduce operating and maintenance costs while substantially improving the performance of new and existing data warehouses and data marts Data Warehouse Performance This book tells you what you need to know to design, build, and manage data warehouses and data marts for optimum performance. Written by an all-star team of data warehouse pioneers and innovators-including Bill Inmon, "the father of the data warehouse," and Ken Rudin, one of the leading experts on performance-the book describes the layers of a high-performance data warehouse environment and guides the reader through their implementation and management. It also supplies proven techniques for supercharging the performance of existing environments. Crucial topics covered include: * Mitigating the impact of dormant data on performance * Data cleansing and implementation techniques * Implementing platform components like data marts to support scalability * Database design, sizing, and optimization techniques, including star schema and indexing * Hardware assessment, selection, and sizing * The role of monitors in balancing workload and assessing performance * Creating a service management contract to meet user expectations

Data Warehouse Performance

Rudin, Ken

Buss, Christopher K.

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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