Warehousing Resources

if... recommends:

Corporate Information Factory
by William Inmon, Claudia Imhoff, and Ryan Sousa

You may also want to read:
Data Warehouse Performance by Ken Rudin, Christopher Buss, William H. Inmon
Decision Support in the Data Warehouse by Paul Gray, Hugh J. Watson

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Whether you are planning, implementing or enhancing your data warehouse or data mart, if… can add value to that process.

Including the power of temporal technology in building your mart or warehouse gives you the ability to grow your queries to answer the questions you will want to ask tomorrow -- as well as the questions you need to ask today. By building an if… enabled warehouse or mart, you will be building into your data the capability to power the new class of analytic applications that Synchrony introduced.

Customization of Synchrony is easy, enhancing existing tools or working compatibly with them to give you the broadest range of query power on the market today.

To provide you with the information on those issues you may be facing – in whatever stage of data warehousing you may be – if… presents some resources you may find useful.

Ralph Kimball: Ralph is widely known for his innovative and forward-looking approach to data marts and warehouses. He is the author of The Data Warehouse Toolkit and the newly-released Data Warehouse Life Cycle, both from John Wiley & Son, publishers.

Articles from DBMS Magazine:

"Digging Into Data Mining"

"Turbo Charge Your Query Tools"

"Data Warehouse Role Models"

"A Dimensional Modeling Manifesto"

"It’s Time for Time"

Larry Greenfield’s Data Warehousing Information Center: This site's aim is to help readers learn about data warehousing and decision support systems.

The Data Warehousing Institute: The Data Warehousing Institute is an independent educational organization. The Institute is dedicated to helping its members increase their understanding and use of business intelligence by educating decision-makers and IS professionals on the proper deployment of data warehousing strategies and technologies.

The Data Warehousing Knowledge Center: A not-for-profit organization whose objective is to unite data warehousing users, vendors, consultants and other important parties into mutually beneficial relationships.

OLAP Report: This Web site provides regularly updated, detailed and unbiased information on the OLAP market and OLAP products. It provides updated information for subscribers to The OLAP Report, but also contains substantial information for everyone with an interest in on-line analytical processing.

An Introduction to Data Warehousing: by Vivek R. Gupta, Senior Consultant, System Services Corporation: An interesting overview of data warehousing and its practical background.

Intelligent Solutions has gathered together a collection of some files you can download which may prove useful during the implementation and maintenance of your Data Warehouse, Operation Data Store, or Decision Support System.

@BRINT: Their mission is creation and dissemination of knowledge of contemporary business, management, strategy and information technology issues to facilitate organizational, societal and individual performance, success and fulfillment. This is a general business site, but it is a good index of related articles, white papers and discussions.

Data Warehouse/Data Mart Navigator by Atre Corporation, a consulting group specializing in data marts and data warehouses, displays the various levels of soup-to-nuts data warehouse development.