Archive for October, 2007
Who Are You to Question?
Thursday, October 25th, 2007 at 8:02 am
Bill Inmon’s DW2.0™ Presentation
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
This past Tuesday I attended a presentation by Bill Inmon concerning his new concept: DW2.0™. I already knew a little about Inmon methodologies, at a high level, and-ironically enough-have recently become familiar with his “Corporate Information Factory” (CIF) approach because of my recent Kimball training in Chicago. I’ve never really put a lot of faith into most of Inmon’s methodologies, frankly because they seem to make more sense in the world of theory than they do in application. Kimball works and it works well. I could devote and entire article to the differences between Kimball and Inmon methodologies but that’s out of scope; I’ll maybe tackle that another day.
The scope of this article, however, is the Inmon presentation. Or maybe I should call it a sales pitch. Regardless …read more »
DSS/Data Warehouse Forum
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Someone in my Data Warehouse Lifecycle class in Chicago took up a list of e-mail addresses so we could all keep in contact and utilize each other for information. To more easily allow for this I quickly threw together a forum that we could all use, particularly because I found very few, if any, DSS (Decision Support Systems) forums that were worth anything.
So I decided to go ahead …read more »
