Corporate Information Factory

By Ryan Sousa, Claudia Imhoff, William H. Inmon

Book Overview

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: Take a fresh look at the maturing role of the information ecosystem in the corporation Provide a frank and unbiased critique of data warehouses, data marts, and operational data stores in light of how today's corporations use information Supply guidelines for evaluating vendor claims about different products Show where the latest technologies fit within the corporate information factory Explain how to create a strategy for building an integrated company-wide information environment.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471197335
• ISBN13: 9780471197331
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.7" x 0.9" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Excellent starting point in data warehousing

What a number of previous reviewers did not realise is that this book is about data warehouses, and not enterprise architecture, even though it is named to seem that way. This book is an excellent high level overview of data warehouses and should be read by anyone who is going to be building a data warehouse from scratch or needs a starting place to learn about data warehouses. It explains all the concepts that are involved in building a data warehouse and explains what things can cause problems when implementing one. It will not, however, describe the technical details on how to implement the data warehouse or many of the structures within it. That kind of information is readily available in many other books. This is a perfect starting point for learning about data warehouses and especially good since it is a quick read and will not waste your time with a lot of wordiness.

Valuable guidelines for corporate information integration.

If you are planning or considering integration of your corporate data, then you should read this book. Written by Bill Inmon (father of the data warehouse concept), Claudia Imhoff (founder of Intelligent Systems) and Ryan Sousa (CTO Intelligent Systems) this book describes an architecture and methodology for integrating operational and informational systems. Of special interest to me were the metadata and internet chapters.