Turning Spreadsheets into Corporate Data - Softcover

Inmon, Bill

 
9781634622288: Turning Spreadsheets into Corporate Data
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1634622286 ISBN 13: 9781634622288
Publisher: Technics Publications, 2017

Synopsis

For years, business users have leveraged spreadsheets for storing and communicating data. Although spreadsheets may be easy to create and update, making important corporate decisions based on spreadsheets is risky due to the lack of data credibility. Whether you are a manager, developer, end user, or student, this book will help you turn spreadsheet data into credible, useful, reliable data that can be trusted in order to make important decisions.
A chapter is dedicated to each of the following topics:

  • Brief history of spreadsheets
  • Spreadsheet paradox
  • Spreadsheet varieties
  • The PDF spreadsheet
  • Spreadsheet formatting
  • Spreadsheet disambiguation
  • The intermediate database
  • The ssdef database
  • The corporate database
  • The metadata database (mnemonic database)
  • Political considerations
  • Data modeling and the spreadsheet
  • Case study

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About the Author

Bill Inmon, the "father of the data warehouse," has written 60 books published in nine languages. ComputerWorld named Bill one of the ten most influential people in the history of the computer profession. Bill's latest adventure is the building of technology known as textual disambiguation.

From the Inside Flap

For years, business users have leveraged spreadsheets for storing and communicating data. Although spreadsheets may be easy to create and update, making important corporate decisions based on spreadsheets is risky due to the lack of data credibility. Whether you are a manager, developer, end user, or student, this book will help you turn spreadsheet data into credible, useful, reliable data that can be trusted in order to make important decisions.A chapter is dedicated to each of the following topics: Brief history of spreadsheets Spreadsheet paradox Spreadsheet varieties The PDF spreadsheet Spreadsheet formatting Spreadsheet disambiguation The intermediate database The ssdef database The corporate database The metadata database (mnemonic database) Political considerations Data modeling and the spreadsheet Case study

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Publisher
Technics Publications
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1634622286
ISBN 13 
9781634622288
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
130