Bill Inmon—the father of the data warehouse—offers a new framework for managing information, a proven way to organize information systems that he calls the "corporate information factory." He describes an information architecture in which legacy systems, data warehouses, data marts, and the Internet work together to meet real business needs. This book provides a roadmap for creating integrated solutions that will work now and in the future.
W. H. INMON is Chief Technology Officer at Pine Cone Systems, a company that builds software for the management of the data warehouse environment. He has written more than 30 books and contributes regularly to professional journals.
CLAUDIA IMHOFF is the founder and CEO of Intelligent Solutions, Inc., a company that assists corporations in evolving corporate information factories. She coauthored the book, Building the Operational Data Store (Wiley).
RYAN SOUSA is Chief Technology Officer of Intelligent Solutions and is one of the first people to successfully implement a corporate information factory.