- Bill Inmon
William Harvey Inmon (born
July 20 ,1945 , inSan Diego, California ) is recognized by many as the "father of data warehousing". This title stems from the fact that he coined the term, wrote the first book, held the first conference (with Arnie Barnett), wrote the first column in a magazine and was the first to offer classes indata warehousing .Bill Inmon was the creator of the Corporate Information Factory, and the Government Information Factory, as well as Data Warehousing 2.0. Mr. Inmon is a prolific author on the building, usage, and maintenance of the data warehouse and the Corporate Information Factory.
In July 2007 Bill was named by Computerworld as one of the ten people that most influenced the first 40 years of the computer industry.
Books by Inmon
Building the Data Warehouse, 4th Edition - by W. H. Inmon, Wiley and Sons
Exploration Warehousing: Turning Business Information into Business Opportunity - by William H. Inmon, R. H. Terdeman, John Wiley and Sons
Business Metadata, with Bonnie Oneil and Lowell Fryman, Elsevier Press 2007
The Corporate Information Factory, with Claudia Imhoff and Ryan Sousa, John Wiley and Sons
Tapping Into Unstructured Data, with Tony Nesavich, Prentice Hall, 2007
DW 2.0 - Architecture for THe Next Generation of Data Warehousing, with Derek Strauss and Genia Neushloss, Elsevier Press, 2008
Effective Data Base Design, Prentice Hall, 1981
Rdb/VMS: Developing the Data Warehouse, with
Chuck Kelley , QED, 1992External links
* [http://www.inmoncif.com Corporate Information Factory]
* [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/i/Inmon:William_H=.html DBLP Bibliography]
* Bill Inmon Interviewed on CS Techcast [http://www.cstechcast.com/home.aspx?Episode=2 Episode 2]
* [http://www.b-eye-network.com/channels/index.php?filter_channel=1134 The Bill Inmon Channel]
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