Corporate Information Factory, 2nd Edition
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Corporate Information Factory, 2nd Edition
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From the Back Cover
The father of the data warehouse incorporates the latest technologies into his blueprint for integrated decision support systems
Having invented the corporate information factory (CIF) to help IT and database managers cut through the jungle of information technologies out there, bestselling author Bill Inmon again teams up with experts Claudia Imhoff and Ryan Sousa to show you how to integrate all key components of the modern information system architecture in a way that meets your evolving business needs.
You'll get clear explanations on how to integrate the enterprise data warehouse with a host of new technologies and solutions that have emerged since this groundbreaking work was first published in 1998. You'll also discover how to leverage these technologies to ensure broad access to information for end users, while reducing costs and improving scalability across the enterprise. Ultimately, you'll learn to design, build, and implement a company-wide information ecosystem that:
* Integrates with legacy systems and the Web
* Leverages third-party ERP, CRM, and eBusiness applications
* Exploits the latest in data exploration and mining technologies
* Takes advantage of low-cost alternative storage
* Scales across the enterprise through the use of data marts and operational data stores
* Accommodates the use of multiple data warehouses
* Can start small and grow incrementally
About the Author
W. H. INMON, the acknowledged "father of data warehousing," is a partner in www.billinmon.com, a Web site for the corporate information factory and modern systems architecture. He has written over 40 books on databases, database management, and data warehouse technology, including the recently published Exploration Warehousing (Wiley). Inmon is also a frequent speaker at leading industry conferences and contributes to DM Review.
CLAUDIA IMHOFF, PhD, is a Senior Vice President of Braun Consulting and a popular speaker for national and international events on the corporate information factory. Dr. Imhoff has coauthored three books dealing with different aspects of the corporate information factory, including Building the Customer-Centric Enterprise (Wiley), and is a columnist for business and technology magazines.
RYAN SOUSA has extensive experience implementing large customer relationship management solutions using the corporate information factory. He is coauthor of Data Warehouse Performance (Wiley) and can be contacted at rwsousa@earthlink.net.
eganov (WI USA) | 
21/03/2001
21/03/2001
Evaluating "overview" books such as these is difficult. If this is a new subject to you or you are a manager needing an overview, you'll probably find it a good introduction to the Inmon-style Data Warehouse (the other being Kimball-style). But after giving the book a "once-over", that's it. Nothing is handled in enough detail to make this any kind of reference or guide. So from the novice perspective this is a "must read" and as good an introduction to CIF as you will get, from the people that define the standards - give it 4 stars (why not 5 stars will be discussed later). If you have worked on Data Warehousing projects in the past but your environment was not particularly designed with much forethought, then 3 stars. If you are experienced then you'll probably see this as a waste of time, too high level. You can get everything in here from various web sites, whitepapers or other books - 1 star. Regardless of where you're coming from though this is one of the few books that actually use pictures in a way that is detrimental to clarity. Some are repeated so many times, so inane or so large that you have to surmise that they are mostly there to thicken the book. The appendix, CIF Architecture Guidelines, is also the largest section of the book yet I have no idea what the point is. I think it would be more appropriately titled - Incomplete Ruminations on Random Topics.
DTC# ROP (ROP) |
22/05/2000
22/05/2000
I saw Ms. Imhoff give a talk, so I was motivated to buy her book. I was expecting more detail and more depth, but I was satisfied anyway. As a new comer to the data warehousing/OLAP field, I found it helpful to have a book that showed me the "forest"; many other books are available to show me the "trees."
The book is a very high-level architectural overview of the components of a "corporate information factory", including the data warehouse, data mart, and operational data store. It describes the components and their relationships. It describes the motivations and reasons these components are organized the way they are. It describes some of the important engineering tradeoffs in alternate designs.
The book is a quick and simple read. I got a few very important concepts and ideas from it, but I must definitely read several other books for greater depth and focus.
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