Bill Inmon

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2023-12-01

Bill Inmon

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William Harvey Inmon (born 1945) is an American computer scientist , recognized by many as the father of the data warehouse .^[1] ^[2] Bill Inmon 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 in data warehousing . Bill Inmon created the accepted definition of what a data warehouse is - a subject oriented, nonvolatile, integrated, time variant collection of data in support of management's decisions. Compared with the approach of the other pioneering architect of data warehousing, Ralph Kimball , Inmon's approach is often characterized as a top-down approach.

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Bill Inmon was born July 20, 1945 in San Diego, California . He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Yale University , and his Master of Science degree in Computer Science from New Mexico State University .

He has worked for American Management Systems and Coopers & Lybrand before 1991, when he founded the company Prism Solutions, which he took public. In 1995 he founded Pine Cone Systems, which was renamed Ambeo later on. In 1999, Bill created the Corporate Information Factory Web site to educate professionals and decision makers about data warehousing and the Corporate Information Factory.^[3]

Further Bill Inmon was the creator of 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. His books include "Building the Data Warehouse" (1992, with later editions) and "DW 2.0: The Architecture for the Next Generation of Data Warehousing" (2008).

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.^[4]

Bill Inmon's association with data warehousing stems from the fact that he wrote the first book on data warehousing, he coined the original term, he held the first conference on data warehousing (with Arnie Barnett), he wrote the first column in a magazine on data warehousing, he has written over 1,000 articles on data warehousing in journals and newsletters, he created the first fold out wall chart for data warehousing and he conducted the first classes on data warehousing. Recent advances by Bill include the creation of DW 2.0 - the definition of the next generation of data warehousing. In addition Bill was the creator of the corporate information factory (the "cif") which describes the larger information architecture into which warehousing fits. More recently Bill has developed the technology for including unstructured textual data into the data warehouse - the worlds first "textual ETL".

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Bill Inmon has published more than 40 books and 1,000 articles on data warehousing and data management. A selection:

1981. Effective Data Base Design . Prentice Hall, 1981
1986. Information systems architecture : a system developer's primer . Prentice-Hall.
1986. The dynamics of data base . With Thomas J. Bird, Jr. Prentice-Hall.
1988. Information engineering for the practitioner : putting theory into practice . Prentice Hall.
1992. Rdb/VMS: Developing the Data Warehouse . With Chuck Kelley, QED, 19921321abhish
1992. Building the Data Warehouse . 1st Edition. Wiley and Sons
1998. Corporate Information Factory . With Claudia Imhoff and Ryan Sousa. John Wiley and Sons
2000. Exploration Warehousing: Turning Business Information into Business Opportunity . With R. H. Terdeman, John Wiley and Sons
2007. Business Metadata . With Bonnie Oneil and Lowell Fryman. Elsevier Press 2007
2007. Tapping Into Unstructured Data . With Tony Nesavich. Prentice Hall, 2007
2008. DW 2.0 - Architecture for the Next Generation of Data Warehousing . With Derek Strauss and Genia Neushloss, Elsevier Press, 2008

[edit ] References

^ Jill Dyché (2000). e-Data: turning data into information with data warehousing . Addison-Wesley. p.323.
^ Alexander Factor (2001). Analyzing Application Service Providers‎ . Prentice Hall PTR. p.290.
^ About Bill : William H. Inmon, "The Father of Data Warehousing" . Inmon Consulting Services 2007.
^ Computer World Magazine's July 2007 issue.