Corporate Information Factory

Recommended Reading

Articles

Adelman, Sid. “The Data Warehouse Database Explosion.” DMR (December 1996). A very good discussion of why volumes of data are growing as fast as they are in the data warehouse environment and what can be done about it.

“An Architecture for a Business and Information System.” IBM Systems Journal 17, no. 1 (1988). A description of IBM’s understanding of the data warehouse.

Ashbrook, Jim. “Information Preservation.” CIO Magazine (July 1993). An executive’s view of the data warehouse.

Bair, John. “It’s about Time! Supporting Temporal Data in a Warehouse.” INFODB 10, no. 1 (February 1996). A good discussion of some of the aspects of time-variant data in the DSS/data warehouse environment.

Ballinger, Carrie. “TPC’s Emerging Benchmark for Decision Support.” DBMS (December 1993). A description of the extension of the TPC benchmark to include DSS.

Discount Store News. “Retail Technology Charges Up at KMart.” (February 17, 1992). A description of the technology employed by KMart for its data warehouse, ODS environment.

“The Doctor of DSS.” DBMS Interview. DBMS magazine (July 1994). An interview with Ralph Kimball.

Geiger, Jon. “Data Element Definition.” DMR (December 1996). A good description of the definitions required in the system of records.

———. “Information Management for Competitive Advantage.” Strategic Systems Journal (June 1993). A discussion of how the data warehouse and the Zachman framework have advanced the state of the art.

———. “What’s in a Name.” ...