Exploration Warehousing: Turning Business Information into Business Opportunity

Rating:
Summary: Better to look elsewhere
Review: Obviously, you have to respect Bill Inmon's work in the Data Warehouse
industry but I don't consider this book one of his better efforts.
It's rather short at 250 pages and there is plenty of filler from the
oversize glossary to weak chapters on data mining and the politics of
exploration processing. There are also a couple of chapters
(Corporate Information Factory description, Chain of
Beneficence)devoted to topics that have been published in many places
and can be easily found, for free, on the net. Even some of the core
Exploration Warehouse technology chapters are a bit dated due to some
innovations from Sand Technology and Whitecross. Overall, a
very valuable technology but most of the same information can be found in
whitepapers from Sand and Whitecross.
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Rating:
Summary: Can work out some kinks however good book.
Review: Those who are interested in building their knowledge of how to exploit their data warehousing resources, and collaborating with the business stakeholders, Inmon provides some great examples and great suggetions for design.