About Bill Inmon, The Father of Data Warehousing. Biography. Best known as the “Father of Data Warehousing”, Bill Inmon has become the most prolific and well-known author worldwide in the data warehousing and business intelligence arena.
In addition to authoring more than 50 books and 650 articles, Bill has been a monthly columnist with the Business Intelligence Network, EIM Institute and Data Management Review. In 2007, Bill was named by Computerworld as one of the “Ten IT People Who Mattered in the Last 40 Years” of the computer profession. Having 35 years of experience in database technology and data warehouse design, he is known globally for his seminars on developing data warehouses and information architectures. Bill has been a keynote speaker in demand for numerous computing associations, industry conferences and trade shows. Bill Inmon also has an extensive entrepreneurial background: He founded Pine Cone Systems, later named Ambeo in 1995, and founded, and took public, Prism Solutions in 1991.
DB MIner. DBMiner Tutorial. This tutorial will guide you in using DBMiner to mine three typical kinds of knowledge - associations, classifications and clusters - from a data cube created by the OLAP Manager.
As you go through the tutorial, you will perform all the operations necessary for mining these three kinds of knowledge. For information about fully exploiting the power of DBMiner, see the online documentation. This tutorial uses the existing FoodMart data cube from the OLAP Manager. You will first set up connections to an OLAP server in order to gain access to the data cube, and then you will be guided through mining associations, classifications, clusters from this cube. Logging In. The Corporate Information Factory - Information Management Magazine Article.