Wednesday, January 26, 10.00 - 17.00

From Warehouse to Factory:Data Warehouse 1999
W. H. (Bill) Inmon, CTO, Pine Cone Systems, Inc.

In a short decade data warehouse has grown from outlaw heresy to conventional wisdom. With this growth has come a much fuller understanding of the DSS environment. What was a data warehouse in 1990 is a corporate information factory in 2000.

This presentation addresses some of the more interesting aspects of the millennium understanding of data warehouse.

• The DSS community,
• Tourists,
• Farmers,
• Explorers,
• Data miners,
• The flow of data throughout the corporate information factory,
• Database design throughout the corporate information factory,
• The exploration warehouse,
• The enterprise data warehouse and near line storage,
• Anatomy of a data warehouse record,
• Data structures in the corporate information factory,
• Distributed metadata - gluing the corporate information factory together,
• Class IV ODS,
• Different classes of data marts,
• The global data warehouse,
• Multiple enterprise data warehouse in the same corporation.

• Database designers
• Data warehouse administrators
• Management of data warehouse
• End users