Corporate Information Factory

Welcome.

ABOUT BILL INMON...

Bill Inmon, world-renowned expert, speaker and author on data warehousing, is widely recognized as the "Father of Data Warehousing."

He was also voted as "One of the Ten IT People Who Mattered in the the Past Forty Years" by the Computer World Magazine's July 2007 issue.

He is creator of the Corporate Information Factory and more recently, creator of the Government Information Factory. With over 35 years of experience in database technology management and data warehouse design, he has been a keynote speaker for many major computing association and many industry conferences, seminars, and tradeshows.

ABOUT THIS WEBSITE

This is Bill Inmon's website on data warehousing and the Corporate Information Factory. It represents a lifetime of work and an accumulation of experience and knowledge. We hope you find the Corporate Information Factory (CIF) resources useful and valuable in all your data warehousing endeavors.


Consulting


CORPORATE INFORMATION FACTORY RESOURCES


Inmon’s DW 2.0™ – THE NEXT GENERATION OF DATA WAREHOUSING


 Building the Unstructured Data Warehouse - Conference


September 22-24, 2010


For years, corporate decisions have been made on the basis of structured, repetitive, transaction-based data. But now, for the first time, corporate textual information can be used in the decision-making process.

Now it is possible to build the unstructured data warehouse – a data warehouse based on text instead of transactions, and incorporate textual information into the corporate decision process. Read more...


 An Architectural Review by Bill Inmon and Colleagues

 INMON INSTITUTE: Online certification classes on DW 1.0, Inmon’s DW 2.0™, Unstructured Data, CIF, and more by various instructors.

Unstructured Data - The newest component of the CIF
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Check out Bill's new book: TAPPING INTO UNSTRUCTURED DATA

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