Bill Inmon
{{short description|American computer scientist}}
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William H. Inmon (born 1945) is an American computer scientist, recognized by many as the father of the data warehouse.Jill Dyché (2000). e-Data: turning data into information with data warehousing. Addison-Wesley. p.323.Alexander Factor (2001). Analyzing Application Service Providers. Prentice Hall PTR. p.290. Inmon wrote the first book, held the first conference (with Arnie Barnett), wrote the first column in a magazine and was the first to offer classes in data warehousing. Inmon created the accepted definition of what a data warehouse is - a subject oriented, nonvolatile, integrated, time variant collection of data in support of management's decisions. Compared with the approach of the other pioneering architect of data warehousing, Ralph Kimball, Inmon's approach is often characterized as a top-down approach.
Biography
William H. Inmon was born July 20, 1945, in San Diego, California. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Yale University in 1967, and his Master of Science degree in computer science from New Mexico State University.
He worked for American Management Systems and Coopers & Lybrand before 1991, when he founded the company Prism Solutions, which he took public. In 1995 he founded Pine Cone Systems, which was renamed Ambeo later on. In 1999, he created a corporate information factory web site for his consulting business.[http://www.inmoncif.com/about/ About Bill : William H. Inmon, "The Father of Data Warehousing"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713035340/http://www.inmoncif.com/about/ |date=2011-07-13 }}. Inmon Consulting Services 2007.
Inmon coined terms such as the government information factory, as well as data warehousing 2.0. Inmon promotes building, usage, and maintenance of data warehouses and related topics. His books include "Building the Data Warehouse" (1992, with later editions) and "DW 2.0: The Architecture for the Next Generation of Data Warehousing" (2008).
In July 2007, Inmon was named by Computerworld as one of the ten people that most influenced the first 40 years of the computer industry.Computer World Magazine's July 2007 issue.
Inmon's association with data warehousing stems from the fact that he wrote the first{{Cite book|last=Inmon, William H.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24846118|title=Building the data warehouse|date=1992|publisher=QED Technical Pub. Group|isbn=0-89435-404-3|location=Boston|oclc=24846118}} book on data warehousing he held the first conference on data warehousing (with Arnie Barnett), he wrote the first column in a magazine on data warehousing, he has written over 1,000 articles on data warehousing in journals and newsletters, he created the first fold out wall chart for data warehousing and he conducted the first classes on data warehousing.
In 2012, Inmon developed and made public technology known as "textual disambiguation". Textual disambiguation applies context to raw text and reformats the raw text and context into a standard data base format. Once raw text is passed through textual disambiguation, it can easily and efficiently be accessed and analyzed by standard business intelligence technology. Textual disambiguation is accomplished through the execution of TextualETL.
Inmon owns and operates Forest Rim Technology, a company that applies and implements data warehousing solutions executed through textual disambiguation and TextualETL.[https://www.forestrimtech.com/t Forest Rim Technology]
Awards
- (2002) DAMA International Professional Achievement Award for, "major contributions as the 'father of data warehousing' and a recognized thought leader in decision support" from DAMA International, The Global Data Management Community. [https://www.dama.org/cpages/william-bill-inmon DAMA International]
- (2018) Received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Data Modelling Zone.
- (December 2020) Received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Project Management Institute (PMI).
Publications
Bill Inmon has published more than 60 books in nine languages and 2,000 articles on data warehousing and data management.
- {{citation | title= Effective Data Base Design |year=1981| publisher=Prentice-Hall |isbn= 9780132414890}}
- {{citation |last1= Inmon|first1=William H.|last2=Bird|first2=Thomas J.|title= The Dynamics of Data Base |year=1986| publisher=Prentice-Hall |isbn= 9780132214742}}
- {{citation | title= Information Engineering For The Practitioner : Putting Theory into Practice |year=1988| publisher=Prentice-Hall |isbn= 9780134645797}}
- {{citation |title= Information Systems Architecture, Development in the 90's |year=1992|publisher=QED Pub. Group |isbn= 978-0894354106}}
- {{citation |title= Building the Data Warehouse |year=1992|publisher=Wiley |isbn= 9780764599446}}
- {{citation |last1= Inmon|first1=William H.|last2=Kelley|first2=Chuck|title= Rdb/VMS: Developing the Data Warehouse |year=1993| publisher=QED Pub. Group |isbn= 9780894354298}}
- Inmon, William H.; Imhoff Claudia; Battas, Greg (1996) Building the Operational Data Store, Wiley, {{ISBN|0-471-12822-8}}
- {{citation |last1= Inmon|first1=William H.|last2=Imhoff|first2=Claudia|last3=Sousa|first3=Ryan|title= Corporate Information Factory |year=1998| publisher=Wiley |isbn= 978-0471399612}}
- {{citation |last1= Inmon|first1=William H.|last2=Terdeman|first2=R. H.|last3=Imhoff|first3=Claudia|title= Exploration Warehousing: Turning Business Information into Business Opportunity |year=2000| publisher=Wiley |isbn= 978-0471374732}}
- {{citation |last1= Inmon|first1=William H.|last2=Oneil|first2=Bonnie|last3=Fryman|first3=Lowell|title= Business Metadata: Capturing Enterprise Knowledge |year=2007| publisher=Elsevier Press|isbn= 978-0123737267}}
- {{citation |last1= Inmon|first1=William H.|last2=Nesavich|first2=Tony|title= Tapping Into Unstructured Data: Integrating Unstructured Data and Textual Analytics Into Business Intelligence |year=2007| publisher=Prentice-Hall|isbn= 978-0132360296}}
- {{citation |last1= Inmon|first1=William H.|last2=Strauss|first2=Derek|last3=Neushloss|first3=Genia|title= DW 2.0: The Architecture for the Next Generation of Data Warehousing (Morgan Kaufman Series in Data Management Systems) |year=2008| publisher=Elsevier Press|isbn= 978-0123743190}}
- {{citation |last1= Inmon|first1=William H.|last2=Linstedt|first2=Daniel|last3=Levins|first3=Mary|title= Data Architecture: A Primer for the Data Scientist |year=2014| publisher=Academic Press |isbn= 978-0128169162}}
- {{citation |last1= Brestoff|first1=Nelson E.|last2=Inmon|first2=William H.|title= Preventing Litigation: An Early Warning System to Get Big Value Out of Big Data |year=2015|publisher=Business Expert Press |isbn= 978-1631573156}}
- {{citation |title= Data Lake Architecture: Designing the Data Lake and Avoiding the Garbage Dump |year=2016|publisher=Technics Publications|asin=B01DPEGSO4}}
- {{citation |title= Turning Text into Gold: Taxonomies and Textual Analytics |year=2017|publisher=Technics Publications|asin=B01N7OK2SZ}}
- {{citation |title= Turning Spreadsheets into Corporate Data |year=2017|publisher=Technics Publications|isbn=978-1634622288}}
- {{citation |title= Hearing the Voice of the Customer |publisher=Technics Publications|isbn=978-1634623315}}
- {{citation |last1= Inmon|first1=William H.|last2=Puppini|first2=Francesco|title= The Unified Star Schema: An Agile and Resilient Approach to Data Warehouse and Analytics Design |year=2020|publisher=Technics Publications|isbn=978-1634628877}}
- {{citation |last1= Inmon|first1=William H.|last2=Srivastava|first2=Ranjeet|title= The Textual Warehous|year=2020|publisher=Technics Publications|isbn=978-1634629546}}
- {{citation |last1= Inmon|first1=William H.|last2=Levins|first2=Mary|last3=Srivastava|first3=Ranjeet|title= Building the Data Lakehouse|year=2021|publisher=Technics Publications|isbn=978-1634629669}}
See also
- Single version of the truth
- The Kimball lifecycle, a high-level sequence tasks used to design, develop and deploy a data warehouse or business intelligence system
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160116082130/http://www.inmoncif.com/home/ Corporate Information Factory] - Internet Archive's copy of www.inmoncif.com, retrieved on 2016-01-16
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