Data Stores, Data Warehousing, and the Zachman Framework: Managing Enterprise Knowledge (Mcgraw-Hill Series on Data Warehousing and Data Management) by William H. Inmon
The Zachman Framework is a framework to organize and analyze data so it can be turned into a source of knowledge. Here is the first and last word on this hot topic from the inventors of the framework. The text explains how companies can apply this technology to their own data warehouses and stores.
William H. Inmon is an American computer scientist, recognized by many as the father of the data warehouse. 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, non-volatile, 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.