Data architecture: The information paradigm

by William H. Inmon

This book/video package describes what you need to know in order to obtain a high-performance data architecture that offers intense availability, rapid application development, easy maintenance, accurate data and creditable decision-support processing. Details how the optimally designed and properly implemented information environment should look. The information paradigm lets you evaluate present systems and opportunities against a benchmark system, decide on support tools and position your organization to support components of the paradigm not yet in place.

284 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

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.

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