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Ralph Kimball, founder of the Kimball Group, is known worldwide for his practical and innovative work in dimensional data warehousing as
developed in his Data Warehouse Toolkit series of books, the all time best sellers in the field. He teaches dimensional data warehouse design
for Kimball University and critiques data warehouse designs. Dr. Kimball founded Red Brick Systems in 1986 and was CEO until 1992 when he
founded Ralph Kimball Associates. Red Brick Systems, now owned by IBM, is known for its lightning fast relational database optimized for
data warehousing. From 1982 to 1986, Dr. Kimball was vice president of applications at Metaphor Computer Systems, the first data warehouse
vendor. From 1972 to 1982 he was a research scientist and development manager at Xerox PARC where he was a co-inventor of the Xerox Star
Workstation, the first commercial product to use a mouse, icons and windows. Dr. Kimball has a PhD. from Stanford in electrical engineering
(man-machine systems).
Click here to read more about Ralph Kimball and the Kimball Group!
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2008 Kimball On-line Event Series
Informatica is proud to present a series of Webinars by Dr. Kimball exploring the key challenges of building a truly effective enterprise data warehouse.
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Listen to this podcast where Dr. Kimball discusses the different steps to examine before you transform your DW to an EDW.
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Transform Your DW to EDW - 10 Areas to Examine before You Leap [February 12, 2008, 10:30am PST/1:30pm ET]
Integration has become the dominant theme in the design of the enterprise data warehouse (EDW). Join Dr. Ralph Kimball on February 12 as he decomposes the formidable challenge of designing a fully integrated EDW into ten actionable criteria, including dealing with “frozen” OLTP systems, incompatible business rules, conflicting security and privacy issues, and international currencies, time zones, and physical addresses.
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2007 Kimball On-line Event Series
Informatica is proud to present a series of Webinars by Dr. Kimball exploring the key challenges of building a truly effective enterprise data warehouse.
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Listen to this podcast where Dr. Kimball overviews the series.
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Listen to a podcast where Dr. Kimball discusses the upcoming webinar Data Stewardship and Governance of the Enterprise Data Warehouse.
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Data Stewardship and Governance of the Enterprise Data Warehouse with Dr. Ralph Kimball
In this webinar Dr. Kimball will describe the main responsibilities of data governance including: master data, metadata, transaction data, data warehouse data, unstructured data, externally acquired data, security data, compliance data, and all the procedures and transforms that protect, manipulate, and present the data.
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Listen to a podcast where Dr. Kimball discusses the the following webinar on real time requirements:
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Real Time Operational Enterprise Data Warehouses Webinar Replay with Dr. Ralph Kimball
In this webinar replay Dr. Kimball describes significant architectural changes and unique business rules provoked by the real time requirement that affect all the phases of extract, transform, load, and final BI delivery. He will propose an exact definition of "real time" systems, and will describe how a true zero latency system could be built.
Please note the podcast only introduces the topic in the webinar and is NOT the actual webinar
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Listen to a podcast where Dr. Kimball discusses the following webinar on the challenges around Data Quality.
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The Architecture of Data Quality Replay with Ralph Kimball
Dr. Kimball will describe an important breakthrough in measuring, controlling, and improving data quality in the EDW. He will introduce two new back-room processes that allow large enterprises to see a comprehensive picture of their data quality and drive toward classic "six-sigma" data quality control.
[Please note the podcast only introduces the topics in the webinar and is NOT the actual webinar]
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Building the Enterprise Data Warehouse Webinar Replay with Dr. Ralph Kimball
Integrating the far flung data assets of the enterprise has emerged as the #1 challenge of building an EDW. Join Dr. Kimball as he shows where to apply business judgment, technology, and careful management in the right proportions to effectively integrate the enterprise.
[Please note the podcast only introduces the topics in the webinar and is NOT the actual webinar]
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