Agile Data Warehousing for the Enterprise

Foreword

Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D., Author of Corporate Information Factory and Mastering Data Warehouse Design

When my friend, Ralph Hughes, asked me to write the foreword to his book, I was thrilled. His deep knowledge of the agile methodology plus his long history of building and maintaining business intelligence and data warehouse environments puts him in a unique position to marry these two critical initiatives together.

And so he has done in his latest book, Agile Data Warehousing for the Enterprise. The book builds upon the foundation established in his previous books on agile data warehousing by setting forth an unambiguous and thorough body of work defining a reliable set of “best practices” for such undertakings. Why are these necessary? ...