Data Warehousing For Dummies®, 2nd Edition

About The Author

Tom Hammergren is known worldwide as an innovator, writer, educator, speaker, and consultant in the field of information management. Tom's information management and software career spans more than 20 years and includes key roles in successful business intelligence and information management solution companies such as Cognos, Cincom, and Sybase. Tom is the founder of Balanced Insight, Inc., a leading vendor of business intelligence lifecycle management software and services that also works on innovation in semantically driven business intelligence.

While working for Sybase, Hammergren helped design and develop WarehouseStudio, a comprehensive set of tools for delivering enterprise data warehousing solutions. At Cincom, Tom helped deliver the SupraServer product line to market, one of the first fully distributed data management solutions for highly survivable network implementations. During an earlier position at Cognos, he was one of the founding members of the PowerPlay and Impromptu product teams.

Tom has published numerous articles in industry journals and is the author of two widely read books, Data Warehousing: Building the Corporate Knowledge Base and Official Sybase Data Warehousing on the Internet: Accessing the Corporate Knowledge Base (both from International Thomson Computer Press).