About the Authors

W. H. Inmon, the father of data warehousing, has written 49 books translated into nine languages. Bill founded and took public the world’s first ETL software company. He has written over 1000 articles and published in most major trade journals.

Bill has conducted seminars and spoken at conferences on every continent except Antarctica. He holds nine software patents. His latest company is Forest Rim Technology, a company dedicated to the access and integration of unstructured data into the structured world. Bill’s web site—inmoncif.com—attracts over 1,000,000 visitors a month. His weekly newsletter at b-eye-network.com is one of the most widely read in the industry and goes out to 75,000 subscribers each week.

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