About the Authors
Ralph Kimball, Ph.D., founder of the Kimball Group, has been a leading visionary in the data warehouse industry since 1982 and is one of today's most well-known speakers, consultants, teachers, and writers. His books include The Data Warehouse Toolkit (Wiley, 1996), The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit (Wiley, 1998), The Data Webhouse Toolkit (Wiley, 2000), and The Data Warehouse Toolkit, Second Edition (Wiley, 2002). He also has written for Intelligent Enterprise magazine since 1995, receiving the Readers' Choice Award since 1999.
Ralph earned his doctorate in electrical engineering at Stanford University with a specialty in man-machine systems design. He was a research scientist, systems development manager, and product marketing manager at Xerox PARC and Xerox Systems' Development Division from 1972 to 1982. For his work on the Xerox Star Workstation, the first commercial product with windows, icons, and a mouse, he received the Alexander C. Williams award from the IEEE Human Factors Society for systems design. From 1982 to 1986 Ralph was Vice President of Applications at Metaphor Computer Systems, the first data warehouse company. At Metaphor, Ralph invented the "capsule" facility, which was the first commercial implementation of the graphical data flow interface now in widespread use in all ETL tools. From 1986 to 1992 Ralph was founder and CEO of Red Brick Systems, a provider of ultra-fast relational database technology dedicated to decision support. In 1992 ...
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