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Informatica has teamed up with Dr. Ralph Kimball and the Kimball Group to provide you with the latest, most innovative information on data warehousing. Here’s your one-stop shop for new data warehousing strategies, approaches, and techniques. Be sure to:
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Dr. Ralph Kimball, founder of the Kimball Group, is known worldwide for his practical and innovative work in dimensional data warehousing. Since the mid 1980s, Dr. Kimball has been the data warehouse/business intelligence industry’s thought leader on the dimensional approach and trained more than 10,000 IT professionals. He developed the 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. Prior to working at Metaphor and founding Red Brick Systems, he co-invented the Star workstation at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Dr. Kimball has a doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

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2010 Webinars

Realizing the Potential of a Data-Driven Enterprise
Dr. Ralph Kimball outlines the basic requirements of and pragmatic tips for transforming your organization into a data-driven enterprise.
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EDW Best Practices for Behavior Analytics to Attract & Retain Customers
Dr. Kimball discusses extending EDW to meet the challenges and opportunities posed by customer behavior, including: architectural considerations and strategies, methodologies and performance enhancement techniques, and analytics techniques.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
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Tuning EDW for Operational Efficiency and Modernization
Dr. Ralph Kimball examines ways to optimize your enterprise data warehouse to ensure peak operational efficiency and modernization.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

What the CIO Wants & Needs from the DW/BI Team
The Kimball Group discusses CIOs’ key goals and objectives and outlines the you, as a business intelligence/data warehousing professional, can help your CIO achieve them, enhancing your visibility in the organization.
October, 2010

Webinar replays

Reverse the Flow of Data Warehouse Design to Ensure Success
Dr. Ralph Kimball explains why starting the data warehouse with foundational technology is likely to fail. He identifies the risks and describes the steps and criteria for success.
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The Enterprise Data Warehouse: The Platform for Pervasive BI
Dr. Ralph Kimball describes how the enterprise data warehouse must be built to allow truly pervasive business intelligence.
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Drive Data Quality with Metadata
Dr. Ralph Kimball explains why metadata management is crucial to driving the improvement and visibility of data quality.
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An Action Plan for Aligning Your EDW and MDM Projects
Dr. Ralph Kimball gives his perspective on advances in enterprise data integration and data quality. He explains how your IT organization can meet the demands of accessing a large volume of data while providing the business with up-to-date information in real time.
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Transform Your DW to EDW: Ten Areas to Examine before You Leap
Dr. Ralph Kimball identifies essential roles in building an integrated enterprise data warehouse. He explains how enterprise data warehousing builds on MDM and SOA initiatives.
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EDW/BI Lifecycle: From Business Requirements to Business Results
Dr. Ralph Kimball describes the key phases of the enterprise data warehouse/business intelligence lifecycle. He provides a checklist of what an EDW/BI team must do to support decisions effectively.
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Real-Time Operational Data Warehouses Built on a Service Oriented Architecture
Dr. Ralph Kimball decodes the complex vocabulary of SOA and proposes specific SOA services appropriate for an enterprise data warehouse.
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The Architecture of Data Quality
Dr. Ralph Kimball shows you how to control and measure data quality. He describes two back room processes that, when applied to a DW/BI environment, can help your organization establish a six-sigma data quality standard of excellence.
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White Papers

Essential Steps for the Integrated EDW
Dr. Ralph Kimball proposes a specific architecture for building an integrated enterprise data warehouse. This architecture supports MDM efforts and provides the platform for consistent business analysis across the enterprise.
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An Architecture for Data Quality
Dr. Ralph Kimball explains how providing an in-house infrastructure to maintain high-quality data enables data owners to realize cost savings and improve decision-making and customer service.
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