Building the Operational Data Store - Hardcover

The data warehouse enables many companies to collect, store, integrate and analyze data rapidly. All major hardware companies and many software companies have announced plans for data warehouse support. As organizations work with data warehouses, they have discovered the usefulness of another structure, which the author of this work calls operational data stores. Operational data stores offer the promise at the operations level that the data warehouse offers at the strategic and managerial levels. The author identifies operational data stores and discusses why the operational data store concept is so crucial in relation to decision-making, data and executive systems data.

W. H. INMON is a principal in Forest Rim Technologies, a consulting firm specializing in the development and operation of data warehouses. He is the author of more than 30 books, and a regular contributor to professional journals. CLAUDIA IMHOFF is a principal of Intelligent Solutions, Inc., where she designs and builds data warehouses and operational data stores. GREG BATTAS works at Tandem Computers where he is a technical expert in the deployment of operational stores.