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2012. Made fellow of the Computer History Museum "for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence and expert systems." [22] 2013. IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award for "pioneering work in Artificial Intelligence, including development of the basic principles and methods of knowledge-based systems and their practical applications".
Ralph Kimball (born July 18, 1944 [1]) is an author on the subject of data warehousing and business intelligence.He is one of the original architects of data warehousing and is known for long-term convictions that data warehouses must be designed to be understandable and fast.
Business intelligence (BI) consists of strategies, methodologies, and technologies used by enterprises for data analysis and management of business information. [1] Common functions of BI technologies include reporting, online analytical processing, analytics, dashboard development, data mining, process mining, complex event processing, business performance management, benchmarking, text ...
Business intelligence software is a type of application software designed to retrieve, analyze, transform and report data for business intelligence (BI). The applications generally read data that has been previously stored, often - though not necessarily - in a data warehouse or data mart .
The Kimball lifecycle is a methodology for developing data warehouses, and has been developed by Ralph Kimball and a variety of colleagues. The methodology "covers a sequence of high level tasks for the effective design, development and deployment" of a data warehouse or business intelligence system. [1]
Utilising the DW/BI system is the final step before business users gain access to the information. The first impression the business community gets is when introduced to the BI frontend drives. Because acceptance from users is important, the deployment must be thoughtfully planned to ensure that the DW/BI system can perform and deliver the ...
The bus matrix purpose is one of high abstraction and visionary planning on the data warehouse architectural level. By dictating coherency in the development and implementation of an overall data warehouse the bus architecture approach enables an overall vision of the broader enterprise integration and consistency while at the same time dividing the problem into more manageable parts [2 ...
Cognos Incorporated was an Ottawa, Ontario-based company making business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) software.Founded in 1969, at its peak Cognos employed almost 3,500 people and served more than 23,000 customers in over 135 countries until being acquired by IBM on January 31, 2008. [1]