AM6: Architecting for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing - Integrating the Structured and Unstructured Worlds

This tutorial is the definitive guide that will overview how to integrate both structured and unstructured information that permeates throughout every organization. It will show in a simple straight-forward fashion how to tap into the rich sources of data that need to be managed in order to truly capture your enterprise data assets, to optimize your data warehousing and business intelligence capabilities.

The presentation introduces the next data revolution: unstructured data management. It will cover all you need to know to make unstructured data work for your organization. You will learn how to bring it into your existing structured data environment, leverage existing analytical infrastructure, and implement textual analytic processing technologies to solve new problems and uncover new opportunities, including the powerful role of new ways to integrate textual data into data warehouses, and new SQL techniques for reading and analyzing text, whether in emails or spreadsheets, word documents or Communities of Interest (COI) web data.

William Inmon, President and Chief Technology Officer, Forest Rim Technology, has been best known as “The Father of Data Warehousing”. In addition, he has been a leading authority on the "World of Unstructured Data", and How to Integrate with the traditional information and databases. In addition to authoring more than 50 books and 650 articles, Bill holds 7 software patents, and has been a monthly columnist with the Business Intelligence Network. As creator of the Government Information Factory and the Corporate Information Factory, Bill was named by Computerworld as one of the ten most influential people in the first 40 years of the computer profession.