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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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2011 Webinars

In our popular Webinar series for 2011, Dr. Ralph Kimball discusses the emerging trends, challenges and opportunities that are impacting business intelligence and data warehousing professionals in a rapidly evolving data environment.

Make Big Data Agile: Improve Reliability & Trustworthiness by Aligning Process & Data
With Big Data, being lean and agile is more critical than ever. Dr. Kimball discusses the linkage between business process & data governance and how to establish, design & execute the governance program for analytic environments.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - Listen to the Replay!

Evolve EDW to become Adaptable Infrastructure for Big Data Analytics
Dr. Ralph Kimball describes the scope and challenges of building and evolving an enterprise data warehouse to meet new business requirements including extreme integration, semi- and unstructured data sources, petabytes of behavioral data accessed through MapReduce and Hadoop, and structuring the EDW to support various styles of business analytics.
Thursday, July 28, 2011 - Listen to the Replay!

Empower Agility by Getting Real about Data Virtualization
Virtualization has been a key topic for IT executives in recent years and is traditionally centered around network or storage virtualization. Dr. Kimball discusses why leading organizations are adopting data virtualization as part of the enterprise virtualization strategy and augmentation to the physical data integration environment.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - Listen to the Replay!

Rethinking EDW in the Era of Expansive Information Management
Data and data source volumes are growing at an astonishing rate. In this first webinar for 2011, Dr. Kimball discusses the new terrain and how the EDW must evolve in this era of expansive information management.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - Listen to the Replay!

White Papers

NEW in 2011! The Evolving Role of the Enterprise Data Warehouse in the Era of Big Data Analytics
The enterprise data warehouse (EDW) community has entered a new realm of meeting new and growing business requirements. Ralph Kimball describes the rapidly evolving landscape for designing an EDW to support business analytics in the era of "Big Data."
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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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Webinar replays

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.
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Modernizing the Enterprise Data Warehouse
Dr. Kimball discusses how organizations are re-architecting their data warehouses for operational efficiency, and responding to explosive new demands for integration, new delivery media, and new archiving requirements.
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Drive End-to-End Data Governance From Your Data Warehouse Foundation
Dr. Kimball discusses how a company’s accumulated data warehouse expertise in data quality assurance, master data management, and metadata provides an excellent foundation for data governance...from original extract to final BI deployment.
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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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