Web Warehousing and Knowledge Management (Enterprise Computing...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 576 pages
• Published by: Mcgraw-Hill Tx July 19, 1999
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0070411034
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0070411036
• Book Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.8 x 1.5 inches
• Weighs: 2.6 pounds

Product Review
Your organization may have a collection of Internet resources that rake in customer information by the basketful, but to realize a real return on the investment, you need a way to store, organize, and analyze that raw information, and then act upon the analysis. Web Data Warehousing and Knowledge Management is a great orientation to the capabilities of data warehousing technologies.

Rob Mattison cuts through the hype that surrounds data warehousing and data analysis; he explores the software tools that provide the ability--IQ and Aperio--and he reviews IBM's various data mining tools. This book--particularly the section on Online Analytical Processing [OLAP] reports--cries out for information on putting Extensible Markup Language (XML) to work in data warehouse applications. But that's a small shortcoming. If you're working on a Web-centric data warehouse, or even thinking about one, you'll absorb the information here in a flash. --David Wall

Book Description
Hot topic in the industry--Web sites, intranets, and extranets are the new suppliers to data warehouses. Companies have found that the Web is a great source for data about consumers and business partners, and they are scrambling to hook their data warehouse to the Web. Oracle, Informix, and Sybase have rushed to rollout Web data warehouse packages. Best-selling author, Rob Mattison, explains the applications, architecture, and implementation issues of Web data warehousing. This book is about the tools that people use to find patterns within a database stored on the Internet which can be shared with suppliers, customers.

Reader Reviews
I was looking for a book that would cut through the techno-speak and insider jargon and give me a digestible and useful understanding of the Web and knowledge management by business today. Mr. Mattison's text did just that, plus gave me additional context that made the subject more understandable in its driving dynamics. This is a great book that you can sit down with and read for a half hour and feel that you have actually gained a lot for that investment of valuable time, instead of feeling more overwhelmed and confused than when you sat down. I recommend this text to others. It's good to find a guy who talks to you in the pages like a friend and not a pedantic university professor. There's much to intimidate the beginner or even the journeyman about the Internet, telecomm and the knowledge revolution - having some cookie-cutter patterns (paradigms) to make sense of this and see where it came from and where it's going is essential. Comment | | (Report this)