William H. Inmon Biography

Bill Inmon, is recognized as the "father of the data warehouse" and co-creator of the "Corporate Information Factory." He has 35 years of experience in database technology management and data warehouse design. He is known globally for his seminars on developing data warehouses and has been a keynote speaker for every major computing association and many industry conferences,
seminars, and tradeshows.

As an author, Bill has written about a variety of topics on the building, usage, and maintenance of the data warehouse and the Corporate Information Factory. He has written more than 650 articles, many of them have been published in major computer journals such as Datamation, ComputerWorld, and Byte Magazine. Bill is currently a columnist with Data Management Review, and has been since its inception. He has published 45 books; one sold over half a million copies, 21 have been book club selections with publishers such as Prentice-Hall, John Wiley, and QED. Translations of various books have been done in Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.