REDWOOD CITY, Calif., October 16, 2002 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading provider of business analytics software, today announced a series of Fall seminars and workshops featuring Dr. Ralph Kimball, renowned data warehouse author and architect. Titled “Building a Data Warehouse in a Rapidly Changing Environment,” the seminars will discuss the latest technologies and strategies for building successful data warehousing and business analytics implementations in today's fast-changing business environment.
“I'm delighted to work with Informatica to present essential concepts of dimensional data warehousing to help companies get more from their data warehouses and analytic applications,” said Ralph Kimball, author of 'The Data Warehouse Toolkit' and 'The Data Webhouse Toolkit.' “Properly conceived and implemented analytic solutions yield valuable benefits for today's businesses. With the stakes so high and timeframes so short, companies need to move quickly and get their data warehouse implementations right the first time.”
The seminar series is designed for CIOs, IT managers and other executives. Topics to be covered include central concepts of dimensional modeling; basing data warehouses on incompatible systems; real-time data warehousing; different approaches to tracking complex behaviors; and best design, process and technology decisions.
Locations and dates for the free seminars include:
Dr. Ralph Kimball is known worldwide for his practical and innovative work in dimensional data warehousing as developed in his Data Warehouse Toolkit series of books. He teaches dimensional design for Kimball University, writes for Intelligent Enterprise magazine, and critiques data warehouse design.
About Informatica
Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is the leading provider of business analytics software that helps Global 2000 companies monitor and manage the performance of key business operations across the enterprise. Informatica business analytics products span the entire "build to buy" spectrum, enabling customers to buy packaged analytic applications or build their own best-of-breed data warehousing solutions -- whichever approach best suits their requirements and resources. More than 1,500 companies worldwide are using Informatica data integration software to build and manage data warehouses. For more information, call 1.650.385.5000 (1.800.970.1179 in the U.S.), or visit the Informatica Web site at http://www.informatica.com/.
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