Posted by Martyn R Jones on September 20, 2001 at 05:19:46:

In Reply to: Re: Datawarehouse performance issues posted by Reilly Atkinson on September 19, 2001 at 21:29:47:

Hello Reilly,

You are, of course right, and talking up Bill Inmon as the father of DW is as much a marketing ploy as anything else - i.e. I was happily building DWs with "real users" way back in the early 80's so I guess the idea of IT oriented DW has been along for much longer.

What I see as being a key factor in the evolution in the use of DW type solution in corporates is the relative cheapness of disks and memory, the greater power of CPUs, the ability to combine CPUs, memory and disks in parallel processing architectures and the relative stability of operating systems to hold all this together and suppoer a workload.

But many, many DW projects still fail because, although the technology can support them, and the price of the technology is okay, many DWs are built by IT who inately "know" what the business needs (adequate, appropriate, timely or not). Many IT organizations, even the ones that laud the praises of KM, become almost autistic (is that the right word?) when it comes to talking and listening, especially to people who like to explain what they want in business terms, without the IT jargon.

Cheers,

Martyn

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