We’re sponsoring an important webinar series along with Sun/MySQL starting this week on June 25^th – The Kimball Group Data Warehousing Educational Webinar Series.  This webinar series will introduce the audience to data warehousing concepts and best practices, and will cover the history and evolution of data warehousing, provide an overview of dimensional modeling, and review the full life cycle of designing and implementing a data warehouse.  Part 1, on June 25^th at 1:00P PDT, is on Data Warehousing Fundamentals.

There are two key reasons why we think this webinar series is important:

• First, we believe this webinar further advances data warehousing in the MySQL world. There is a whole new generation of database developers in the MySQL community that are at various stages of understanding data warehousing – what it is, why they would consider it, and how best to get started. One of the key benefits of this webinar series will be to explain why someone would build a data warehouse at all and then how to go about it with a specific emphasis on leveraging MySQL and open source.
• Second, this webinar will further evangelize MySQL and open source in the data warehousing world. The more traditional data warehousing market is early in its understanding of MySQL and open source. This webinar will help these practitioners better understand the benefits and practical implications of MySQL and open source data warehousing and business intelligence tools.

 In this way, we’re doing our best to cross-pollinate the two environments – MySQL and Data Warehousing – so that each can learn from and benefit the other. 

According to Gartner Group’s annual survey of 1500 CIO’s, data warehousing and business intelligence is once again the #1 spending priority – for the fourth year in a row.  While data warehousing and business intelligence have been around for decades now, these concepts are relatively new to the MySQL and open source communities.  As more and more businesses – especially web-based businesses that built their infrastructure on the LAMP stack – are beginning to analyze the information they have been generating and collecting, it’s important to consider the best practices developed over the years around reporting and analytics.

This webinar series will provide very practical methodology and implementation advice and best practices from one of the most well-known consulting groups in the data warehouse business.  The Kimball Group provides education, training, and consulting on data warehousing and business intelligence.  Founded in 2003 by Ralph Kimball, who is considered to be one of most well-known and well-regarded figures in the industry, the Kimball Group specializes in dimensional modeling techniques including the “star schema” concept, which is designed to optimize data warehousing usability and performance.

Upcoming webinars in this educational series will include Data Warehouse Data Modeling on September 10^th and Data Warehouse Lifecycle Management on October 6^th.  Both Kickfire and Sun/MySQL look forward to your participation and feedback on this important educational webinar series.

Tags: data warehousing, dimensional modeling, Kickfire, kimball group, MySQL, ralph kimball, Sun

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