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Who are the true thought leaders in Business Intelligence?
BI is an emerging trend, and a lot of people are proclaiming themselves as thought leaders and experts in the space. I'm curious to know who you think are the true thought leaders in the Business Intelligence space. How can you read more about what these people are saying?
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I am biased of course, but I will answer your second question:
You can follow Bill Inmon by subscribing to his newsletter through B-Eye-Network.com
You can follow Dr. Kimball by signing up for his newsletter and following his posts at kimball university
You can follow a number of other "experts" at B-eye-network.com.
You can follow a group of talented folks at boulder-BI-brain trust (lead by Claudia Imhoff), where they give their opinions of the latest software releases and advances.
You can follow me (although I'm a self-proclaimed expert), at http://danLinstedt.com
Sorry for the biased answers, There are many others in the field who are wonderful and full of knowledge. You can check InformationWeek, and CIO Magazine, Teradata Magazine, DMReview, TDWI.org, and of course twitter.
Hope this helps a little bit.
Dan Linstedt
The great thing about the business intelligence community is we have a wide array of experts. There are analysts with both big company ties and independents. Consultants play a real world expert role and there are academics as well.
I think all of them make for a potent blend of knowledge and insight. If you would like to be a fly on the wall among all of these types of people try the list I maintain at http://snipr.com/apr8z it has over 180 twitter accounts all focused on BI and it includes all the above.
A thought leader is more than a recognized leader in a field of knowledge. A consultant is not necessarily a thought leader. Thought leadership means generating new ideas and taking the field in new, interesting directions.
Bill Inmon and Claudia Imhoff are still contributing new interesting ideas. Ralph Kimball is worth a check. The big question is why you want to find the "true" thought leaders. Do you want to innovate, be on the bleeding edge, take a risk with new technologies OR ...?
My suggestion is to read and listen and see whose thoughts interest you.
Speaking of leaders in the area of BI, we are obliged to mention Bill Inmon, Claudia Himhoff and Ralph Kimball, however, this is the part of pure theory to solve practical business issues, there are additionally recognized several authors of books already available .
When businesses need to apply the theory are confronted with the reality of the technology, since each firm resolves hardware and software with its own problematic technological, when in reality you live with different suppliers. This is critical, because if one is not documented well in theory, technological problems are more complex.
Another important point is that in real life the theory does not necessarily apply, so it would be understandable that we seek people with some experience in BI, but mainly with a profile of the company's money we need, such as insurance, financial services or manufacturing.
I would say the main 3 are Ralph Kimball, Bill Inmon and Howard Dresner.
Ralph Kimball is known worldwide as an innovator, writer, educator, speaker and consultant in the field of data warehousing. He has maintained his long-term conviction that data warehouses must be designed to be understandable and fast. His books on dimensional design techniques have become best sellers in data warehousing. To date Ralph has written more than 100 articles and columns for Intelligent Enterprise and its predecessors, winning the Readers’ Choice Award five years in a row.
Similarly to Ralph Kimball, Bill Inmon was another name that graces BI discussions everywhere quite regularly. Inmon, a world-renowned expert, speaker and author on data warehousing, is widely recognized as the “Father of Data Warehousing”. In addition to authoring more than 50 books and 650 articles, Bill has been a monthly columnist with the Business Intelligence Network, EIM Institute and Data Management Review. In 2007, Bill was named by Computerworld as one of the “Ten IT People Who Mattered in the Last 40 Years” of the computer profession.
Howard Dresner is an industry acclaimed expert, noted author, thought leader and lecturer for Business Intelligence, and Enterprise Performance Management. He spent 13 years at Gartner, where he served as lead analyst for Business Intelligence. Today as President and Founder of Dresner Advisory Services, he focuses his energy on creating and sharing thought leadership for Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Business Intelligence (BI) and speaks at forums around the globe.
You might find it interesting to read this article where some good sources of BI info are discussed: http://bimehq.com/business-intelligence/resources-business-intelligence-news/
Daren Cox, is an acknowledged thought leader on the subject of Business Intelligence within the Financial Services Industry. His consultancy specialises in the niche product 'QlikView' which has enjoyed stellar success in the market since enterring the Gartner Magic Quadrent: http://www.a-teamgroup.com/article/project-brokers-cox-highlights-ref-data-an...
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