Data warehousing has become one of the hot topics of the 1990s, and there are no signs of a slowdown as more corporations plan to implement data warehouses for decision support, marketing analysis and other functions. Combining databases, graphical user interfaces and sophisticated data modeling software, data warehouses are changing the way data is used in corporate information systems.
A plenary session will be offered at UniForum '96 in San Francisco, CA, on Friday, Feb. 16. The session will be chaired by Rebel Brown, president of Cognoscenti of Mountain View, CA. Speakers will include Chris Erickson, president and ceo of Red Brick Systems of Los Gatos, CA; Steve Sommer, vice president of marketing at Informix in Menlo Park, CA; Sterling Makishima, data warehouse manager at Hewlett-Packard in Cupertino, CA; and Tsvi Gal, senior vice president and chief technology officer at Bank of America in San Francisco.
End-users on the panel will discuss the various ways that they have benefited from data warehouse implementations, with a special emphasis on "what really works" for enterprise information systems. Data warehouse vendors will provide a survey of the products they offer today, as well as the products being developed for tomorrow.