Turning Spreadsheets into Corporate Data - Brossura

Inmon, Bill

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ISBN 10: 1634622286 ISBN 13: 9781634622288

Casa editrice: Technics Publications, 2017

Riassunto

For years, business users have leveraged spreadsheets for storing and communicating data. Although spreadsheets may be easy to create and update, making important corporate decisions based on spreadsheets is risky due to the lack of data credibility. Whether you are a manager, developer, end user, or student, this book will help you turn spreadsheet data into credible, useful, reliable data that can be trusted in order to make important decisions.
A chapter is dedicated to each of the following topics:

• Brief history of spreadsheets
• Spreadsheet paradox
• Spreadsheet varieties
• The PDF spreadsheet
• Spreadsheet formatting
• Spreadsheet disambiguation
• The intermediate database
• The ssdef database
• The corporate database
• The metadata database (mnemonic database)
• Political considerations
• Data modeling and the spreadsheet
• Case study

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Informazioni sull?autore

Bill Inmon - the "father of data warehouse" - has written 57 books published in nine languages. Bill's latest adventure is the building of technology known as textual disambiguation - technology that reads raw text in a narrative format and allows the text to be placed in a conventional database so that it can be analyzed by standard analytical technology, thereby creating unique business value for Big Data/unstructured data. Bill was named by ComputerWorld as one of the ten most influential people in the history of the computer profession. Bill lives in Castle Rock, Colorado. For more information about textual disambiguation refer to www.forestrimtech.com.

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For years, business users have leveraged spreadsheets for storing and communicating data. Although spreadsheets may be easy to create and update, making important corporate decisions based on spreadsheets is risky due to the lack of data credibility. Whether you are a manager, developer, end user, or student, this book will help you turn spreadsheet data into credible, useful, reliable data that can be trusted in order to make important decisions.A chapter is dedicated to each of the following topics: Brief history of spreadsheets Spreadsheet paradox Spreadsheet varieties The PDF spreadsheet Spreadsheet formatting Spreadsheet disambiguation The intermediate database The ssdef database The corporate database The metadata database (mnemonic database) Political considerations Data modeling and the spreadsheet Case study

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Technics Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1634622286
• ISBN 13: 9781634622288
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 130
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile