Filetek Offers Free "Continuing Education" Data
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FileTek, Inc. has announced publication of a 31-page booklet that serves as a "continuing education" for executives about issues related to the design, building, and management of Atomic Data Store (ADS) warehouses and the use of the ADS to make better business decisions.
The pocketsize guide presents information about data warehousing in practical, objective, and understandable terms, the value of storing transactional or atomic data in a type of Data Warehouse called the ADS and includes a glossary of 72 key words and phrases. FileTek sponsored the brochure, which was produced and published by techguide.com, a unit of The Applied Technologies Group of Natick, Massachusetts.
FileTek, Inc. specializes in the economical management and centralized storage of transaction and historical data in relational and non-relational form. StorHouse, the company's flagship software product, serves as the warehouse to capture, store, move and access massive amounts of data for corporations and organizations around the world. This allows businesses of all types to fully understand their business, markets, products and customers.
Copies of the booklet, "Data Warehousing Today: Summaries and Subsets Can't Tell the Whole Story," may be obtained without charge by contacting FileTek by e-mail (tsimms@filetek.com), phone (301-517-1888), or fax (301-251-1990). The text of the brochure may also be downloaded from The Applied Technologies Group Web site (http://www.techguide.com) without charge.
According to a study by the Palo Alto Management Group, in 1997 companies spent nearly $15 billion on data warehouses worldwide, a figure that is expected to increase at a rate of more than 50% each year, reaching $113 billion by 2002. In a recent study of American businesses, conducted by Data Quest, almost 60% of respondents have or plan to build a Data Warehouse.
Moreover, the amount of data that is stored and used by corporations and organizations is growing at a phenomenal rate. "Overall, their rate for the creation of new data will increase by 50% a year for the next ten years," said Bill Inmon, the "father" of the data warehousing concept.
John Burgess, FileTek's chief technology officer, said, "the good news is that companies are taking steps to harness and use the data they generate. But unless executives know what they are doing when they design and build data warehouses, their time, money and efforts could be wasted. This guide provides some of the important tools and insights they need to help take the right steps and to make the right decisions."
The pamphlet is part of a series of efforts by FileTek to educate and inform business executives on the mission-critical nature of data warehousing and solutions that allow them to store and manage years of transactional and customer data, not summaries and aggregations.
This spring the company is co-sponsoring a national series of data warehousing seminars that will be conducted by Bill Inmon. In addition to speaker-led discussions, the two-day events will feature case studies, technical presentations and question-and-answer sessions that will provide critical information geared towards executives who are responsible for enterprise resource planning and the management, design and development of data warehouses.
The seminars will be held April 6-7 in Denver, Colorado; April 8-9 in Seattle, Washington; May 3-4 in St. Louis, Missouri; May 6-7 in Newark, New Jersey; May 11-12 in Chicago, Illinois; May 13-14 in Dallas, Texas; and May 20-21 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
For more information about the sessions, contact Kiva Productions by phone (1-800-989-8899), fax (303-614-8255) or e-mail (seminars@kivaproductions.com).
FileTek develops, markets and supports integrated data storage and access management solutions that help organizations meet their business intelligence needs. The company's products are integral parts of the banking, investment, telecommunications, transportation, and utilities industries, as well as the Federal government.
The Applied Technologies Group's techguide.com is supported by a consortium of leading technology providers. techguide.com writes, produces and publishes guides that discuss the use and implementation of emerging technologies.
Additional information about FileTek is available on the company's Web site at http://www.filetek.com or by calling its headquarters office at 301-251-0600.