In-Person Event
Northwestern University
Mudd Hall - Room 3514
2233 Tech Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
Data Warehousing - the Industrial Perspective
Like with many other concepts, the theoretical ideas regarding how data warehouses should be organized are rarely followed in real-life systems. The notion of data warehouses as storage for historical, rarely or never changing records used for summary reports, slicing and dicing, and trend analysis does not reflect the most common business needs.
In this talk, we will closely examine existing business needs and demands, and whether existing commercial offerings cover these needs. We will outline some known challenges and discuss how new research could address them. We want to convince attendees that data warehouses are more complicated than they are usually thought of and are therefore interesting as a source of research problems.
Henrietta Dombrovskaya is a database researcher and practitioner with over 40 years of academic and industrial experience. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Saint Petersburg, Russia. At present, she is a Database Architect at DRW Holdings in Chicago, IL. Her research interests are focused on developing efficient interactions between applications and databases and the implementation of temporal data. Henrietta is an active community member, a PostgreSQL Contributor, and a frequent speaker at the PostgreSQL Conferences. She is a founder of Prairie Postgres, a not-for-profit with the goal of promoting Postgres education in the Midwest states of the United States.
We would like to thank the Northwestern University Computer Science Department for making this in-person event possible, and we look forward to seeing you on October 7!