Links & resources

BI / DWH / ETL / OLAP related websites

• Ralph Kimball’s website
• Kimball’s design tips
• Bill Inmon’s website
• Business Objects Data Services
• Business Objects Data Services tips & tricks Wiki by Werner Daehn (Login needed)
• My Informatica (Best practises of Informatica, lots of useful content)
• DBAzine list of DW articles
• The Data Warehousing institute
• Business Intelligence
• DM review
• BI Best Practises
• SAP Business Objects webinars

BI / DWH / ETL / OLAP related forums

• Ralph Kimball’s forum
• Business Objects Information management forum
• Data Integrator forum (Very well maintained forum on Business objects tools)
• Informatica Devnet community (Developers community for Informatica)

BI / DWH / ETL / OLAP related blogs

• Tim Elliott
• Dylan
• Mark Madsen
• Oracle Sponge
• B-eye-network bloggers

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Database / SQL / PL-SQL related forums

• Ask Tom (He is the God of answering Oracle questions)
• Orafaq community (Excellently moderated forum on Oracle)
• Oracle community forum (Excellent response for questions)

Database / SQL / PL-SQL related blogs

• Jonathan Lewis computer consultancy
• Steve Feuerstein’s online world
• Jonathan Lewis’ blog
• Tom Kyte’s blog
• Cary Milsap (author of Optimizing Oracle Performance)
• H.Tonguc Ilmaz’s blog
• Tanel Poder’s blog
• Extreme Experts (good site for SQL Server and other Microsoft tools)
• Vinod Kumar’s blog (Microsoft Tech Evangelist)

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SAP related websites

• SAP help portal
• SAP Innovation Center
• JonERP (Very useful content for SAP consultants.)
• SearchSAP @ Techtarget
• ERP Genie

SAP related forums

• SAP SDN

SAP related blogs

• Jonathan Reed on SAP consulting and the market for SAP products
• Michael Koch (Pixelbase)

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BI research and rating agencies

• Gartner (a research firm whose analysis is considered the golden standard of the industry)

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BI Vendors

• Tera data
• Oracle
• Microstrategy
• Informatica
• Hyperion
• Cognos
• SAP (Also Business Objects)

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Websites under review (will be added to the above lists if I find them interesting)

• Data Migration pro
• 10 things

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