Join us in Mudd 3514 for a presentation by Henrietta Dombrovskaya, ACM Chicago Chapter Communications Chair and Illinois Prairie Postgres User Group Organizer for an abbreaviated version of the Data Warehousing: The Industrial Perspective tutorial. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A and information about the Northwestern ACM Chicago Student Chapter.

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Tutorial Title

Data Warehousing: The Industrial Perspective

Abstract

"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 do not reflect the most common business needs. In this tutorial, we will closely examine existing business demands and discuss how to support them. In this tutorial, we are going to discuss the data warehousing industry needs and whether these needs are covered by existing commercial offerings. 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."

Presenter

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 Database Architect at DRW Holdings in Chicago, IL. Her research interests are focused on developing efficient interactions between applications and databases and 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-forprofit with the goal to promote Postgres education in the Midwest states of the USA.