BI/DWH Resources - Where to look for what

My inaugural post and a relatively staid one first up!

If there is one question I have been asked more often that any other in my professional career it is: "Where can I learn more about BI/DWH?" So here goes - these are my recommendations, feel free you add yours via the comments!

Books:
There are quite a few choices here, but I have consciously avoided any vendor-specific books and have tried to incorporate a selection that encompasses the entire gamut of the BI space.

1. The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit by Kimball, Reeves, Ross and Thorhthwaite
2. Building The Data Warehouse by Bill Inmon
3. Business Intelligence Roadmap: The Complete Project Lifecycle for Decision-Support Applications by Larissa T. Moss, Shaku Atre
4. Business Intelligence: The Savvy Managers Guide by David Loshin
5. Competing on analytics by Thomas H. Davenport
6. Information Dashboard Design by Stephen Few
7. The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence by Steve Williams and Nancy Williams


Websites:
These are the sites I use most often (in no particular order), there are several others that are excellent in narrower areas, but that is for another day.

1. B Eye Network
2. TDWI
3. DW IT Toolbox and BI IT Toolbox
4. DM Review
5. Ralph Kimball
6. Intelligent Enterprise
7. Business Intelligence
8. DW Infocenter

White Papers and others:
Daniel Lemire

While all the above are good as guides and references, nothing can replace someone actually sitting with you for some time and walking you through an introduction; assuming you subsequently follow up by actually working on a project to implement what you have learnt.

Have a good day!

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