Sid Adelman is a Principal in Sid Adelman & Associates, an
organization specializing in planning and implementing Data Warehouses
and in establishing effective data architectures and strategies. He
consulted on Data Warehouse with banks, distribution companies,
utilities, governmental authorities, manufacturing companies,
insurance, and the health care industry. Sid has been involved with
data warehouse and its predecessors before the term itself was coined.
Sid has extensive experience in database performance: modeling
performance, conducting design reviews, measuring performance and
tuning.
He jointly developed a methodology, MapXpert for Data WarehouseÔ
that provides a master plan for implementing Data Warehouse.
Sid has developed, consulted and presented on topics including
"Organizational and Cultural Change to Support Application
Development," "Establishing a Target Application
Environment," "Developing a Data Strategy," and
"What it Takes to Build a Successful Data Warehouse."
He is a regular speaker at DCI's Data Warehouse Conferences in the
"Building a Better Data Warehouse" track and a regular
speaker at IBM's DB2 and Data Warehouse Conference. Sid teaches a one
and two day Data Warehouse Project Management class for IBM and for
The Data Warehouse Institute. He presented at DAMA, GUIDE, and
SHARE/GUIDE in the United States, Australia, the Philippines, and Hong
Kong. He presented at Data Warehouse conferences in Great Britain,
Holland, Germany, Canada and the United States, at the Data Quality
Conference, the Catalog Management Conference and at the Customer
Information System Users and Technical Conference.
Sid is a founding member of the Business Intelligence Alliance
whose members include Colin White, Herb Edelstein, Larry English,
David Foote, Douglas Hackney, Pieter Mimno, Neil Raden and David
Marco. Membership in the Business Intelligence Alliance gives Sid
Adelman & Associates access to the acknowledged best resources in
data warehouse.
Sid chairs the "Ask the Experts" column on
www.dmreview.com.
He is a member of the IBM Gold Group, consultants who participate
in periodic advanced briefings by the IBM developers and labs and
advise IBM on direction for their data products including DB2 and
IBM's Data Warehouse offerings.
Sid has an MBA in Business Economics from UCLA and is a member of
the Life Office Management Association with a specialty in Data
Processing. He is active in the Los Angeles Chapter of the Data
Administration Management Association.
Publications: He wrote articles for Data Base Management Magazine,
ComputerWorld, Database Programming and Design, The Journal of the
Institute of Internal Auditors, Journal of Data Warehousing, Auerbach,
Data Warehouse Report and Sid is a regular contributor to DM Review.
He contributed two chapters to the book Data Warehouse: Practical
Advice from the Experts. The chapters are Organizational and Cultural
Issues of the Data Warehouse and Data Quality. He co-authored Data
Warehouse Project Management with Larissa Moss, published by Addison
Wesley in 2000. He is currently working on Impossible Data Warehouse
Situations with Solutions from the Experts.
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