A must-refer list for any BI consultant (non-tool specific)

Ralph Kimball’s website
Bill Inmon’s website
Kimball’s design tips (some fantastic ideas covered here)
DBAzine list of DW articles
The Data Warehousing institute
Ask Tom (He is the God of answering Oracle questions)
Orafaq community (Excellently moderated forum on Oracle)
Oracle community forum (Excellent response for questions)
Gartner (a research firm whose analysis is considered the golden standard of the industry)

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ETL Resources/ websites
My Informatica (Best practises of Informatica, lots of useful content)
Data Integrator forum (Very well maintained forum on Business objects tools)
DI tips and tricks (Business Obj Data Integrator Diamond community)
Informatica Devnet community (Developers community for Informatica)

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BI related blogs and websites

Business Intelligence
DM review
Tim Elliott
Dylan
Mark Madsen
Oracle Sponge
B-eye-network bloggers
OLAP report
Mark Rittman

Intelligent Enterprise

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SQL / PL-SQL / database related blogs and websites
Jonathan Lewis computer consultancy
Oracle SQL tuning guide (Excellent guide for SQL tuning)
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
Anjo Kolk’s blog

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Analysts and rating agencies

Gartner on Business Intelligence

Forrester research

Nucleus research

Bloor research

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BI Vendors
Tera data
Oracle
Microstrategy
Informatica
Hyperion
Cognos
Business Objects

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