Information Management

William is President of McKnight Consulting Group (www.mcknightcg.com). He is an internationally recognized authority in information management. His consulting work has included many of the Global 2000 and numerous midmarket companies. His teams have won several best practice competitions for their implementations and many of his clients have gone public with their success stories. His strategies form the information management plan for leading companies in various industries.William is a very popular speaker worldwide and a prolific writer with hundreds of articles and white papers published. William is a distinguished entrepreneur, and a former Fortune 50 technology executive and software engineer. He provides clients with strategies, architectures, platform and tool selection, and complete programs to manage information.

• Part 1: No Matter What Business You’re In, You’re in the Business of Information Chapter 1. Relational Theory in Practice: Data Warehouses and Data Marts Chapter 2. Business Intelligence is Everywhere and You’re in the Business of Analytics Chapter 3. Data Quality: Passing the Standard Part 2: Beyond the Data Warehouse Chapter 4. Data Warehouse Appliances and Columnar Approaches Chapter 5. Master Data Management Chapter 6. Data Stream Processing Chapter 7. Data Virtualization Chapter 8. Syndicated Data Part 3: Big Data Chapter 9. Hadoop: Analytics at Scale Chapter 10. Key-Value Stores, Document Stores, and Column Stores Chapter 11. Graph Databases Chapter 12. Cloud Computing Part 4: Putting it all Together Chapter 13. An Elegant Architecture Where Information Flows Chapter 14. Collaboration, Mobile and Self-Service Chapter 15. Information Security Chapter 16. Agile Approaches, Specifically SCRUM Chapter 17. Organizational Change Management

Priase for Information Management:"This is an excerpt from the first chapter of Information Management: Strategies for Gaining a Competitive Advantage with Data, written by William McKnight…he addresses the relationship between information management and business value, explores data management technologies, and offers advice on maximizing the potential of enterprise information." --SearchDataManagement.com, March 31, 2014"…overall it does provide some very useful information and guidance that could be used as part of a preparation and planning exercise towards developing a suitable data and information management strategy… it would make a suitable first guide for anyone who has been given the task of developing such a scheme, and might help to clarify some of the key issues in such a way as to make the task a little bit easier." Score: 7 out of 10 --BCS.org, April 2014"William McKnight has delivered a very clear and concise explanation about how to get the most from your organization’s data. He steps the reader through an assortment of data processing technologies and approaches and show which deliver the best ROI for which types of workloads. This is a desperately needed mapping that many users will find invaluable!"--Wayne Eckerson, business intelligence thought leader and president of Eckerson Group, a business-technology management consulting firm specializing in BI, performance management, and analytics"A blueprint and action plan for a corporate information management strategy, this book is a useful guide for anyone who wishes to improve business success with technology. Author William McKnight provides the foundation and tools for information managers to set policies and programs for the improved management of information, while addressing advances in architecture and technology principles."--Julie Langenkamp-Muenkel, Editorial Director of Information-Management.com"I always enjoy William’s writing, especially his balance between inspiring foresight and pragmatic advice rooted in real-world experience. He has skillfully shown that poise again: with his guidance you’ll find Information Management transforms what can be a burdensome responsibility into an insightful practice." --Donald Farmer, VP Product Management, qlikview.com"Many claim we're in the golden age of data management; every traditional paradigm and approach seems to have a newer, better, and faster alternative. This book provides a terrific overview of the new class of technologies that must be integrated into every CIO's technology plan." --Evan Levy, Co-Author, Customer Data Integration: Reaching a Single Version of the Truth"Big data is no longer just an IT topic. It’s one that’s now top-of-mind for executives, too. William McKnight takes the increasingly knotty hairball of information management—its practices, technologies, and skills—and unravels it in this timely and relevant book. A must-read for business and IT pros alike." --Jill Dyché, SAS Vice President and author of The New IT"I challenge any Information Management professional to not get value from this book. William covers a range of topics, and has so much knowledge he is able to offer usable insights across them all. The book is unique in the way it provides such a solid grounding for anyone making architectural or process decisions in the field of information management, and should be required reading for organizations looking to understand how newer approaches and technologies can be used to enable better decision making." --Michael Whitehead, CEO and Co-Founder, WhereScape Software