Bill Inmon

William H. Inmon, born July 20, 1945, is an American computer scientist widely recognized as the 'Father of the Data Warehouse' for pioneering the concept and formalizing its definition in the 1990s[1][2]. He authored over 60 books published in nine languages, held the first data warehousing conference, and developed the Corporate Information Factory (CIF) model that shaped modern enterprise data management[2][4].