Resources

Barry wrote the first published article describing a data warehouse architecture in 1988, based on his work in IBM Europe's internal IT division in the preceding years.

• “An architecture for a business and information system”, B. A. Devlin, P. T. Murphy, IBM Systems Journal, Volume 27, Number 1, Page 60 (1988)

One the seminal books on data warehousing, Barry's 1997 book contains a wealth of architectural and practical information. It continues to be relevant today and has sold over 10,000 copies.

• “Data Warehouse—from Architecture to Implementation”, Barry Devlin, Addison-Wesley, (1997)

In recent years, Barry has written a number of series of White Papers for IBM on the emergence of new trends in collaborative computing and the emergence of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), with particular emphasis on the implications for how IT will support business in the future.

• “The evolution of Office Work”, Barry Devlin, IBM White Paper Series, (2005-06)
• “Opening the door to a service oriented architecture”, Barry Devlin, IBM White Paper, (2006)
• “IBM portal and collaboration products switch on SOA”, Barry Devlin, IBM White Paper, (2006)
• “First steps to SOA—enabling rapid crisis response and driving business innovation”, Barry Devlin et al., IBM White Paper, (2007)

Barry is a regular contributer to the UK edition of B-Eye Network. The following series of papers can be found on his Articles Page:

• “Business Intelligence is Dead – Long Live the Highly Evolved Business, 3-part series”, Barry Devlin, (2007)
• “Web 2.0 and the Highly Evolved Business, 3-part series”, Barry Devlin, (2007)
• “Intelligent Integration Depends on Business Intelligence, 2-part series”, Barry Devlin, (2007)

Previous publications include:

• “Defining the Role of Enterprise Information Integration”, Barry Devlin and Holly Hayes, IBM Database Magazine, (2003)
• “Solving the Data Warehouse Puzzle”, Barry Devlin, IBM Database Magazine, (2003)
• “Middleware, replication and the data warehouse”, Barry Devlin, MiddlewareSpectra, (1995)
• “From Data Model to Data Warehouse — in bite-sized chunks!”, Barry Devlin, InfoDB, (1995)
• “Data Warehouse: Real substance beneath the popular concept”, Barry Devlin, American Programmer, (1995)
• “Managing Time in the Data Warehouse”, Barry Devlin, Journal of Data Warehousing, TDWI, (1997)