Data Base Management

Learn About Database Management Systems Raghu Ramakrishnan

With more and more businesses relying on computers and technology taking a very upfront role in businesses both big and small, it is no wonder that companies that are devoted to the database management field (DBMS) are so busy and consequently so successful.

While many of you have probably heard of database management and most people know of its importance to businesses world wide, what many people do not know are the faces behind the data base management that has become so vital to the way business runs these days.

To boil it down, in the world of Database Management Systems Raghu Ramakrishnan is a face that has and still is shaping this important industry.

Raghu Ramakrishnan received his Bachelors of Technology from IIT Madras in 1983 and later went on to earn a PhD from the University of Texas in 1987. Since 1987, he has been member of Database Systems Group in the computer science department at the University of Wisconsin as well as being a co-founder of the University of Wisconsin's Data Mining Institute.

Aside from his academic endeavors, Raghu Ramakrishnan also founded the company QUIQ in 1999. This gave him the ability to put his vast knowledge of the database management system to work in the private sector. With his specialties being software for data retrieval from storage, database integration, development analysis and the application of data mining, QUIQ created new customer support and knowledge management systems for clients like Compaq, Sun Microsystems, as well as a host of other well-known tech companies.

In regards to Database Management Systems Raghu Ramakrishnan has certainly been a leader of that industry in the private sector. With over ten prestigious awards, a widely used database textbook to his name, as well as chairing The Board of Data Management, being a trustee of an endowment organization as well as being editor in chief of The Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery and an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Database Systems, there are few that are as involved in the database industry as Ramakrishnan.

When speaking about Database Management Systems Raghu Ramakrishnan is one of the foremost experts to date. While his business and extra business activities are rather lengthy and involved, it pales in comparison with his knowledge of database systems.

With Database Management Systems, Raghu Ramakrishnan accomplishments and his furthering of this burgeoning technology has made him to many people, the face of database management systems today.