About the Authors
George Spofford is a Distinguished Engineer at Hyperion Solutions, Inc. He has been developing OLAP server and client software since 1998, when he led the development of FreeThink, one of the first desktop multidimensional modelling and analysis tools provided by Power Thinking tools, Inc. Upon its acquisition by Computer Corporation of America, he became product architect for their integrated OLAP/data warehouse server. Subsequently, he co-founded the consulting firms Dimensional systems and DSS Lab, where he provided technology consulting, benchmark development and auditing, and development services to vendors and users alike of decision-support technology, including organizations such as AC Nielsen, IMS Health, Intel, Oracle, and Microsoft. He has written numerous articles for trade journals, spoken at trade shows, co-authored the book Microsoft OLAP Solutions, and authored the first edition of MDX Solutions. george@dsslab.com.
Sivakumar Harinath was born in Chennai, India. Siva has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His thesis title was: "Data Management Support for Distributed Data Mining of Large Datasets over High Speed Wide Area Networks." Siva has worked for Newgen Software Technologies (P) Ltd., IBM Toronto Labs, Canada, and has been at Microsoft since February of 2002. Siva started as a Software Design Engineer in Test (SDET) in the Analysis Services Performance Team and is currently an SDET Lead for Analysis Services ...
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