Solving Operational Business Intelligence with InfoSphere Warehouse Advanced Edition

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:

Anson Kokkat

Paul McInerney

Richard Swagerman

KitMan Cheung

Irina Delidjakova

Jon Lind serves as a Product Manager for Information

Management and the InfoSphere Warehouse product within the

IBM Software Group. He works with the DB2 distributed data

management team focused on warehouse technologies, and helps

clients from around the world adopt IBM innovative warehouse

offerings to deliver solutions for their business challenges.

Currently, he is responsible for setting product and technology

direction for the InfoSphere Warehouse product line. He also

works closely with the System Technology group and Business

Partners to leverage the hardware technology of IBM and its

partners to deploy big data solutions using IBM warehouse

technology. Jon joined IBM and the DB2 Technology Development

team in Toronto, Canada in 1999, where he was responsible for

significant enhancements to the DB2 distributed platform including

the re-architecture of the engine for version 8. In 2003, he

transferred to Beaverton, Oregon where he was responsible for

delivering the High Availability and Disaster Recovery technology.

Since then he been involved in delivery technology innovations for

both IBM pureScale®, Oracle compatibility features, and various

warehouse technology developments.

Rogério Silva is a data warehousing Technical Enablement

Specialist at the Software Group Information Management

Technology Ecosystem (IMTE) in São Paulo, Brazil. He has more

than 12 years of experience, holding positions in development and

consulting. His areas of expertise include database, data

warehousing, and business intelligence. He is an instructor of

InfoSphere Warehouse and Netezza technical training.