About the Reviewers

Charles Davies started his career in accountancy gaining qualifications as a Chartered Management Accountant, but always sat between the Accountancy and IT departments when building systems and reports.

From programming old SuperCalc spreadsheets for product costing purposes, to building statistical packages in MS Excel, to designing, building, and programming SAP Business Objects solutions to meet various reporting needs, Charles has always been challenging the reporting needs of businesses to ensure the reporting and dashboarding solutions meet those needs.

Charles has worked for large corporations in various industry sectors and is currently Director and Consultant of his own company Reportex Ltd., which provides SAP BusinessObjects and Dashboard Design solutions to clients in the United Kingdom and Europe.

Joshua Fletcher has worked with Business Intelligence applications for over 10 years, focusing primarily on the SAP BusinessObjects toolset. He started with Crystal Reports v8 at the beginning of his career, and is now fully certified in SAP BusinessObjects, as a Certified Professional in Enterprise XI 3.x, Data Integrator XI 3.x, Web Intelligence XI 3.x and Crystal Reports 2008, as well as working with the entire suite of SAP BusinessObjects, including many Xcelsius projects. He also has extensive experience in business analysis, dashboard design, data governance, business intelligence strategy and solution architecture, as well as a passion for data warehouse and ETL design and development. Joshua is currently employed as the SAP BusinessObjects Team Lead for CSG, a leading Australian SAP BusinessObjects Solutions Provider. When not working, he loves spending as much time as possible with his wife and son, keeping active at the gym, and playing squash.

Nargisse Skalante is a SAP BusinessObjects consultant in a multi-business group in Dubai, UAE. She combines a Masters' Degree in Information Technology and more than nine years of IT experience, including business intelligence. Throughout her career, Nargisse has had exposure to various business and functional domains namely finance, retail, and real estate. Nargisse has an extensive practice in producing innovative Xcelsius dashboards with WebIntelligence drill down reports. She also has a wide experience in integrating BusinessObjects with SAP.