About the Author

B. Diane Blackwood has worked as a consultant implementing business intelligence and corporate performance management solutions since 2005. She has extensive experience in multiple industries—from microelectronics to heavy equipment manufacturing, medical, legal, and retail—using software to implement BI and CPM solutions. Diane currently works for Strafford Technology, LLC creating a data warehouse using SQL Server 2012. In 2010, she worked for El Camino Hospital, where she created a data warehouse and data marts to feed QlikView. Diane and her husband, Bob, moved from Chicago to Albuquerque in June, 2012.

She wrote a QlikView recipe book entitled Instant QlikView 11 Application Development for Packt Publishing in 2013. Diane has also written biographical encyclopedia articles on several known personalities, including Charles Babbage, Erving Goffman, and Isaac Asimov.