About the Reviewers

Dmitry Anoshin is a datacentric technologist and recognized expert in building and implementing Business Intelligence solutions. He has a successful track record of implementing BI/DWH projects in numerous industries, such as retail, finance, and e-commerce industries.

He has an in-depth knowledge of BI technologies and is experienced in various projects as a BI consultant and a hands-on ETL/DWH developer.

He has more than 7 years of experience in BI/DWH. In addition, he is certified in Teradata database, SAP BusinessObjects, SAS BI, and Pentaho DI.

He has also reviewed the book, SAP BusinessObjects Reporting Cookbook, Packt Publishing.

I would like to thank my wife, Svetlana, and my children, Vasily and Anna, for their patience while I was reviewing this book. I love them very much. Thank you, my beloved family.

Didier Valat is a certified technical leader in Business Intelligence. He graduated from Paul Sabatier, a French University, with a Master's degree in Statistics and Business Intelligence in 2009.

After completing his Master's degree, he joined an IT service company as a BI consultant in Toulouse. He worked for major clients such as EADS Airbus and Toulouse town council, and developed SAP expertise both on BusinessObjects and Business Warehouse. He worked as the Lead of Projects in the finance and supply chain domains, where his hard work and strong team spirit were recognized and appreciated.

In 2012, he joined the Teradata company in Paris to become an expert in data warehouse solution implementation. He was quickly identified as a technical and functional team leader when he worked for the main French lottery company, and he was involved in each part of the project: architecture, modeling, and development.

He is now taking part in data science challenges, mainly on R and Big Data solutions.

I would like to thank all the people behind this project who trusted me and made this book possible. I would also like to thank my family for all their love and support.