Multidimensional Analytics: Delivered with InfoSphere Warehouse Cubing Services

Publish Date
27 April 2009

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Author(s)

Chuck Ballard is a Project Manager at the International Technical Support organization, in San Jose, California. He has over 35 years of experience, holding positions in the areas of Product Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Technical Support, and Management. His expertise is in the areas of database, data management, data warehousing, business intelligence, and process re-engineering. He has written extensively on these subjects, taught classes, and presented at conferences and seminars worldwide. Chuck has both a Bachelors degree and a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.

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Silvio Ferrari is a senior IT specialist in the IBM Sales and Distribution Organization in Sao Paulo, Brazil. For the past eight years he has worked in the IBM Information Management area as a Business Intelligence consultant, providing support for customers who are planning and implementing data warehousing environments and OLAP systems.

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Robert Frankus is a Consultant IT Specialist for the BI Best Practices Team focused on Analytics. He is based in San Francisco, CA. His areas of expertise are in analytics, data warehousing, and information integration. Over the last seven years, he architected and developed a number of analytical applications, dashboards, and corporate performance management solutions for Fortune 500 clients, in industries, such as retail, high tech, and financial services. He teaches extensively on dimensional modeling and building business intelligence applications. He has a Masters of Management Information Systems from the University of Cologne, Germany and was a Visiting Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Sascha Laudien works as an IT Specialist for the IBM Software Group, Germany. His areas of expertise are in administration of DB2 databases, data warehousing, information integration, and analytical application development. As a part of the IBM Information Management services team he currently supports customer projects in Germany that are based on a wide variety of Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence topics. He has a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and is an IBM Certified Associate and an IBM Certified Solution Designer.

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Andy Perkins is a Data Warehousing Specialist for the IBM Silicon Valley Lab Data Warehouse on System z SWAT team, focusing on InfoSphere Warehouse on System z. He lives in Dallas, Texas and has over 26 years of experience with customer data warehouse and BI projects, providing support in consulting, architecture design, data modeling, and implementation of data warehouses and analytical solutions. Over the years Andy worked with the majority of the IBM Information Management products portfolio on platforms ranging from the PC to the System z.

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Philip Wittann is an Advisory Software Engineer for Cognos Business Intelligence Reporting with IBM, Australia. He has worked with business intelligence reporting for seven years and through this time created and identified some of the key approaches to successful implementation of relational and dimensional reporting applications with IBM Cognos products. He also taught courses on data design, report design, metadata modeling, and understanding queries from both SQL and MDX query perspectives across multiple relational and OLAP providers. Phil has a degree in Physics from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

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ISBN

0738432628

IBM Form Number
SG24-7679-00