Vikas Agrawal is a Business Intelligence evangelist with over 15 years of experience working in multiple industries with clients that include Fortune 500 companies. He has deep expertise and knowledge in the areas of Security, Performance, Enterprise BI Architectures, Oracle BI Applications, OBIEE, Informatica, Oracle Data Integrator, Enterprise Data Warehousing, Master Data Management, and Big Data related technologies.
He has been involved with OBIEE from its early days since Siebel's acquisition of nQuire and now as part of Oracle's line of BI tools. He currently leads the BI practice for a prime Oracle partner and has led implementations that have won the prestigious Titan Award for deployment of OBIEE and Oracle BI Applications. He is also responsible for developing product offerings and building the Oracle BI Applications deployment methodology.
In his spare time, he enjoys learning new technologies, ever-changing social media, and marketing use cases, writing new software that helps customers leverage the most out of their investments, travelling, and spending time with his family.
Paul S. Bere is an Oracle Certified Implementation Specialist with over 6 years of experience in OBIEE providing end-to-end business intelligence solutions. His expertise involves working with Business Users, Controllers, Directors, Senior Managers, Executives, Department Heads, and Project Stake Holders. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Technology from Northern Kentucky University.
He is a versatile OBIEE consultant and a computer expert with a myriad of other skills and talents, which include being a soccer referee, a radio host, and a poet. His versatility stems from the development of self-confidence and determination coupled with the grooming of character, constantly refined by good manners, patience, and self-control. He not only believes in intellectual power but also in abiding by the fundamental morals and values of life. He values the discipline to reason sensibly and judge impartially while understanding and respecting others.
Paul is a published author of a poetry book, The Chronicles of Benevolent Affection: A Declaration of Love, Tribulation and Hope.
Raunak T. Jhawar graduated as a computer science engineer from the University of Pune (Class of 2009). He has over 3 years of working experience with different organizations and clients small, medium, and large. He works as a data warehouse engineer and specializes in BI solutions for ETL, Data reporting, OLAP, and data mining.
Raunak has reviewed two books that were already published by Packt Publications (Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Professional Tips and Tricks, Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Security Cookbook). He often blogs at www.sqlservercentral.com and www.sqlservergeeks.com.