Reza Rad is an author, trainer, speaker, and consultant. He has a BSc in Computer Engineering; he has more than 10 years' experience in programming and development mostly on Microsoft technologies. He received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in SQL Server in 2011 and 2012 for his dedication in Microsoft BI and specially SSIS. He has been working on the Microsoft BI suite for more than six years. He is an SSIS/MSBI/.NET Trainer and also software and BI Consultant at some companies and institutes. His articles on different aspects of technologies, specially on SSIS, can be found on his blog http://www.rad.pasfu.com.

He was the co-author of SQL Server MVP Deep Dives Volume 2. He is one of the active members on online technical forums such as MSDN and Experts-Exchange. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP); Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) and Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) in Business Intelligence (BI). His e-mail address is <[email protected]>.

Pedro Perfeito was born in 1977 in Portugal and currently works as a BI Senior Consultant and Developer at Novabase. He's also an invited teacher in master and short-master BI degrees at IUL-ISCTE (Lisbon) and at Universidade Portucalense (UPT-Porto) respectively. He received the Microsoft award Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in 2010, 2011, and 2012 for all his dedication and contribution in helping theoretical and practical issues in the various BI communities. He is also the co-author of SQL Server MVP Deep Dives Volume 2. He has several Microsoft certifications including MCP, MCSD, MCTS-Web, MCTS-BI, and MCITP-BI. He also has worldwide certifications in the area of BI provided by TDWI/CBIP (The Data Warehouse Institute, http://www.tdwi.org). He's currently preparing for his PhD degree on BI. For further details you can visit his personal blog at http://www.pedrocgd.blogspot.com or even contact him directly at <[email protected]>.