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 Enterprise and Cloud BI, Big Data and Hadoop architecture and technology, OBIEE, Informatica, Oracle Data Integrator, Enterprise Data Warehousing, and master data management.

He currently manages the BI practice for a prime Oracle partner and has led implementations that have won the industry award for deployment of BI applications. He is also responsible for the development of product offerings and for building BI and Big Data applications.

In his spare time, he enjoys learning about new technologies and the ever-changing social media and marketing use cases, writing new software that helps customers leverage the most out of their investments, and traveling and spending time with his family.

Ralf Becher has worked as an IT system architect and data management consultant for more than 15 years in the areas of banking, insurance, logistics, automotive, and retail. He founded TIQ Solutions in 2004 with partners.

The Leipzig company specializes in modern, quality-assured data management. Since 2004, it has been helping its customers process, evaluate, and maintain the quality of company data, helping them introduce, implement, and improve complex solutions in the fields of data architecture, data integration, data migration, master data management, metadata management, data warehousing, and business intelligence.

Ralf started working with PowerCenter in 2002 and has realized many projects with it in the data warehouse realm. He runs his data integration blog at http://tiqview.tumblr.com/.

Umamaheswaran T.G has more than 15 years of experience in information technology, working as a development lead at C1X, which is a fast growing start-up in the Bay area. Before joining C1X, he worked as a senior Java consultant with Yahoo, Wells Fargo USA, Citibank Japan, Bank of America, Fidelity Information Systems, and Kaiser Permanente. He has also reviewed Drools Developer's Cookbook, Packt Publishing.