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Raul Gonzalez is an associate manager with Claraview Inc., a business intelligence (BI) strategy and technology consultancy. Mr. Gonzalez brings over 10 years of BI development and deployment experience. His areas of expertise include the architecture, construction and delivery of BI and data warehousing (DW) systems. Before joining Claraview, Gonzales was a technical adviser- senior production consultant with MicroStrategy, helping clients implement best practices and align their DW implementations to the strategic vision of their organizations. Gonzalez has worked with a wide range of clients including government agencies, pharmaceutical companies, financial institutions, system integrators and retailers. He can be reached at raul.gonzalez@claraview.com.

Matthew Beyer is a senior architect in Collaborative Consulting's Data Services Practice. He may be reached at mbeyer@collaborativeconsulting.com.

Omid Razavi is the senior vice president of Cordys, a provider of industry-leading SOA solutions that allow organizations to simplify their business. The Cordys integrated SOA platform and set of SOA methodologies enable organizations to adopt a business process-centric approach to IT in order to increase operational efficiency and adapt more quickly and seamlessly to change. For more information contact orazavi@cordys.com.

Paul Tearnen is vice president of Standards Development for RosettaNet, a nonprofit consortium dedicated to the collaborative development and rapid deployment of standards-based, global supply chain solutions. He is also vice president of Technology at GS1 US, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the adoption and implementation of standards-based, global supply chain solutions. As vice president, Tearnen is responsible for overseeing the teams that develop open system architectures and XML and Java engineering for GS1 US and its three subsidiaries - EPCglobal US, RosettaNet and 1SYNC. He is recognized for his expertise in information technology mangement, software development, operations management and customer service and support.

Don Casson is president, CEO, and co-founder of Evergreen Systems, Inc., based outside Washington, D.C. in northern Virginia. Evergreen is a highly specialized technology consulting firm focused on helping complex global organizations simplify and optimize the way their IT organizations work. He has more than 17 years of experience in leading, building, managing, and operating technology companies. He has led market development and shaped the technical direction of business units focused on internal and external call center solutions, network management systems, complex networks, and workflow/document management solutions. During his career, Casson has built and lead multiple national sales teams. Before co-founding Evergreen, he was executive vice president and the third employee of Global Management Systems, Inc. (GMSI). During Don's five-year tenure, GMSI grew from 3 employees to 175 employees and more than $17 million in annual revenues. Inc. Magazine recognized these efforts by listing the company in the top 100 on their list of the 500 fastest growing, privately held firms in the U.S.

Richard Furino is senior vice president, Worldwide Client Services of Callidus Software Inc. He joined Callidus Software with a successful history of building and managing effective software engineering organizations, and implementing multimillion-dollar projects within the financial services industry. He has extensive experience in software engineering management with an emphasis on architecture and quality.Prior to joining Callidus Software, Furino worked for Washington Mutual, where he served as the Senior Vice President of Technology Solutions. He successfully directed the technology projects of the mortgage division and built a software engineering and support team of over 1,000 people. He has also served as chief technology officer at Creative Planet, president and chief operating officer at Countrywide Technology Solutions, and vice president of Integration Services and Software Engineering at Great Western Bank.

Naveen Puttagunta is director of Product Management for GoldenGate. You may contact the author at nputtagunta@goldengate.com.

Rod Murchison, vice president of Marketing for Vernier, has more than 14 years of experience in security, networking and advanced Internet applications. In addition to his role at Vernier, he is a member of the Trusted Computing Group and co-editor of a new specification requirement for Trusted Network Connect. Prior to Vernier, Murchison served as Juniper Networks' senior director of Product Management for security and edge routing products. He also directed the technical marketing and field trial organizations.

Sterling Wharton is president and CEO at Unitrends, the provider of business systems continuity and a pioneer in the protection of corporate-critical data. For more information, go to www.unitrends.com.

Samuel Madden, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the EECS department at MIT and a member of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). His research interests span all areas of database systems; past projects include the TinyDB system for data collection from sensor networks and the Telegraph adaptive query processing engine. His current research focuses on modeling and statistical techniques for value prediction and outlier detection in sensor networks, high performance database systems, and networking and data processing in disconnected environments. Madden also is an adviser to various technology companies, including Vertica Systems, Inc. He may be reached at madden@csail.mit.edu