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Mike Ferguson is managing director of Intelligent Business Strategies, a leading information technology analyst and consulting company. As an analyst and consultant, he specializes in enterprise business intelligence and enterprise business integration. With more than 23 years of IT experience, Ferguson has consulted for dozens of companies, spoken at events all over the world and written numerous articles. He can be contacted at +44 1625 520700 or via e-mail at mferguson@intelligentbusiness.biz.

Rebecca Graves (Kubica) is a seasoned writer in the product marketing department at Hummingbird Ltd., a global leader in integrated enterprise content management (ECM) solutions. Graves has more than 10 years of experience in a variety of research, editorial and analyst roles and has worked across corporate, human capital management, publishing and marketing organizations. Her contribution to the human capital industry includes investigative research, extensive market and product analysis, topical Web seminars and cost-analysis reports. You can contact her at rebecca.graves@hummingbird.com.

Martin Misciagna, Ph.D. is an expert in organizational behavior, with emphasis on the relationship between technology and corporate success. He has led technology-related organizational change and re-engineering efforts for a wide variety of public and private-sector organizations. Currently leading the management consulting practice of RDA Corporation, Misciagna has also worked as an internal consultant, corporate manager and a U.S. Army officer. He can be reached at misciagna@rdacorp.com.

Mahesh Velapakam is a business intelligence solutions consultant at Wipro Technologies, currently located at Bangalore, India, supporting clients on data warehousing and data quality projects. He a chartered mechanical engineer and has served in different functional and IT areas of high-tech and light engineering manufacturing organizations. His interest areas are databases and business analytics solution design and implementation.

Venkatesh Ramakrishnan is a data warehousing consultant at Wipro Technologies. He holds a master degree in science. He has worked in data quality initiatives and data warehouse implementation. His interest areas are data warehouse implementation, databases and data quality.

Scott Richardson is president/CEO and co-founder of Longwood Software, Inc. (Maynard, Massachussets), a leading provider of marketing asset management solutions. Scott has over 20 years experience in marketing resource management and has worked with hundreds of companies in the area of marketing asset management. Longwood's TagTeam system is a comprehensive marketing asset management system that was first introduced as a software application in 1997 and as a hosted service in 2000. Leading marketing organizations rely on TagTeam to manage, secure, share and track their full range of marketing assets. For additional information, visit www.tagteam.com.

Kevin Kenan leads Symantec's IT application and database security program. Prior to Symantec security work, he designed and developed applications for Symantec's information technology and product development teams, with an emphasis on security and cryptography.

Robert Morris, GT Software chief strategy officer, is responsible for the planning, integration and marketing of GT Software product solutions to the global market. Morris has an extensive background in application development and integration including experience with CASE methodologies, distributed systems as well as midrange and mainframe environments. He speaks frequently at customer and industry events including Gartner Symposium, Java One, IBM Common, IBM Transaction and Messaging, and IBM CICS and IMS. You can reach him at rmorris@gtsoftware.com.

Hugh J. Watson is a professor of MIS in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia and a holder of a C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry Chair of Business Administration. He is a leading scholar and authority on BI and data warehousing and has authored 22 books and over 100 scholarly articles. Watson is a fellow of The DataüWarehousing Institute and the Association for Information Systems. He can beüreached at hwatson@terry.uga.edu.

Thilini Ariyachandra is an assistant professor of MIS in the College of Business at the University of Cincinnati. Her main research area is business intelligence and data warehousing and she has published in Decision Support Systems, Information Systems Management and the Business Intelligence Journal. Ariyachandra can be reached at ariyact@uc.edu.