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Cindi Howson, Founder

Cindi HowsonBIScorecard Founder, Cindi Howson has been using, implementing, and evaluating business intelligence tools for 20 years. She advises clients on BI strategy and tool selections. She is a frequent speaker at industry events and has been quoted in Computerworld, The Wall Street Journal, The Irish Times, and Business Week. Having started her career in BI at a Fortune 500 company, she has a strong customer focus with a practical approach to business intelligence. She has an MBA from Rice University and was awarded Jones Scholar.

Some of Cindi’s qualifications include:

• Author of Successful Business Intelligence: Secrets to Making BI a Killer App
• Teaches for The Data Warehouse Institute
• Writes for Intelligent Enterprise and the Business Intelligence Network.
• Author of Business Objects XI Release 2: The Complete Reference
• Formerly a Manager for Deloitte & Touche, Analytics Practice
• Formerly the BI Standards Leader for a Fortune 500 Company

CONTRIBUTING EXPERTS

While founder Cindi Howson does most of the vendor evaluations, we rely on a network of experts for additional insights and to contribute reviews.

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Steve Dine
Datasource Consulting

DatasourceSteve Dine is President of Datasource Consulting, LLC, Denver, CO. He has more than 10 years of experience delivering successful, highly scalable and maintainable data integration and business intelligence (BI) solutions that align to the unique requirements of each individual organization. Steve combines hands-on technical experience across the entire BI project lifecycle with strong business acumen. He has experience as a director of BI for a global manufacturing company as well as a consultant for Fortune 500 companies. Steve contributes Cognos product reviews and expertise for BIScorecard.

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Mike Ferguson
Intelligent Business Strategies Limited

mike fergusonMike Ferguson is Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited, based in Manchester, England.  As an analyst and consultant he specializes in business intelligence and enterprise business integration.  With over 26 years of IT experience, Mike has consulted for dozens of companies on business intelligence strategy, technology selection, enterprise architecture, enterprise portals, business process integration, SOA and data integration.  For BIScorecard, Mike provides expertise in scorecards and dashboards for all leading BI vendors

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Jos Van Dongen
Thoris Consulting

Jos Van DongenJos has been involved in software development, business intelligence and data warehousing since 1991. Before starting his own consulting practice, Jos worked for a top tier systems integrator and a leading management consulting firm. Over the past 15 years, he has implemented data warehouses and BI solutions for a variety of organizations, both profit and non-profit, using a variety of BI platforms. Jos covers new BI and DWH developments for the Dutch Database Magazine and speaks regularly at national and international conferences. He is the co-author of Pentaho Solutions.

Axis Group
www.axisgroup.com

axisThe AXIS Group provides consulting and advisory services for the education, architecture, design, and implementation of Business Intelligence solutions. AXIS works with companies in developing enterprise solutions that deliver timely, secure and accurate information while leveraging expertise with today's leading BI tools for the customers benefit. AXIS ' services encompass the complete Business Intelligence lifecycle from business transactions, data integration and information management thru reporting, analysis, forecasting and performance management.  The Axis Group provides expertise in Business Objects and QlikTech products for BIScorecard.

Jeff McQuigg
MetricSphere

jeffAs a career consultant, Jeff has focused on Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence for the majority of his career. As a Partner at Metricsphere, he is responsible for determining the company's BI and project delivery methodology, best practices, standards and lessons learned. For BIScorecard, Jeff provides expertise in Oracle BI EE (Siebel Analytics), having authored Siebel's internal Best Practices document.

 

Are you a specialist in one of the products we cover? If you are interested in contributing reviews or expertise, contact cindihowson@biscorecard.com for more information.