About the Authors

Manoj R Patil is the Chief Architect in Big Data at Compassites Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd. where he overlooks the overall platform architecture related to Big Data solutions, and he also has a hands-on contribution to some assignments. He has been working in the IT industry for the last 15 years. He started as a programmer and, on the way, acquired skills in architecting and designing solutions, managing projects keeping each stakeholder's interest in mind, and deploying and maintaining the solution on a cloud infrastructure. He has been working on the Pentaho-related stack for the last 5 years, providing solutions while working with employers and as a freelancer as well.

Manoj has extensive experience in JavaEE, MySQL, various frameworks, and Business Intelligence, and is keen to pursue his interest in predictive analysis.

He was also associated with TalentBeat, Inc. and Persistent Systems, and implemented interesting solutions in logistics, data masking, and data-intensive life sciences.

Thank you Packt Publishing for extending this opportunity and guiding us through this process with your extremely co-operative team! I would also like to thank my beloved parents, lovely wife Manasi, and two smart daughters for their never-ending support, which keeps me going. Special thanks to my friend Manish Patel, my CEO Mahesh Baxi for being inspirational in my taking up this project, my co-author Feris for being committed in spite of his busy schedule, reviewers for reading the book and giving meaningful commentary and reviews, and to all those who directly/indirectly helped me with this book.

Finally I would like to extend an extra special thanks to Mahatria Ra for being an everlasting source of energy.

Feris Thia is a founder of PHI-Integration, a Jakarta-based IT consulting company that focuses on data management, data warehousing and Business Intelligence solutions. As a technical consultant, he has spent the last seven years delivering solutions with Pentaho and the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform across various industries, including retail, trading, finance/banking, and telecommunication.

He is also a member and maintainer of two very active local Indonesian discussion groups related to Pentaho () and Microsoft Excel (the BelajarExcel.info Facebook group).

His current activities include research and building software based on Big Data and the data mining platform, that is, Apache Hadoop, R, and Mahout.

He would like to work on a book with a topic on analyzing customer behavior using the Apache Mahout platform.

I'd like to thank my co-author Manoj R Patil, technical reviewers, and all the folks at Packt Publishing, who have given me the chance to write this book and helped me along the way. I'd also like to thank all the members of the Pentaho Indonesia User Group and Excel Indonesia User Group through the years for being my inspiration for the work I've done.

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