Edward J. Cody is an author, speaker, and industry expert in data warehousing, Oracle Business Intelligence, and Hyperion EPM implementations. He is the author and co-author respectively of two books with Packt Publishing, titled The Business Analyst's Guide to Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting 11 and The Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting 11 Expert Guide. He has consulted to both commercial and federal government clients throughout his career, and is currently managing large-scale EPM, BI, and data warehouse implementations.
I would like to commend the authors of this book for a job well done, and would like to thank Packt Publishing for the opportunity to assist in the editing of this publication.
Daniel Jue is a Sr. Software Engineer at Sotera Defense Solutions and a member of the Apache Software Foundation. He has worked in peace and conflict zones to showcase the hidden dynamics and anomalies in the underlying "Big Data", with clients such as ACSIM, DARPA, and various federal agencies. Daniel holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, where he also specialized in Physics and Astronomy. His current interests include merging distributed artificial intelligence techniques with adaptive heterogeneous cloud computing.
I'd like to thank my beautiful wife Wendy, and my twin sons Christopher and Jonathan, for their love and patience while I research and review. I owe a great deal to Brian Femiano, Bruce Miller, and Jonathan Larson for allowing me to be exposed to many great ideas, points of view, and zealous inspiration.
Bruce Miller is a Senior Software Engineer for Sotera Defense Solutions, currently employed at DARPA, with most of his 10-year career focused on Big Data software development. His non-work interests include functional programming in languages like Haskell and Lisp dialects, and their application to real-world problems.