About the Authors

Nelson Enriquez is a multicultural executive and business leader with more than 17 years of experience in IT, strategy and planning areas, with specializations in business studies at Stanford (U.S.A), INSEAD (France), and EGADE (Mexico). He has international experience of working on several projects in other geographical locations including Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South America, that are focalized in business integration, valuing and acquiring technology-related companies (the Due Diligence process), and integrating IT-related operations to company standards (Mergers and Acquisitions). He also has experience in retail, pharma, services, and manufacturing industries as a partner at an IT services company, in Monterrey, as an External Director in a Big Five consultant firm, and as a IT Planning Director at Tier 1 Retail in Mexico.

Dedicated to Nelson and Enzo, my beloved children, to the 
woman who supports my dreams, and my mother, who always believes in me.

Samundar Singh Rathore is a data warehousing and business intelligence consultant, and a trainer with extensive experience on various data warehousing business intelligence products. He has worked with a large business and analytics organization with specialization in investment and healthcare domain data. He is currently working as a MicroStrategy administrator and architect. He was born in Mundara, Rajasthan, and raised in Mumbai, Maharashtra, which is the financial capital of India. He speaks Hindi and English, and he is also proficient in Java and SQL. He is an active member and the "Guru" of the MicroStrategy official discussion forum at https://resource.microstrategy.com/Forum/UserProfile.aspx?uid=8557.

I would like to thank my family and friends for their support and motivation that led me to put my thoughts together for this book. I dedicate this work to my loving mother.