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Cindi Howson, Founder

Cindi HowsonBI Scorecard 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, Business Week, and Forbes. 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 InformationWeek.
Co-Author of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0: 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

Jeff McQuigg
KPI Partners, Inc.

Jeff McQuiggAs 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.

Dallas Marks
EVtechnologies

Dallas MarksDallas Marks is a principal technical architect with EVtechnologies and a contributing author to the recently published SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence book from SAP PRESS. For nearly 10 years, he has helped architect business intelligence solutions as a certified SAP BusinessObjects expert. He is also an authorized trainer, blogger, and popular speaker at user groups and conferences. For BI Scorecard, Dallas provides expertise in SAP BusinessObjects.

Patrick McCormick

Patrick McCormickPatrick McCormick has over 23 years of IT experience and is a Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP) at the Mastery Level. He is an active Executive Board member of Wisconsin Data Management Association (DAMA) and started the Madison Tableau User Group (TUG). As owner of McCormick BI, LLC, Patrick uses Tableau to deliver Analytics as a Service, as well as performing the role of Enterprise Solution Architect for BI projects at a nationally known insurance company. For BIScorecard, Patrick provides expertise in Tableau Software. LinkedIn

 

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.