BI Professional

BI Professional is an Information Technology blog specializing in Business Intelligence solutions.  Its topics include technical solutions to specific problems, discussions on data quality and client relations, and business intelligence theory and best practices.  It focuses primarily on Cognos Business Intelligence.

Chief Blogger Scott Andrews is Principal Consultant of Andrews Information Technology Limited.  Known by some of his clients as “the Cognos Fixer”, he is a Senior Business Intelligence Consultant with more than 12 years experience delivering business intelligence solutions.  He is a passionate advocate of data quality and business intelligence best practices, and has coached and mentored many Cognos professionals.  He is a certified IBM Solution Expert in Cognos BI and is based in Ottawa, Canada.

Contributing Blogger Peter Beck is an independent data warehouse architect and BI developer with experience delivering BI solutions across many business areas including manufacturing, distribution, sales, finance and HR.  As a specialist in Cognos BI and DataStage ETL, he is certified in Cognos, Microsoft and Oracle technologies, and holds the Certified BI Professional designation at the Mastery level from TDWI.  He is also based in Ottawa, Canada.