At the 2016 edition of the Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence Summit in Amsterdam, Mike Ferguson was one of the key international speakers. Sjoerd Janssen, on behalf of BI-Platform, spoke with him about NoSQL databases, Spark and data governance.
About Mike Ferguson
Mike Ferguson is Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited. As an independent analyst and consultant he specialises in business intelligence, big data, data management and enterprise business integration. He has over 34 years of IT experience:
• 26 years in BI and Corporate Performance Management
• 34 years in Data Management
• 12 years in Smart Business
• 5 years Big Data Analytics (Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, Graph DBMSs….)
Mike works at board, senior IT levels and detailed technical IT levels on business intelligence/corporate performance management strategy, technology selection, enterprise architecture, business integration, MDM and data integration. He speaks at events all over the world and has written numerous articles and white papers. Formerly he was a principal and co-founder of Codd and Date Europe Limited – the inventors of the Relational Model, a Chief Architect at NCR on the Teradata DBMS and European Managing Director of Database Associates. He teaches popular master classes in Big Data, New Technologies for Data Warehousing and BI, Operational BI, Enterprise Data Governance, Master Data Management, Data Integration and Enterprise Architecture.