About the Reviewers

Moncef Maiza is a technologist, with years of experience in designing and building products and services that are used by some of the largest corporations in the world. Currently Mr. Maiza is a Principal at DataSieve, where he identifies, develops, and manages the technical products and services to further to achieve company's goals. Previously Mr. Maiza was the first employee at digiMine, where he played a crucial role in getting the company started and played a leading role in developing a world class infrastructure for the pioneering WebHousing Application Service Provider.

Prior to working with digiMine, Mr. Maiza served as the president and CEO of ISTC Corp—a software development and business intelligence consulting company. During his tenure at ISTC, Mr. Maiza lead the company in building applications, data warehousing systems, and on-the-edge reporting systems for companies such as Ford Motor Company, Liberty Mutual, UPS, 3M, and SEARS Roebuck.

Before that Mr. Maiza was of Director of Information at CPHA—a pioneering company in the field of medical informatics that hosted the data of more than 2000 leading U.S. hospitals. CPHA was later bought in part by HCIA Inc. Mr. Maiza played the lead role in moving the company to adopt modern data warehousing and management techniques. He also helped in developing innovative techniques to mine data from the enormous CPHA/HCIA data warehouses.

Mr. Maiza holds graduate degrees in mathematics and computer sciences from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Meenakshi Verma has a been part of the IT industry since 1998. She is experienced in deploying solutions across multiple industry segments using SAP BI, SAP Business Objects, and Java/J2EE technologies. She is currently based in Toronto, Canada and is working with Enbridge Gas Distribution.

Meenakshi has been helping with technical reviews for books published by Packt Publishing across varied enterprise solutions. Her earlier work includes JasperReports for Java Developers, Java EE 5 Development using GlassFish Application Server, Practical Data Analysis and Reporting with BIRT, EJB 3 Developer's Guide, Learning DOJO, and Websphere Application Server.

I'd like to thank my Father (Mr Bhopal Singh) and Mother (Mrs Raj Bala) for laying a strong foundation in me and giving me their unconditional love and support. I also owe thanks and gratitude to my husband (Atul Verma) for his encouragement and support throughout the review of this book and many others, to my four-year old son (Prieyaansh Verma) for giving me the warmth of his love despite my hectic schedules, and to my brother (Sachin Singh) for always being there for me.

Michael Williams graduated with a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Kansas in December of 2004. He has been working with BIRT since 2008. Currently, he works as a BIRT-Exchange Evangelist for Actuate Corporation named The People Behind BIRT, and spends much of his time creating technical content for the website (www.birt-exchange.org), attending conferences, and answering forum questions.