Mike Ferguson is Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited. As an analyst and consultant he specialises in business intelligence / analytics, data management, big data and enterprise business integration. With over 40 years of IT experience, Mike has consulted for dozens of companies on business intelligence strategy, technology selection, enterprise architecture, and data management. He has spoken at events all over the world and written numerous articles. Formerly he was a principal and co-founder of Codd and Date Europe Limited – the inventors of the Relational Model, a Chief Architect at Teradata on the Teradata DBMS and European Managing Director of Database Associates. Mike teaches in Data Warehouse Modernisation, Big Data Architecture & Technology, Centralised Data Governance of a Distributed Data Landscape, Practical Guidelines for Implementing a Data Mesh, Embedded Analytics, Intelligent Apps & AI Automation, Migrating Data Warehouse to the Cloud, Modern Data Architecture and Data Virtualisation.
Mike was one of the speakers at a previous edition of our yearly conference, the Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence Summit.
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