Anoop Kumar V K - Business Intelligence Demystified: Understand and Clear All Your Doubts and Misconceptions About BI

Late Shri V.K. Kumar

My father, for inspiring me with his actions and righteousness

Anoop Kumar V Kis a BI professional with over 15 years of experience in BI. Since June 2020 he is working as a freelance data and BI consultant. He is also the founder and managing director of PublicBI UG based in Munich. He started his corporate BI career with Infosys in the year 2006. Since then, he has implemented, led, and managed several end-to-end BI projects across various locations in various industries in various roles using a variety of tools and technologies for customers such as Target, Geogia-Pacific, BT, Telstra, BG group, and E-on Energy Trading. In 2015, Anoop joined Wirecards Issuing Division at Munich as a Business Intelligence Business Analyst. He led the BI team, came up with the agile KABI methodology, and played a key role in building the BI solution from scratch for the division in less than a year of team formation.

In 2017, while still working for Wirecard as a Principal Data Analyst, he founded his own company, PublicBI UG in Munich with an idea and passion to make better use of public data (superset of open data). In 2018, PublicBI won 2nd prize at EU Datathon 2018, Brussels for the PublicBI EUProc solution, after which he was invited to present the solution at various locations. In his last permanent role as the Head of a department within Data Services division, Wirecard Munich he built, led, and managed a global and central department consisting of 3 teams of project managers, business analysts, and data analysts.

Outside work, Anoop likes to be with family and friends, travel, read, blog about BI, meditate, and write his thoughts in his personal blog at http://www.akclarity.com. He can be contacted through his BI website - https://www.akvkbi.comor LinkedIn.

Harel Sagivis a BI expert with a rich professional history that includes over 30 years of implementing, developing, and leading ERP projects, IT Master Plans, and BI projects. He specializes in designing BI architectures that are focused on providing business added value while ensuring a robust data infrastructure for future requirements.

In the last 15 years, Harel was responsible for the design and delivery of over 10 full life cycle SAP BI solutions for large companies in Israel, Europe, and the USA. On every project he has been committed to empowering and mentoring BI developers. Harel is an Industrial Engineer and holds a masters degree in Business Administration.