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A BOUT THE A UTHORS Lawrence Corr is a data warehouse designer and educator. As Principal of DecisionOne Consulting, he helps organizations to improve their Business Intelligence systems through the use of visual data model- ing techniques. He regularly teaches agile dimensional modeling courses worldwide and has taught DW/BI skills to thousands of IT professionals since 2000. Lawrence has developed and reviewed data warehouses for healthcare, telecommunications, engineering, broadcasting, financial services and public service organizations. He held the position of data warehouse practice leader at Linc Systems Corporation, CT, USA and vice-president of data warehousing products at Teleran Technologies, NJ, USA. Lawrence was also a Ralph Kimball Associate and has taught data warehousing classes for Kimball University in Europe and South Africa and contributed to Kimball articles and design tips. He lives in Yorkshire, England with his wife Mary and daughter Aimee. Law- rence can be contacted at: [email protected] Jim Stagnitto is a data warehouse and master data management architect specializing in the healthcare, financial services and information service industries. He is the founder of the data warehousing and data mining consulting firm Llumino. Jim has been a guest contributor for Ralph Kimball’s Intelligent Enterprise column, and a contributing author to Ralph Kimball & Joe Caserta’s The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit. He lives in Bucks County, PA, USA with his wife Lori, and their happy brood of pets. Jim can be contacted at: [email protected]