About the Reviewers

Kaustav Das is an Oracle Fusion Middleware consultant with more than 8 years of experience in application designing and implementing and deploying scalable enterprise architectures focused on service-oriented architectures (SOAs), governance, business process management (BPM), and enterprise application integration (EAI). He is an Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPM Suite Certified Implementation Specialist and has led multiple successful full-lifecycle projects across different domains.

He currently works as a senior sales consultant at Oracle; prior to joining Oracle, he worked for Accenture as a subject matter expert for Oracle Service Bus and other BEA Aqualogic products.

I would like to appreciate the encouragement I got from my family to achieve many things in my life. A special note of thanks to my wonderful wife, Trishna, for her constant support, cooperation, and patience, without which, it would not have been possible for me to manage my work and life together.

Haitham A. El-Ghareeb is an assistant professor at the Information Systems department, Faculty of Computers and Information Sciences, Mansoura University, Egypt. Haitham is a member of many distinguishable computer organizations; reviewer at different, highly recognizable academic journals; contributor to open source projects; and author of different books.

Haitham is interested in e-learning, enterprise architecture, information architecture, and software architecture, especially service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process management (BPM), business process management systems (BPMS), information storage and management, virtualization, cloud computing, big data, and collaboration with information systems and e-learning organizations and researchers.

Haitham holds a master's degree in science (2008) from the same faculty he is currently working for. His master's thesis was entitled Evaluation of Service Oriented Architecture in e-Learning. This thesis was highly recognized and has been published as an international book under the same title (ISBN-10: 3838355385). Haitham holds a PhD (2012) from the same faculty he is currently working for. His PhD dissertation was entitled Optimizing Service Oriented Architecture to Support e-Learning with Adaptive and Intelligent Features. This PhD dissertation was highly recognized and has been published as an international book under the title Optimizing Service Oriented Architecture to Support e-Learning (10-digit ISBN: 3847311875). Haitham is the author of Enterprise Integration Opportunities and Challenges (10-digit ISBN: 3659371793). For an updated list of Haitham's activities and research articles, consider the following websites:

• LinkedIn profile: http://eg.linkedin.com/in/helghareeb/
• Personal website: http://www.helghareeb.me
• Blog: http://blog.helghareeb.me
• Channel on YouTube: http://video.helghareeb.me
• List of publications: http://scholar.google.com.eg/citations?user=wXaTCaUAAAAJ&hl=en

Big thanks go to my family, without whom I wouldn't have been where I am today.

Fabio Persico is a senior Oracle Integration Specialist at infoMENTUM Ltd., London. He has almost 10 years of experience in the software development industry, working with services and data integration technologies, such as Java, SOA, BPM, ESB, and ETL.

In his current role at infoMENTUM Ltd., he works on the architecture, design, and implementation of strategic and innovative solutions, mainly based on SOA.

Currently, he is particularly interested in learning DWH and implementing them using Oracle and OBIEE.

Fabio is an Oracle Certified Specialist Consultant in SOA, BPM, and ODI.

You can get in touch with him using the following channels:

LinkedIn profile: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/fabiopersico

Blog: http://fabiopeblog.blogspot.co.uk

Company website: http://www.infomentum.com

I would like to thank my wonderful wife, Giulia, for her patience, support, and help. I wouldn't be where I am without her!