Ramesh Parcha graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Gulbarga University and has been working in the IT industry for over 13 years now. He is presently working in NTTDATA as a Project Manager.

He has been working with IBM Cognos BI products since 2006.

Earlier in his career, he worked for SETKHAM, SIS Inoftech, and Dataformix Technologies, USA. He has worked on a few other books such as IBM Cognos Framework Manager, Video Course on IBM Cognos 10 Report Studio, and IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook.

Jo?o Patr?o is a technology leader with expertise in mobile development, application integration aligned with business and strategic goals, multi-disciplinary team management, and project delivery. As the IT Director of SUMA, he has built a responsive and proactive IT organization, with improvements to service delivery, standardization, and business/systems performance.

With a strong orientation to strategic and business objectives, he always looks for innovation and integration of different methods and technologies to create new solutions that can maximize the talent and the resources of the organization.

He has a background in Engineering and Computer Science at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST Lisbon) and has an Executive MBA from EGP-University of Porto Business School.