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Mike Ferguson is CEO of Intelligent Business Strategies. As an independent analyst and consultant he specialises in business intelligence(BI) and business optimisation. With over 28 years of IT experience, Mike has consulted for many companies on BI, complex event processing (CEP), performance management, enterprise architecture and data governance. He has spoken all over the world and written numerous articles. Mike is a resident expert on the Business-Intelligence-Network, providing insights on the industry. Formerly he was co-founder of Codd and Date Europe – the inventors of the Relational Model, a Chief Architect at Teradata and European CEO of Database Associates.