Dejan Sarka is a mentor with SolidQ and focuses on development of database and business intelligence applications. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences such as TechEd, SqlDevCon, and PASS. He is the founder of the Slovenian SQL Server and .NET Users Group. As main author or coauthor, Dejan has written nine books about SQL Server. He has also developed three courses for SolidQ: Data Modeling Essentials, Data Quality and Master Data Management, and Data Mining. Matija Lah is an independent consultant in the general and legal information management domains. Data warehousing represents an essential data management element in practically any business domain and Matija has had the opportunity to solve a variety of data warehousing problems since he started working with data warehouses in 2001.
He is one of the authors in the popular book series SQL Server MVP Deep Dives. He is a frequent speaker at conferences related to Microsoft technologies, particularly those dedicated to Microsoft SQL Server. Matija has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for SQL Server since 2007, and is a mentor at SolidQ, a trusted global provider of advanced consulting, mentoring and education solutions for the Microsoft platforms. Grega Jerkic is an independent consultant and trainer for SolidQ. For the last 12 years, he has been developing, architecting, and managing projects focusing on data warehousing, MDM, data integration, analytical/planning solutions and predictive analytics--primarily using Microsoft technology. He invented and was lead architect for a predefined business intelligence solution on top of ERP Microsoft Dynamics NAV - BI4Dynamics, which is now used worldwide by more than 150 clients and has earned two Microsoft awards for best business intelligence solution for the CEE region. Grega currently provides training and mentoring for the Microsoft BI platform around the world (Microsoft FastTrack DW workshops, Enterprise ETL with SQL 2005/2008, MDX, Advanced PowerPivot, Microsoft SQL 2008 R2 technical workshops, etc).