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Adrian Ward is an Oracle ACE Associate who started working in Siebel Analytics
back in 2001 and quickly realized the potential in the technology. He formed the UK's first
independent consultancy focusing purely on OBIEE (nee Siebel Analytics) and Oracle BI
Applications. He has led many large successful OBIEE implementations in a wide range of business
sectors, from investment banking to military operations. His deep technical OBIEE and BI
Applications knowledge has been applied on dozens of projects throughout the globe, including
HR, Sales, Service, Pharma, and Custom Analytics, which is enabling hundreds of thousands of
users in their day-to-day roles. He was also one of the first bloggers on Oracle BIEE at
http://www.obiee.info and today runs the Addidici OBIEE consultancy, which has operations in the
UK, Europe, and South Africa. Adrian runs one of the largest Oracle BI networking groups on
LinkedIn -- Oracle Business Intelligence, is an active tweeter (@Addidici), is a speaker at
Oracle conferences, and helps others learn. In his spare time, he loves sailing at Hayling
Island, skiing, enjoying life with his family, and learning new technologies.Khan Haroun :
Haroun Khan is one of Europe's leading OBIEE consultants. A computer science graduate of Imperial College, London, he has been involved with OBIEE from its early days as an acquisition from nQuire by Siebel, and subsequently as part of the Oracle family. Haroun worked as a consultant on projects worldwide for Siebel and as a Principal Consultant for Oracle over a period of 10 years. He has specialized in BI and data warehousing over a longer period including time working at MicroStrategy. Haroun is also an entrepreneur, successfully founding and currently running the online travel site https://www.jrpass.com/. His experience in e-commerce has given him new insight into how analytics is vital to the running of any business nowadays. He engages with cohort analysis, clickstream analytics, and conversion tracking. He still freelances in leading and designing projects in the traditional BI and data warehousing space. In his downtime, Haroun likes to climb, is an avid squash player, and can sometimes be found prone, deep in despair, as he tries his hands at writing a novel.