
The architect's guide to designing Industrial Internet solutions
Robert Stackowiak is a technology business strategist at the Microsoft
Technology Center in Chicago where he gathers business and technical requirements during client
briefings and defines Internet of Things and analytics architecture solutions, including those
that reside in the Microsoft Azure cloud. He joined Microsoft in 2016 after a 20-year stint at
Oracle where he was Executive Director of Big Data in North America. Bob (his nickname) has
spoken at industry conferences around the world and co-authored many books on analytics and data
management including Big Data and the Internet of Things: Enterprise Architecture for A New Age,
published by Apress, five editions of Oracle Essentials, published by O'Reilly Media, Oracle Big
Data Handbook, published by Oracle Press, Achieving Extreme Performance with Oracle Exadata,
published by Oracle Press, and Oracle Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Solutions,
published by Wiley. You can follow him on Twitter at @rstackow.Romano Carla :
Carla Romano is director of development for big data and data warehousing at
Oracle, focusing on industry solutions, including the Industry Data Model suite of products for
airlines and transportation, telecommunications, retail, and utilities industries. She has an
extensive background in Business Intelligence and data management, and is a frequent presenter
at Oracle Openworld and the BIWA-SIG conferences. She is also a member of the IIC testbeds
committee. She is currently developing utilities for Oracle Big Data Cloud Service. She
previously worked at Lockheed Engineering Sciences and Unisys under contracts from
NASA.Varan Nath Shyam :
Specialist Leader - AI & Analytics, Deloitte