Alberto Ferrari is a Business Intelligence consultant and mentor working for SQLBI.com. His main interests are in the methodological approach to the BI development lifecycle, complex data modeling for both Tabular and Multidimensional, performance tuning of the whole ETL pipeline and SQL code. His main activities are related to the design and the implementation of complex solutions based on Integration Services and Analysis Services for the bank, manufacturing and statistical areas.

He has been co-author of several books: "Expert Cube Development with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services," "PowerPivot for Excel 2010: Give Your Data Meaning" and the new "Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services: The BISM Tabular Model."

Alberto is certified as SSAS Maestro and is a regular speaker at international conferences like PASS Summit, SQLRally and SQLBits.