Bence Arató
Managing Director of BI Consulting Hungary. He has been in the BI industry since 1995 as an analyst, architect and adviser. 

 

Consulting and Advisory
He advises companies on general BI strategy, project and architecture planning, and vendor and tool selection. Also provides QA and on-the-job mentoring services. Areas of coverage: Data warehousing, Business intelligence and Big Data technologies.

Publications
He writes about business analytics on the BI.hu website since 1998 and is the chief editor of the Hungarian BI Yearbook periodical.

Research
He leads the research activities of the yearly run BI-TREK and DW-TREK surveys collecting information and user feedback about the local BI&DW trends and application areas , including architectural choices, development plans and vendor mind-share and market penetration indicators.

Teaching
He teaches several BI and DW related classes at the Hungarian BI Academy.

Conferences and events
Chair of the organization committee of the Budapest Data Forum (budapestdataforum.com) and the Budapest BI Forum (budapestbiforum.com) conferences, organizer of the Budapest Big Data and the
Budapest BI meetup groups.

Professional Memberships
Member of the Boulder BI Brain Trust (boulderbibraintrust.org), an association of independent DW/BI analysts, organized and led by Ms. Claudia Imhoff.

Twitter
Event and news coverage by @bencearato on Twitter.