We solve complex problems of data modeling and develop tools and solutions to let business perform best through data analysis.

Marco Russo

 

Marco Russo is a Business Intelligence consultant and mentor. His main activities are related to data warehouse relational and multidimensional design, but he is also involved in the complete development lifecycle of a BI solution. He has particular competence and experience in sectors like financial services (including complex olap designs in banking area), manufacturing and commercial distribution.

Marco is also a book author and, apart from his BI-related publications, he also wrote some books about .NET programming. He is also a speaker in international conferences like European PASS Conference and PASS Summit. He is an MCT and has several certifications (MCPD, MCIP, MCTS, MCAD and MCDBA).
He has an active blog on SQLblog.com.

Books

Italian

  • Microsoft C# (2002, Mondadori Informatica)
  • CLR .NET Full Contact (2003, Mondadori Informatica)

English

Conferences

Marco has been a speaker at several conferences since 1999. The most relevant in the last years are:
  • European PASS Conference 2008 (April 15-16, 2008 – Neuss, Germany)
    • The Many-to-many Revolution - Advanced Data Modeling with Microsoft Sql Server Analysis Services (SSAS) 2005
  • Microsoft SQL Server & Business Intelligence Conference 2009 (April 1-2, 2009 – Milano)
    • SQLBI Methodology: how to model a BI solution
    • Custom Security in SQL Server Analysis Services
  • European PASS Conference 2009 (April 23-24, 2009 – Neuss, Germany)
    • SQLBI Methodology
  • Microsoft Virtualization Conference 2009 (September 22-23, 2009 – Milano, Italy)
    • SQL Server performance in virtual machines: OLTP vs OLAP
  • PASS Summit 2009 (November 2-5, 2009 – Seattle, USA)
    • SQLBI Methodology
 

Other info

Marco approached and designed complex models involving heavy use of virtual cubes, distinct count measures, MDX formulas especially server-side (calculated members and custom member formulas) and many-to-many relationships (with UDM of SQL Server 2005/8). He is one of the authors of the SQLBI Methodology, which is specifically intended to use the SQL Server platform to design a Business Intelligence Solution based on a RDBMS-based Data Warehouse and a multidimensional database using Analysis Services. He has been an early SQL Server 2005 beta tester since summer 2003.