Rich Babaran has over 20 years of experience in financial modeling and analysis, planning and forecasting, performance measurement development, workflow modelling, and process improvement. He has spent the last 9 years helping organizations improve their planning processes using IBM Cognos Planning. Rich has a Bachelor's degree in Economics and an MBA in Finance. Rich is a partner at Agile Strategic Business Consulting. The authors and Packt Publishing would like to extend their thanks to Janosys Inc. for their gracious support in the development of this book.