Eberhard Hechler

Eberhard Hechler is an Executive Architect from the IBM Germany R&D Lab. He is a member of DB2 Analytics Accelerator development. After 2,5 years at the IBM Kingston Lab in New York, he worked in SW development, performance optimization, IT/solution architecture & design, Hadoop and Spark integration and MDM. He began to work with DB2 for MVS, focusing on testing and performance measurements. He has worked worldwide with IBM clients from various industries on a vast number of topics, such as DWH and BI solutions, information architectures, and industry solutions. From 2011-2014, he was at IBM Singapore, working as the Lead Big Data Architect in the Communications Sector of IBM's Software Group. He is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology Leadership Team, and co-authored the following books: Enterprise MDM, Pearson, 2008, ISBN: 0132366258; The Art of Enterprise Information Architecture, Pearson, 2010, ISBN: 0137035713; Beyond Big Data, Pearson, 2014, ISBN: 013350980X