About the Reviewers

Robert Baumgartner earned a degree in business informatics from Austria, Europe, where he is living today. He began his career in 2002 as a business intelligence consultant working for different service companies. After that, he worked in the paper industry sector as a consultant and project manager for an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. In 2009, he founded his own company, datenpol gmbh—a service integrator specialist in selected open source software products focusing on ERP and data warehousing. Robert is an open source enthusiast who has given several speeches at open source events. The products he is working on are Odoo, Talend Data Integration, Saiku, and JasperReports. He contributes to the open source community by sharing his knowledge with blog entries on the company website at http://datenpol.at/. He commits software to GitHub, such as the OpenERP Talend Connector component, which can be found at https://github.com/baumgaro. His Odoo contributions can be found at https://github.com/datenpol and the Odoo Community Association at https://github.com/OCA. You can follow him on Twitter at @baumgaro.

Bruce Letterle is an IT industry veteran with over 30 years of experience running system integration firms and web development agencies. Currently, he is the managing director and founder of Red Lab Media, a digital agency providing web development, hosting, and marketing services.

He has been a reviewer on trixbox CE 2.6, Kerry Garrison, Packt Publishing.

Alan Lord has nearly 30 years of experience in the IT industry. He has worked for start-ups that were some of the pioneers of the early Internet (and before!) through to global telecommunication giants.

For the last 15 years or so, Alan has been building and running Linux systems both for business and pleasure. In 2006, he cofounded the open source consulting company Libertus Solutions (http://libertus.co.uk/) to offer expertise, help, and advice on free software to businesses, the public sector, and charity organizations alike.

As well as being a business-minded free software evangelist, Alan's areas of expertise include Ubuntu Linux and several popular open source business applications including Odoo and vtiger CRM.

This is the second book that Alan has reviewed for Packt Publishing, the first being vtiger CRM Beginner's Guide, published in July 2011.

Alan occasionally writes blogs at http://www.theopensourcerer.com/ and can easily be found on various social media networks.