My name is Frank Backes and I’m living near Heidelberg, Germany. I have studied Physics and Astronomy and received my master’s degree from the University of Heidelberg in 1989. I have more than twenty years of experience in professional software development. For more than ten years, my primary focus is on data warehousing. As an employee as well as a freelancer (since 2000) I have designed and finally launched a number of very successful data warehouses in the pharmaceutical and financial sectors.