Harris Ward has been working in the IT sector since 2004, initially developing websites using LAMP and moving on to business intelligence in 2006. His first role was based in Germany on a product called InfoZoom, where he was introduced to the world of business intelligence. He later discovered open source business intelligence tools and dedicated the last 9 years to not only working on developing solutions, but also working to expand the Pentaho community with the help of other committed members. Harris has worked as a Pentaho consultant over the past 7 years under Ambient BI. Later, he decided to form Ivy Information Systems Scotland, a company focused on delivering more advanced Pentaho solutions as well as developing a wide range of Pentaho plugins that you can find in the marketplace today.