Adam Rakich is the author of The Business User's Guide to Data Integration, a guide for non-technical professionals on how to approach automating data flows between systems. Based in the UK, he has spent most of his career working with the office of finance to, in various roles, automate their reporting, streamline their budgeting, accelerate their close, enhance their core finance processes and, currently, integrate their systems, as Senior Director, Strategic Alliances for DataBlend.