Robert Ilijason is a 20-year veteran in the business intelligence (BI) segment. He has worked as a contractor for some of Europe's biggest companies and has conducted large-scale analytics projects within the areas of retail, telecom, banking, government, and more. He has seen his share of analytic trends come and go over the years, but unlike most of them, he strongly believes that Apache Spark in the cloud, especially with Azure Databricks, is a game changer.