Martin Cardoso is an IT Architect working in the SAP Tiger Team for Business Global Services in IBM Argentina. He joined IBM in 2002 from PwC Consulting, working as an SAP Basis Consultant and SAP Basis SME for the SSA region. Martin has more than ten years experience working with SAP technologies. His expertise include storage and related software, database technologies, SAP NetWeaver technologies, SAP capacity planning, SAP performance and tuning, SAP heterogeneous migrations, and he now specializes in designing of SAP infrastructure architectures. He is a co-author of the Redbooks publication, Best Practices for SAP BI using DB2 9 for z/OS, SG24-6489. Martin was certified as an SAP NetWeaver Technical Consultant in 2007.