Who am I and why should you read this blog?

I've been working with Business Intelligence software in one form or another for the past 10 years. Beyond my BI experience, I have a finance background ranging over 17 years. Primarily in recent years I've focused on working with the Oracle/Hyperion Essbase OLAP product. Over the years I've been an end user, administrator, developer, consultant, and most recently I am a Vice President for Financial Systems Development at a large financial brokerage firm. I was certified on Essbase in 2004 and received an Oracle Ace award in 2008. I can honestly say I've gotten a lot out of working in this field and I like to give back as much as I can. I've always been very active in user forums and I thought I could be of more service to my fellow developers (presumably by sharing my ideas) if I started a blog to share some of my experiences. Beyond Essbase and its related products I am also a heavy relational database user/developer and ETL developer. So you can expect to find more on this blog than just Essbase. I love the idea of manipulating data and turning it into something useful and when I can, I'll share with you how I do it.
Beyond the technical talk, I find BI to be an architecture for management and when applicable I'll also be talking about the human side (some say the ugly side) of Business Intelligence. I hope you enjoy and can make use of the content you find here.

Best Regards,

Gary Crisci

Friday, December 5, 2008

Dec Update

Quick update since I haven't posted in a while. I actually have a topic to post on I just haven't gotten around to putting it up, but should have it up soon. Things have been very busy lately, working in the financial services industry is a challenge these days, actually I suppose working in any industry is a challenge these days. Fortunately I do have some distractions, one of which is my participation on the ODTUG Hyperion SIG Board of Directors. Currently the BOD is engaged in putting together the agenda for the Kaleidoscope user conference in Monterey, CA. June 2009. Over the past few weeks, we have been reviewing abstracts and structuring the different tracks for the five days of the conference. I am very pleased with the content we have and really like the way the program is coming together. I strongly urge you to check out http://www.odtugkaleidoscope.com/ and consider attending this year. While expenses are going to be very tight this year for most of us, I strongly suggest you try to attend this conference. Remember one of the main differentiators with this conference is the amount of training you will get. This conference will not be a typical wine and dine vendor junket. The bulk of the conference is devoted to technical training and you will get a lot of it, dollar for dollar there is no better deal on the amount of content you will learn for the price. So I hope to see many of you there and if you do attend, be sure to look for my presentations, I'd love to see you there.

Best Regards
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