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 7 years. Beyond my BI experience, I have a finance background ranging over 13 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, June 26, 2009

Leaving Monterey - So long Kaleidoscope; see ya next year

So I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again (that sounds familiar). Anyway, KScope (that's what the cool kids call it) was excellent this year, a worthy follow up to last year's conference and a great inspiration for next year's conference. I wanted to say thanks to the people who voted me back onto the board of directors, I will be sure to work with the rest of the board to pack as much great content into next year as we can. Of course that is partly based on what all of you send us, so please come up with some interesting abstracts for presentations and submit them when we make the call. I'm also hoping to get more hands on labs next year. there is no teaching experience like when you actually get to do it and the labs were a big success this year.
Have to run to the airport so I'll have to try and post some more at a later time after I settle back in and go through all the presentations. Speaking of hands on labs I am working with Mike Nader to get all his content posted on the ODTUG site, hopefully by early next week.

To all my fellow villagers I say "see ya next year"


Always a villager - Gary

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