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

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Kaleidoscope 2010 - Hyperion agenda publshed

I am very pleased to announce that the Hyperion SIG board has finalized the 2010 Kaliedoscope Hyperion schedule. (Please click the link to view) Keep in mind some minor changes could be made in the cases where speakers are unable to attend and stuff like that.

This schedule is one of the best we have had and shows that Kaliedoscope is THE national conference for Hyperion users and developers.

Please check out the schedule and consider making plans to attend.

I would like to thank the entire board for there efforts in putting together such an awesome schedule and thanks to ODTUG for providing us with the forum to host such an event. Special thanks to Edward Roske for being the content coordinator.

although we are taking a short break for the holidays, the board will be reconvening in January to continue our planning sessions to ensure this year's conference exceeds attendee's expectations. Looking forward to seeing all of you there.

Please check out ODTUG Kaliedoscope for more information on the conference.
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