ODTUG KScope comes full circle for me in New Orleans
I remember back in April 2008, it was the first spring following the end of the Hyperion Solutions conferences. As an avid Essbase user I was nervous about the future of my dear friend. I figured Oracle wouldn't kill the product and I was right, but in an inadvertent way they did kill a very important part of the Essbase community. The solutions conference was an annual event that brought together Hyperion people from all over the country (world actually) to meet and network around technology products that were core to our careers. Sure the conference was a bit fluff, many of the presentations were marketing slides with maybe a couple of tidbits of useful information, something we affectionately referred to as "Tips and Tricks". At the end of the conference you walked away with a few nuggets of information and mostly inspiration to try some new things. It was also an opportunity to network; meeting up with people who you may have communicated with a...