Technology Blueprints & Strategy with Gary Crisci

As a Director on the ODTUG Board, I have the privilege of serving as the organization's Treasurer.  Some of my duties include overseeing the organization's financial reporting as well as budgeting and forecasts.  When I took over the role two years ago I did an assessment of our reporting capabilities and I was unhappy about our dependency on Excel as our primary reporting and analysis tool.  Our controller did a fantastic job of pulling the data each month for our close and finance review, but we were limited to the reports that were created and any follow up questions or curiosities that required digging deeper posed a challenge and required someone to go off and manually work on it. As an EPM professional, I knew there were better tools out there and my colleagues on the board agreed.  Of course this wasn't news, previous boards had also thought about this, but they were impaired by infrastructure requirements.  As a not-for-profit organization ODTUG runs o...

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 ...