Today is the first day of the Cubegeek blog, which I will refer to from here on out as Cubegeek. It will update the old thing called Cubegeek which is now known as Cubegeek News. Cubegeek News has been around a couple years and gets a little bit of traffic but nothing works quite like blogs for networking. As soon as the subdomain is up and working, this blog will move to the root.
In the meantime, a brief introduction. I'm Michael Bowen and I work for a medium sized consulting firm. I'm a former employee of Xerox, Pilot Software, Arbor Software and Hyperion, and I've got over 20 years in the business, with about 6 of them with my own businesses. I specialize in Business Intelligence which is the broad results-driven end of ERP, DW, OLAP and BPM. If you don't know what those acronyms stand for, this blog might still be worth your while, because I'll be talking about them regularly.
My aim is to raise the general awareness of the practice of Business Intelligence and serve as a general outpost for both professional practitioners of the art and science of BI as well as for users and owners of BI systems.
I will regularly talk about vendors and products, technologies and trends, tricks and techniques as well as issues peripheral to the industry. I'm also willing to entertain guest bloggers under the Cubegeek banner. I will also talk about experiences at customers but i will preserve the anonymity of those customers as well as individuals at those sites, but I'll probably get very specific about their systems. I am perfectly flexible about this and have no desire to be like 'f-d company'.
My bias is towards products that work, period. As well, I have limits with my own personal experience, so I'll say straight out that much of what I say may sound biased. I'm not going to go out on a limb talking about grandiose theories and abstract methodologies, but hardball systems stuff that works. I hope I don't rub too many people the wrong way. I don't know everything, but I'm enthusiastic about what I do know because I love the field and I love building systems.
As Dozer said, we're in for exciting times.
