Back to Blogging – and some good advice for your next BI project ;-)
It’s quite a while since my last blog and I’m not quite sure how the frequency of new entries will develop in the next time… Some things changed in the last weeks and all are connected to my new employer www.avanade.com. It’s really a great company, a joined venture of www.accenture.com and www.microsoft.com bringing together Accenture’s business expertise with the Microsoft technology we (hopefully) all love…
My job is still closely connected to Business Intelligence, perhaps even more than before. It’s also still very technology focused while my colleague Markus, who moved to Avanade with me, is concentrating on the business side. So we’re now a small little team focusing on BI here in Germany (worldwide we have quite a number of people experienced in Business Intelligence projects) and there are some indicators which make me feel confident that there will be a significant growth in the future. SQL Server 2005 is knocking on our doors and I would be very surprised if not quite a number of companies will let it in.
Currently Avanade is working on an ETL framework bringing together the best practices of many BI projects around the world with the very new things coming up with SQL Server 2005. We can use the experience from SSIS implementations we just finished or which are getting ready for the customer soon.
Together with some other toolsets Avanade offers a very solid foundation for delivering Microsoft based IT projects. So if you’re looking for a partner to develop an enterprise BI solution I have a very good suggestion for you ;-))
And I’ll still try to keep you up-to-date with interesting things I find out. You’re also welcome to give me feedback and if you have any suggestions what you would like to read about at this place, please let me know!
Thomas