by Shane Gibson | Jun 21, 2013 | AgileBI, General
Following on from my first tip BI Platform in 3 months – Lesson #1 – Change your business owners engagement frequency the next area I wanted to cover is the challenge that is getting a hardware platform up and running. Lesson #2 – Use IaaS you cant...
by Shane Gibson | Jun 5, 2013 | Optimal Company
Sometimes I wonder if the big incumbent companies don’t innovate as much as they should because they are consciously defending their legacy revenue streams? It must be hard to say let’s go down this route because it makes sense and blow the fact that we...
by Shane Gibson | May 26, 2013 | Optimal Company
Ok I managed to not put it in the title but it comes back to the old give a man a fish vs teach a man to fish concept. I have been struggling to work out what the best options are to impart knowledge to others in a way they can consume it, but more importantly in a...
by Shane Gibson | May 22, 2013 | Data Integration, General
A few years ago when I first left SAS and started up OptimalBI, I took on the role of chairperson for the SAS New Zealand User group. As part of that role I started uploading the excellent presentations from each years SUNZ conference to slideshare. I had forgotten...
by Shane Gibson | May 19, 2013 | General, Optimal Company
Thinking back to all the places I have worked before I started OptimalBI, a lot of my memories are rose tinted (enhanced) or dark grey (clouded) by the culture that I perceived was endemic at the company at that time. Often the smaller team I was part of exhibited a...
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