About Author/Blog
The Author –
It’s boring to write about myself, especially, in first person. Here is a alternate view to the bio without having it to look like my resume -
The author of this blog is Guru S Kirthigavasan. During the last decade as a software consultant, Guru has been specializing in enterprise-wide Business Intelligence solutions including Distributed Data Warehouses, Data Modelling and OLAP Reporting. He currently(from 2008) works for Microsoft Corporation.
Guru enjoys books, movies, future technology and robots. He also writes a personal blog, scribbles of a lazygeek for the last 8 years and lives at Bellevue, Washington. You can reach him at guru[at]g2b2.com.
The Blog –
The world of Business Intelligence as of today, is damn exciting. The enterprises are moving towards more BI deployments. The vendors are employing more resources to churn out better BI tools and applications. And the extent to which Business Intelligence is playing a quintessential role in business today, excites me as a BI professional. It freaks me out sometimes!!
Ever since I got into the Business Intelligence world, I’ve been eyeballing the BI news sites for updates on BI initiatives and product roll-outs. While there are numerous resources on the net, there is no all-encompassing blog just for Business Intelligence. Business Intelligence bloggers are sometimes too specific to their areas of specialty and the big picture goes missing.
Being a blogger myself for nearly 6 years now, I was hoping to create a niche Business Intelligence Blog for some time. Couple of months back, before this The BI Blog came into existence, I created nextbi.com. And I’ve been playing with the templates to make it simpler. Yeah, Minimalist is the way to go. Finally, I concluded with the name, The Business Intelligence Blog or The BI Blog. Few of my colleagues also agreed that thebiblog.com was much simpler than nextbi.com. In less than 2 hours after the decision, TheBiBlog.com was bought, I hosted WordPress and kick-started the blog. Just to show, how easy it is to setup a blog. The tough part is to to keep it going.
Professionally I’ve been working on BI for nearly 7 years now (hey, its 2006 when I’m writing this). I’ve implemented Business Intelligence for enterprises and worked with some very interesting analytics. Right from designing BI systems to deploying and maintaining them, its always been a pleasure to work although the volume of data out there, still ready to be analyzed is just baffling. Oh!! Yeah, let me state the obvious, this blog has nothing to do with my employer or any of their clients. Whatever that’s written here are my personal opinions and comments.
This BI blog has a very simple motive. It’s just a BI guy’s enthusiasm to chronicle the exciting period of Business Intelligence technology, as it stands today. So hop on and let’s attempt to blog the next big stride of Business Intelligence.
- Guru
A rainy seattle day, June 2006
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Best regards,
Byron Mignanelli
7 Apr 08 at 8:07 am
Hi Guru,
My client has developed what I believe is a breakthrough BI reporting tool for SQL and other relational data sources as well as OLAP. It targets the USA market. The software is known as RSVP – Reporting Software for Visualization and Performance.
It is wizard-driven and promises to dramatically cut the cost and time taken to develop enterprise class BI reports. It also promises to actually draw in increased numbers of regular business users with a choice of three very attactive report user interfaces that are a pleasure to use. It’s available as a free download from my client’s website http://www.intelligencebusiness.com .
I would be very grateful if you found time to download RSVP from http://www.intelligencebusiness.com and let us know what you think of it.
Many thanks, Noel.
Noel Coburn
30 Oct 08 at 3:29 am
Hello,
I own a business intelligence website and would like to market your blog for free in my blog library would you mind if I did so? You can check out the website if you would like as I am looking for reputable BI and technology experts.
http://www.businessintelligenceonline.org
Thank You
Matt Spight
Matt Spight
13 Aug 09 at 9:38 am
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Steve
Steve Raack
5 Jan 10 at 11:03 pm
Hi Guru,
Why is it that QlikView is NOT mentioned in your blog as a BI vendor? I stumbled on your blog hoping to read how end users and developers experience QlikView. But nothing there! And we have been there since 1993 and gained some attention from competition and Gartner.
I hope to read a bit more the next time I log in here.
just in case: http://www.QlikView.com ;-)
Niels
Niels van der Kaaij
9 Mar 10 at 8:45 am