I started writing this recap at the airport in San Jose, waiting for my flight back to Seattle, but the article got a bit longer than I thought so I’m just not finishing it up here on Monday.  As expected, the conference itself was great, the food was even better, and it was fun meeting [...]

The highly regarded Essbase figure Tim Tow of Applied OLAP called me the other day to inform me that my submissions for ODTUG were accepted! Details are still being worked out, but the focus of the first talk will be on data load optimization (a matter very near and dear to my heart) as well [...]

Last year in New Orleans, the Hyperion track at ODTUG was an unqualified success.  It was such a success, in fact, that hundreds of abstracts were submitted for next years conference in Monterey.  I submitted two of those, so wish me luck.  I’d like to talk about an end-to-end Essbase automation system profiling/performance/optimization effort which [...]