Hello.

Well that is a very unoriginal but at least polite introduction to my new blog.

What is this blog about? Well right now nothing. It is an experiment really. This is a place for me to discuss and explore my passion for intelligence. Human intelligence? Animal intelligence? No. Nothing so exciting. I'll be looking at intelligence that is important to many many people out in the world. The intelligence of commerce. Business Intelligence.

I will explore what makes business intelligence work. What does not. I will look at the methodologies for introducing and running business intelligence in the enterprise. Am I an expert? No. But I have worked in the business and IT space around reporting, information management, data governance, data warehousing and ETL for some 10 plus years. My experience is primarily in Oracle database and Cognos Business Intelligence technologies. I have been involved in the full development life cycle of business reporting projects and I have learned a few things on what works and more importantly what does not work when one undertakes a business intelligence project.

As I am a long way from knowing everything and because I am always willing to learn more I welcome the opportunity to be challenged in my beliefs on what works for BI. Over the upcoming weeks expect to see more as I put my thoughts together. I apologize up front if at first my posts seem a little disorganized. It will take me a little while to get used to this and workout what this tool can do.

In a way that apes what business intelligence is. BI is not a project but an evolving entity within the business. It needs to be dynamic and respond to changing business conditions so that it is adaptable to the needs of a dynamic organization. The business user will not always know what they don't know and often their needs will evolve as they use BI tools and solutions.  So in a way will this blog.  I really don't know what I don't know at the moment so as I use this blogger my expectations of the tool will change as my knowledge increases. In a way that is what life is about. This is what intelligence is. It is continuous learning and evolution.