Business Intelligence

So,

I am a Business Intelligence Professional now.

I felt as if all the OOP concepts I've learned are irrelevant now.

As a matter of fact, one can safely assume so. I am working on SQL Server 2008, Oracle10g, and Cognos8.

I felt a little disappointed that my previous efforts have become insignificant, but the train moves on...

Three months into work, I've been given a new Project involving Microsoft BI Suit.

I have always had a moderate dislike for anything Microsoft but this was a little different.

I learned then that MS BI suit is one of the cheaper yet feature rich Data warehousing suit in the market.

Working in SSIS after learning with Cognos8 feels somewhat like training SF guys with Tar-21 and issuing Lee-En-field once they complete training.

I have learned a great deal of UI tweaks in Cognos that are unavailable and out of scope for SSRS.

I felt embarrassed that I've been put in a less sophisticated tool.

But I was wrong.

SSIS thought a lot more then what Cognos did.

Not the UI tweaks but the SQL tweaks I was supposed to do to make things work.

In cognos I never thought I will need to edit any query again in my life.

But SSRS forced me to write every darn Query with hand. The Sub queries I used became more sophisticated and I was actually getting better that.

Three months of scalar efforts came to an end with the beginning of a small sized proj involving in SSRS+IS.

My team strength is 2. Both new to BI and SSRS. I was the lead and what I can lead was an senior resource who also happens to be a girl to add to the puzzle.

My Manager was new to BI as well, so I it adds to the Proj puzzle too.

None the less, work went on smoothly with few weeks of inactivity in between and it was entertaining none the less.