Pun intended? he he

You're right though, and it's sometimes very difficult to put down your lovely powerful...

I would absolutely love to see some of the big BI solutions worked on in an "agile" way to understand how they do it.

We find it extremely difficult because of...

oh dont get me wrong - I dont like that selling point, and I 100% agree - it can't be trusted.

As part of that "5% of users" (working within "the...

I think the selling point for the simple Excel and Access files is the ability to easily manipulate them.

People like to put their own mark on things.

Oh yea - really hard, but a lot easier than months and months of itterations.

I think we're in a fairly good position in that most of our users are pretty...

From my experience Dirk, the users genuinely dont know what they want.

Giving them power pivot allows them to play with the data until they get what they want. We can...

Oh TOTALLY agree to both of you!

Our company has recently been taken overy by another company, creating a huge company. We're now doing the BI for it, and it's giving...

Plus the sheer cost! As far as memory serves, we pay contractors about 5 times that of a permanent staff member here.

ah, ok - I must confess, I just put a space after the first "I" and thought that it made sense! :-No offence intended!!

stephen k. gartrell (7/21/2010)

IANAL, but I find myself forced to contemplate a class action on behalf of the American people in defense of...

Surely though Stephen, a decent SAN Admin would recognise that (s)he hadn't been given enough information or that the person making the request didn't understand SANs enough, and then ask...

I totally agree that at least a little insecurity is good.

This might sound ungrateful, but my job is too secure!

I was recently blocked from taking a secondment I was offered...

Ah not going to happen I'm afraid - I work for a bank so bringing my own gear in is a big no no :-1 it is for now 🙂

Totally agree with you on that Damus, although I dont have my dual screens at work any more 🙁

Oh that made me chuckle! I love...