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Reposting the blog entry on my impressions of OBIEE vs MSTR (v8), the second part. It’s been a while since I last posted about anything remotely related to OBIEE or Microstrategy. I’ve had almost a year of picking up the Microstrategy side of the technology and gone through some headaches to get more accustomed to [...]

Here’s the initial post from my previous version of the blog that I wrote up on MSTR (v8 at the time) and OBIEE 10g comparisons. Having had a little more exposure to the Microstrategy application stack, specifically Version 8, I find they are fairly similar platforms. The differences end up being how to create Microstrategy [...]

Here’s a rendering of the new Transbay Terminal in downtown San Francisco: Will this be the vision of the future in downtown San Francisco on an old structure that has outlived its usefulness? Here’s what it is replacing currently: An old, Great Depression-era building that has seen its share of use over the past 70+ [...]

Update: Check the link here for the latest updates on San Francisco’s channel lineups. I had this up on my previous version of my blog so thought I’d repost this here to help those of you looking/searching through the digital channels without having the Comcast tuner and digital cable package. They don’t seem to work [...]

There are certain Business Intelligence (BI) vendors which make software that allow complete freedom to layout and design dashboards to whatever specifications, layout, theme and look-and-feel you want. There are others who have a set standard on how to lay them out, with some degree of flexibility on controlling the look-and-feel. Others would rather you [...]

Here’s the “unofficial” mascot of my blog, Frisco, the American Eskimo dog. He’s a miniature Eskie, a shelter dog which I freed from a dog shelter in Maryland, “Sneakers” style. (Have you seen this movie yet? Get it on your Netflix queue if you haven’t already.) He’s a bit yappy, over-protective, neurotic to the bone [...]

I admit I haven’t had much time to update my blog for quite some time. It has been all over the map in the past couple of years and I thought I would wipe the slate clean, renew my focus on what this should contain, and just continue to blog about it incessantly until: you [...]