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I think about making a similar move all the time - every company out there has bits of data in different systems that need to be pulled together without a multi
by tom_b 16y ago
I think about making a similar move all the time - every company out there has bits of data in different systems that need to be pulled together without a multi-million $$ business intelligence effort.
If I was making a change in this direction, here is what I would look for:
1 - contract job listings or small consulting firms that do data warehousing, ETL dev, and reporting.
2 - Mid-size companies in a specific industry that need this type of custom reporting. Financial services companies are immediate targets.
One caveat - my personal search has indicated that many companies are tightly (very tightly) bound to using a report solution from a big vendor (Sas, Cognos, MS, or Microstrateg) and will probably NOT deviate from that platform. These types of places view reports using a specific provider as a very good thing seeing how they can hire report devs with that exact skillset when they need new reports or additional data sources added in.
This vendor tie-in extends into ETL tools (eg, you'll see lots of job requests for Informatica or AbInitio skills)
- justajoe 16y agoYeah, I think you've hit the nail on the head here. I firmly believe a good platform could be custom built in a short amount of time and allow the business to realize the value of their data months or even years earlier than would happen going the route of a big vendor's solutions...however the bureaucracy within a large organization would always red light such an effort. To put it another way, no one ever get fired for using SAS.