Expanding BI horizons

[blom0344]

As an almost 'lifelong' Business Objects specialist I am currently trying to fathom Cognos8. (Well, I have to, since the focus of my companies division is focused on Cognos tools) Apart from BO my background is ETL (Informatica;DTS) and the usual range of RDBMS (including AS400/MsAccess)
I have worked both as developer (frontend/backend), administrator(BO/Powercenter) and on a limited scale as an architect (mainly in the retail market).
I have worked on a daily basis with most SQL dialects for almost 20 years now and looking forward to working with MDX within Cognos8.
Apart with various relational concepts I dabbled a bit with Analysis services building OLAP cubes, offline cubes and frontends within Excel2003.
Looking forward to sharing my experiences with the experts within this community.
Most of web-activities are with a bunch of forums on www.tek-tips.com where you can find me as blom0344 as well.

Currently working for Healthcare division of Getronics in the Netherlands.

Cheers and see you...