Reply to: My New Contract

[cojak]

You're getting too good at this, Alexi...

[AtW]

I was given my job title today. Sales Operations Manager!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a groovy job title - much better than Backup Tapes Monkey

Milan.

[cojak]

This is nothing to a contractor of your calibre. MF!

If anyone can do a senior bull-sh1tter role, you can.

I have every faith in you

[spankmebono]

Better than Sales Operations Director

[MarillionFan]

I was given my job title today. Sales Operations Manager!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WTF!!!!!!!!!

[wonderwaif]

Of course. We're all here to help each other...aren't we? Aren't we??

Anything you want to know, just ask me,
I'm the world's most opinionated man.
I'll give you an answer if I can
Catch one passing through
That feels right for you.

Anything you want to know, just ask me,
It's worth every cent it costs.
And you know it's free for you,
Special deal.

Anything you want to know, it should be perfectly clear.
You see just beneath the surface of the mud,
There's more mud here...
Surprise.

Is there anything you want to know,
On any subject at all?
I've got time for one more question here,
Before I fall, fall

(Wonderwaif in 'AlfredJPruffock mode')

[Flubster]

is this help free?

i thought i had seen it all.....

Of course. We're all here to help each other...aren't we? Aren't we??

[kramer]

is this help free?

i thought i had seen it all.....

[MarillionFan]

Cheers. Expat, Flubster.

[expat]

Methinks you'll be needing that CV again sometime soon...

But when you do, it'll have BO & Siebel on it

I had one agent a few years ago tell me that if someone had 6 months Siebel he'd put them in as a senior consultant.

PS get a copy of Siebel Bookshelf on CD for yourself, and get a login for Siebel Support Web (read-only is OK - installations normally have one that they share, sometimes change pwd from time to time so if you trip across a 2nd, remember it too). Those are the 2 places that you find the info you need.

[Flubster]

Good luck, MF. There are some pre-built Siebel reports within Crystal/BO, but Siebel does have it's own BI product which is designed to utilise the existing Siebel security architecture. Designing BI/MI type reporting directly from Siebel is a P-I-G. I've have done it with SAS, but it was messy.

I'm on hand to help out if you want to PM me.

[MarillionFan]

Well, I'll see this one out for the rest of the year.
But it's been a little mis-sold.

[Mordac]

Methinks you'll be needing that CV again sometime soon...

[MarillionFan]

"I thought Business Objects was a "version" of Crystal... isernt it?"

Crystal Reports has always primarily been a reporting tool off relational databases. Billing, invoices, simple graphs etc. Started by Seagate Software, then Crystal Decisions it was purchased by Business Objects(A French company) a few years ago.

Business objects sits in the middle. It uses it's own 'universes' which are really just a combination of star schema and aggregrate tables and allows analysis of relational dbs through it's crunched universes.

Cognos,Proclarity are the analysis monkeys, working off huge datasets built normally off OLAP cubes etc.

So three levels. I do all three levels, but primarily CR.

Needless to say it's all MIS & BI.

hth

[t0bytoo]

I thought Business Objects was a "version" of Crystal... isernt it?