6:00 – 6:30 Pizza and Networking sponsored by RHI

6:30 – 6:40 Announcements

6:40 – 6:50 Paul S. Waters: Upcoming Local and PASS SQL Events

6:50 – 8:15 Scott Currie: Better with BI: How to use the best of large application development practices more effectively with Business Intelligence

8:15 – 8:30 Closing remarks and give-a-ways (maybe, short on them)

Better with BI: How to use the best of large application development practices more effectively with Business Intelligence
 
Talk Summary
In the past two decades, there have been substantial advances in application developer tools, team development processes, application lifecycle management, and a variety of software development models (including agile and SDLC).  While there has been some adoption in the business intelligence community, the current state of BI tools and frameworks present a variety of stumbling blocks to fully leveraging these advances.  As one concrete example, the use of SSIS (DTSX) packages and SSAS (CUBE/DIM) definitions with source control systems is highly problematic.  However, you can adopt many of the best practices and adapt others to work even more effectively for business intelligence than they do for application development. 
 
In this talk, Scott Currie will discuss some of the practical things that you can do today with examples from real world deployments at Fortune 100 companies.  Scott will also discuss the future and how to best prepare your projects for upcoming changes.
 
Biography
Scott Currie is the founder and CEO of Varigence, Inc., which offers a comprehensive collection of tools and frameworks for the Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform.  By leveraging the latest technologies from application development and programming language compilers, Varigence revolutionizes the way enterprises build, manage, and use Business Intelligence across their entire organizations.
 
Prior to founding Varigence, Scott worked for 7 years at the Microsoft Corporation.  Scott was the Program Manager for managed interoperability in the Visual C++ Compiler and the 64-bit Just In Time (JIT) compiler for the .NET Framework.  He also lead several important customer connection initiatives for the Developer Division at Microsoft including product feedback, product preview (CTP) and early adopter (TAP) programs, online crash analysis, and customer satisfaction measurements.  Scott later created and served as the Product Unit Manager for the Detego team at Microsoft, which was responsible for leveraging agile application development methodologies in the development of Business Intelligence solutions.
 
Scott graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with undergraduate majors in economics, mathematics, and computer science and a master's degree in computer science.