PerformancePoint Blog

Just about 14 years ago, I was hired as a full-time employee at Microsoft. It was my first “grown-up” job with a desk, a phone, Pentium machines, and printed manuals (remember those?). I supported Microsoft Access, and I loved it. Shortly afterwards I discovered SQL Server, data warehousing and business intelligence. Damn, I was lucky.

Microsoft has been a great place to work, with many (many, many, many) people smarter than I am to lean on and help me grow. I wouldn’t be where I am now without my blue badge.

However, I’ve managed to stumble into what I think will be another one of those “damn lucky” opportunities. I’m going to work for Tableau Software.

Over last year’s Christmas break, I played with a sampling of BI tools from “the new kids on the block”.  In fact, I wrote about some of my experiences here. Working with Tableau Desktop, however…it shifted my frame of reference around what business intelligence can be both quickly and dramatically (and for me, the beauty of Tableau is that I can continue to use it with products that I know and love like SQL Server ant SharePoint).

I’ll be joining Tableau as a Business Consultant in late-July, and I’m excited as hell.

I’m frankly not sure what will happen to performancepointblog.com: I’ll definitely keep it up. However, I tend to blog about what I do, so I suspect a new data visualization blog with a Tableau focus will make a debut sometime in the near future.

“Thanks!”, Microsoft…and “Hello”, Tableau!