I would like to take a quick moment to speak about how Full 360 is doing. We have had broad interest in the Agile Data Warehouse and Oracle BI in the Cloud. We have signed up our first few customers, with our first customer going into production end of this month, our first OEM customer, and our first minor dustup with the analyst community over our use of the "Agile Data Warehouse" trademark.

Not only have we taken on our first ADW customers, we have been expanding the core ADW team. The recent arrivals include: 

 

Eric Valenzuela, who is our field engineer, helping on the customer implementations. Born in South Texas, and living in the great city of Austin since attending the University of Texas.  Eric began his IT career straight out of school with KPMG and from there has been an independent consultant till joining Full360.  Finance and business intelligence came out of managing a bottle water company post the dot bomb.  He figured that IT may crater but everyone needs water to drink and live.  After selling the water company Eric embarked on the world to teach the lessons of Business Intelligence and finance. Eric has done sojourns in Singapore, California for Full 360 in our Hyperion Practice before joining ADW team. Apart from that, Eric enjoys in his free time listening to music, cycling, and travelling. 

Jeremy Winters, a recent addition to Full 360 and the ADW, who will be the lead architect and data warehouse designer on ADW implementations. Born in New Jersey, raised in Arizona, with stops in Seattle and San Francisco before landing in NYC 5 years ago. Jeremy started his career in the Internet/Media industries during the dot com boom, inevitably moving on to Financial Services and consulting with a focus on Business Intelligence tools.  In his free time, Jeremy enjoys building computer music programs, electronics projects, travel, and living in New York City! His site is http://www.themoodchannel.com

 

It is also our privilege to have Rob Tholeimeier joining as our resident BI evangelist. Rob Tholemeier is a long-time investor and Business Intelligence practitioner.  He will be advising Full360 on business strategy and evangalizing BI, SaaS-BI, and opensource-BI. You will be seeing a lot more of him on this blog. Rob’s mission is to drive down the cost, and drive out the complexity of using BI technology, such that the “I” in BI ROI is so low that we trigger a massive wave of users experimenting with their data in unique ways. Rob lives with his wife in historic Punta Gorda, Florida, and has a daughter studying chemistry at UC, Berkeley. (Yup, he and Larry are the "wise old ones" at Full 360 <grin>)

While our team here is expanding, we are also getting smaller and more focused. We are separating from our off-shore arms in India and Singapore so we can focus on our unique Business Intelligence in the cloud offerings. We found that an offshore Business Intelligence consulting can be tricky at best, and stressful at worst (that's a whole other post).

There are a few more updates, but I have to wait for some of the legalities to finalize before I can announce them, so stay tuned!