BPM Visionaries: Hello and Welcome to Solutions 2006!

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BPM Visionaries

This group blog features three influential Business Performance Management (BPM) Visionaries: Howard Dresner, Hyperion Chief Strategy Officer; Frank Buytendijk, Hyperion Vice President, Corporate Strategy; and Cindi Howson, Industry Analyst and President of ASK.

Throughout the Solutions 2006 conference, Howard, Frank, and Cindi will blog about what's going on at the Hyperion Solutions conference (April 23-26, 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada) and how (and why) BPM is changing corporate life. For other views of Solutions, see these related blogs:

Business School Perspectives, featuring Professor John Webster of Information Systems, Dakota State University
Technology and Innovation, featuring George Spofford, Distinguished Software Engineer, Hyperion

For more information about Hyperion products and services, visit the Hyperion web site and the Hyperion Developer Network.

Monday, April 24, 2006

Hello and Welcome to Solutions 2006!

As some of you may know, I left Gartner six months ago to join Hyperion as its new Chief Strategy Officer. It's been quite a change for me after 13 years at Gartner. I came from the vendor world before Gartner and spent part of my 13 years there as a "recovering vendor". So, now I'm getting reacquainted with being a vendor and am (for now) a "recovering analyst". However, I will work to keep a few important analyst traits - such as asking lots of questions.

People often ask, why did I leave Gartner and why did I join Hyperion. The answer to the first question is that I had done everything I had hoped to at Gartner and needed a new challenge and an opportunity to have a new kind of impact. Of course, many of you already know the answer to the second question. Hyperion's a great company with amazing people and a corporate culture that embraces personal, professional integrity and intense customer focus. I have been delighted at how helpful people have been and how open they are to new ideas.

As the market continues its shift towards BPM, I believe that Hyperion is entering an exciting new period of its history - one which I wanted to help make possible and be a part of.

Looking forward to meeting as many of you as I can in the next three days!!!!

Regards,

Howard

about the bloggers

Howard Dresner
Hyperion Chief Strategy Officer
Howard Dresner, chief strategy officer, joined Hyperion in 2005 from Gartner, where he was widely acknowledged as the preeminent authority on business intelligence. As CSO, Dresner is responsible for driving Hyperion’s business and corporate strategy, and acting as an evangelist for Hyperion’s vision for Business Performance Management. More about Howard Dresner

Frank Buytendijk
Hyperion Vice President, Corporate Strategy
Frank Buytendijk is Hyperion's vice-president for Corporate Strategy. He is based in Amsterdam, Europe and has a special focus on the EMEA region. Before that, Frank was a research VP for Gartner, covering business intelligence and performance management. He also has experience as a user of business intelligence tools, as a management consultant as a project manager and as a systems developer. More about Frank Buytendijk

Cindi Howson
Industry Analyst and President of ASK
Independent industry analyst Cindi Howson is the president of ASK, a BI Consultancy. She publishes in-depth product reviews on BIScorecard.com and teaches TDWI's "Evaluating BI Toolsets." Write to her at cindihowson@biscorecard.com.
More About Cindi Howson

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