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A lot of changes in the air... Since late last year, many of my clients put their development plans on hold, due to shrinking budgets or simply fear about where the economy was going. I'm seeing some positive signs again, which gives us all hope. Analytics projects are often the first to be frozen in a down economy (we still have a lot of evangelism to do!) and my conversations with many software vendors out there has taken a more informal route of late (which is great, but it doesn't pay the bills!). Therefore, after much soul searching, I'm excited to annouce that in Q1-09 I accepted a position within the Performance Management group at IBM.

While this role will give me the freedom and flexibility to continue my writings, I will be focusing more time on smaller/quicker updates via Twitter rather than lengthy analyses on this blog. I encourage you to follow my updates here, or contact me directly if you have any specific questions, or are begining a BI evaluation.

I have several blog articles that I have written in the past few months as I was transitioning into IBM and I will post them up here soon. They include some up-to-date coverage of SaaS analytics and in particular some of the technical challenges around multi-tenancy, as well as an analysis of a few new BI vendors. In the meantime, keep in touch with comments or direct email and let me know what you are interested in hearing about!