My First Post here – Joining Rittman Mead
June 22nd, 2009 by Venkatakrishnan J
As you might have read from Mark’s post here, i now have officially joined Rittman Mead. And this is the big news that i had alluded to in my blog post last week here. This is pretty exciting from a personal standpoint as RM has an excellent team of end to end Oracle BI experts.
I had resigned from Oracle a month back after the BI Forum. My role in Oracle and my role here in Rittman Mead would more or less be the same. But the big question is what happens to my older blog. Well, i still have not thought about it completely to be honest. I am still in discussions with Mark to see whether we can move the contents over here. Moving 300 odd posts would not be an easy task. So, till the posts are moved or a decision has been arrived at, you can still access them there. But if you feel that the older site should remain as is, please leave a comment here.
Moving away from Oracle was probably one of the toughest decisions that i had to take after nearly a 5 year long association. Oracle is probably one of the most well organized companies out there and i am proud to have been part of that big organization. Sometimes you get amazed by the openness that exists there. I do really cherish all the nice little moments that i had over at Oracle. I would miss responding to the internal mailing list questions (which i had actually stopped 6 months back). I would miss the 2 hour long drive from my home to the Oracle office everyday. But sometimes these decisions would have to be taken and i am pretty sure whatever i have taken is correct.
The transition to RM should not be tough as it is managed by excellent professionals like Mark and Jon. I have been interacting with Mark for the last 5 months over email and i met him personally in the BI Forum. Its pretty sad that i have not been able to present with him in the ODTUG Kaleidoscope conference this year due to some last minute changes. But i am looking forward to the Open World as that gives me another opportunity to present with him.
One of the good things about me being part of RM is the fact that i am more reachable. So, if you want to involve me in any aspect of an Oracle BI implementation just send an email to me at venkat@rittmanmead.com or send it over to Mark/Jon at info@rittmanmead.com. We would be glad to take the conversation to the next stage.
And yes watch out for more blog entries in my new location here.
June 22nd, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Congratulations and Good Luck Venkat.
June 22nd, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Congrats Venkat. You joined a great group.
As for your blog, mash it into here. Give us the one stop shop for BI posts :-)
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:23 am
Good luck Venkat!
Keep posting! it’s doesn’t matter were, google will find your ! ;-)
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:44 am
Venkat,
all the best for your new engagement. Keep up the good foot and I would love to see all your splendid posts in the context of rittmanmead.com (if technically feasible).
Best wishes
@lex
June 23rd, 2009 at 11:26 am
Congratulations on joining the formidable group!!
June 23rd, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Congratulations! And best of luck! Of course I could not wait to blog about it :-)
June 24th, 2009 at 4:06 am
Congratulations and Good Luck to you.
Pls dont move your blogs to here.
June 24th, 2009 at 5:33 am
Hi Venkat,
all my best wishes for you and your new challenge.
Keep up your good work with posting, it is of great support to all of us.
And of course Congrats to Rittman Mead, this is really a “lucky strike” !
Venkat, have a good start and so long,
Andreas
June 24th, 2009 at 7:50 am
Congrats Venkat!!
Suggest not to move ur prev blogs but yet can keep a madh up over here
Regards
Veena
June 25th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Congratulation to both Mark and Venkat. Mark you are true follower of Oracle’s policy, but here you beat oracle it self and acquired Oracle’s asset itself.
All the best and looking forward to see the Blog merger and have one stop shop for BI solutions.
Cheers
June 25th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Hi venkat, congratulations…. good luck. we will keep in touch…
cheers.
June 25th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Great to see the 2 blogs I frequent most merge :)
Darryn
July 8th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Hi Venkat ,
Congrats on joining MR,
I would beleive , it would be better if u keep u r old blog ,and add new content in both places,
Remember u r known becoz that blog,plz try to keep that identity, also lot of people just know ur blog itself,and wouldn’t refer to other blogs,
Also the content organization is way better than MR, also colour of website :) ..
Great work venkat