My OneStream Journey So Far...

This blog has been quiet for some time. That's largely because I've done quite a bit of writing (and experimenting!) for my employer, OneStream. If you're interested in that sort of thing, here's a brief list of my posts on the company blog:

• Building BiBlend table names, or: a classic tale of XFBR escapology
• The Dutiful Dead, or: A Tale Of Mixed DataSets
• Cultured Numbers, or: How To Avoid Problems With International Users
• Plant a Tree in your Member List!
• SELECT Like a Boss With Query Parameters
• Cool CubeViews with Custom GetDataCell Functions
• So You Want to Learn VB.NET - pt.3
• BiViewer Parameters Demystified - pt 2

Blogging about actual work stuff has been a lot of fun! And if you go reading those posts, check out other ones as well - some of the stuff my colleagues can do is just amazing. 

This said, the only constant in life is change. That means my contributions will probably slow down in the next few months, as I transition into a new role. Or maybe not! We'll see.

On OneStream

If you follow me on LinkedIn, you might have noticed that, about two years ago, I joined OneStream.

I've since refrained from writing about it, for a number of reasons: the product is massive, so it took a while to get to grasp with it; my new role kinda constrained what I could talk about; and I thought I wasn't particularly well-qualified yet to speak about the subject.

I recently attended the Splash conference for the first time. One of the things I brought home from San Antonio (together with a certain virus most people thought defeated) was the belief that, by now, I actually know a few things about OneStream - and there is a big hunger for that knowledge among clients and partners. The leadership is aware of this, so it was easy to get the greenlight on a few related projects.

This means that I'll be writing a bunch of posts in the next couple of months, on OneStream-related subjects. They might not be published here, but wherever they end up, I'll make sure to link them from here. I'm a geek, not a marketer, so they will be technical posts about getting stuff done; there is already plenty of material on why you should use OneStream for your planning and financial consolidation needs - what people need is to learn how you can do that, and that's where I'm going to help.

In the meantime, if you'd like me to cover a particular topic, feel free to reach out (here, on LinkedIn, or at my OneStreamSoftware.com address (glacava@).