{"id":3573,"date":"2012-06-22T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.simple-talk.com\/uncategorized\/welcome-to-the-red-gate-bi-tools-team-blog\/"},"modified":"2016-07-28T10:50:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T10:50:50","slug":"welcome-to-the-red-gate-bi-tools-team-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/blogs\/welcome-to-the-red-gate-bi-tools-team-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Red Gate BI Tools Team blog!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the first ever post on the brand new Red Gate Business Intelligence Tools Team blog!<\/p>\n<h2>About the team<\/h2>\n<p><b>Nick Sutherland (product manager):<\/b> After many years as a software developer and project manager, Nick took an MBA and turned to product marketing. SSAS Compare is his second lean startup product (the first being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/products\/sql-development\/sql-connect\/?utm_source=simpletalk&amp;utm_medium=weblink&amp;utm_content=biblog1\">SQL Connect<\/a>). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/npsutherland\">Follow him on Twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>David Pond (developer): <\/b>Before he joined Red Gate in 2011, David made monitoring systems for Goodyear. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/d_j_pond\">Follow him on Twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Jonathan Watts (tester):<\/b> Jonathan became a tester after finishing his media degree and joining Xerox. He joined Red Gate in 2004. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/whatie\">Follow him on Twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>James Duffy (technical author):<\/b> After a spell as a writer in the video game industry, James lived briefly in Tokyo before returning to the UK to start at Red Gate.<\/p>\n<h2>What we&#8217;re working on<\/h2>\n<p>We launched a beta of our first tool, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/labs\/ssas-compare\/?utm_source=simpletalk&amp;utm_medium=weblink&amp;utm_content=biblog1&amp;utm_campaign=ssascompare\">SSAS Compare<\/a>, last month. It works like SQL Compare but for SSAS cubes, letting you deploy just the changes you want. It&#8217;s completely free (for now), so check it out. We&#8217;re still working on it, and we&#8217;re eager to <a href=\"http:\/\/redgate.uservoice.com\/forums\/164814-ssas-compare?utm_source=simpletalk&amp;utm_medium=weblink&amp;utm_content=biblog1&amp;utm_campaign=ssascompare\">hear what you think<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We hope SSAS Compare will be the first of several tools Red Gate develops for BI professionals, so keep an eye out for more from us in the future.<\/p>\n<h2>Why we need you<\/h2>\n<p>This is your chance to help influence the course of SSAS Compare and our future BI tools. If you&#8217;re a business intelligence specialist, we want to hear about the problems you face so we can build tools that solve them. What do you want to see? Tell us!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be posting more about SSAS Compare, business intelligence and our journey into BI in the coming days and weeks. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the first ever post on the brand new Red Gate Business Intelligence Tools Team blog! 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