A few weeks ago at Skanska, a film crew showed up at Skanska's office here in Charlotte to shoot some footage for a then-upcoming case study Microsoft was doing featuring Skanska and the work we've done with MS PerformancePoint Server. The crew spent the entire day onsite doing interviews with various department heads and directors, as well as getting general shots around the office. I didn't think much of it until my boss informed us recently that the film they shot was going to be used at the PerformancePoint global launch in New York a few days ago. The film along with MS's case study on Skanska and PerformancePoint has now been published to the MS website, as well as the video they shot onsite (~3 minutes long). Yours truly is featured in a couple of spots in the video, thankfully in a non-speaking role. Allen Emerick is the main focus; he's our boss and he also was part of the keynote at the launch event in NYC.

Even though I don't know much about PerformancePoint from a technical perspective, it's a pretty exciting product and Skanska is already doing quite a bit with it. I don't come from a strong BI background; one of the developers who sits next to me in the office is driving Skanska's uptake of PerformancePoint (he previously worked for a enormous ISV that specialized in retail BI custom applications, so he's definitely qualified for this role), so no doubt I'll be peeking over his shoulder on a regular basis trying to get some knowledge via osmosis. One of the things I really like about Skanska is their willingness to be early adopters of MS software in large production scenarios. We get to play with a lot of big toys early on in MS's dev cycle. Just one of many perks actually.

Sidenote: I'd like to extend a huge congratulations to Robert Mills (a former colleague and good friend of mine from Microsoft) for having made it through the Skanska interview process. He'll be joining our group in a developer capacity at the end of this month. I know he's got a ton to contribute to our team and am looking forward to working with him again after all these years.

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