Independent blogs by Ideaca employees providing insights on business, technology and strategies in between.
Ruven Gotz Ben Harper Greg Carnie Simon Worth David Keith Jeff Rickard
As a consultant who leads SharePoint projects from early planning through deployment, Ruven deals with questions and decisions at many different levels. Ruven’s key expertise is in the design, planning, IA area, I feel that it is important for me to have a strong technical understanding of how SharePoint works. I am not an infrastructure expert, a designer or a developer, but I try to understand these areas as deeply as I can to be able to understand the range of solution possibilities and to make sure that I understand the approaches that my implementation team is taking.
About Ruven: Ruven is a senior SharePoint consultant who has been architecting and delivering successful technology solutions for over 20 years. Working as a Business Analyst and Information Architect, Ruven is able to apply his eclectic education and varied experience in Psychology, Computer Science, Economics, Business, Software Development and Training to get to the heart of complex problems. Ruven has spoken at numerous events and conferences throughout Canada and the United States. he is scheduled to speak at the upcoming SharePoint Technical Conference in Boston, October 2010.
SharePoint related blog covering various aspects of development, infrastructure, as well as strategies for utilizing SharePoint to solve business problems.
About Greg: Greg is a SharePoint consultant (Business Analyst by title) with Ideaca Knowledge Services based in Calgary, Canada. Greg has been actively working with SharePoint for over four years now and have been specializing more in the developmental and architectural aspects of SharePoint. In a previous life I worked both with SAP and Microsoft Exchange.

Insightful exploration of the intrinsic qualities of leadership and how to utilize them in our everyday environment to create a positive and productive work place.
About Dave: Dave is regional Sales Manager for Western Canada, David Keith is presently accountable for the leadership around Ideaca’s sales and delivery for our six lines of business in Western Canada.Dave works with his team to set the strategies and processes for engagement on key projects.
Another Son of MarthaA software engineer's view of application and integration architecture, Microsoft Server products and development with Microsoft technologies.
Problems and solutions for development and deployment of Dynamics AX Enterprise Portal 2009, aimed at the newbie to EP development.
About Ben: With a degree in Software Engineering, Ben Harper has been a consultant with Ideaca since 2004. He is currently an Integration and Application Architect there and spends much of his time designing and building solutions with BizTalk Server, Dynamics CRM, Dynamics AX (Enterprise Portal) and other .NET- and web-based technologies. Outside work he enjoys spending time with his family, singing, traveling, reading and playing games.
Covering all things SQL Server and SQL Server Business Intelligence. Integration Services, Analysis Services, Reporting Services, PerformancePoint, and SharePoint. From low level system behaviours to high level theory - with a nice mix of the in between.
About Simon: Simon Worth has 10 years of experience in business intelligence solutions using the Microsoft Business Intelligence technology stack. His technical expertise in Data Architecture, Data Modelling, Performance Tuning, Best Practices and Standards, is complemented with his business experience in finance, marketing, and sales.

A simple general diary to keep track of the years. The stories here depict real events, the names and faces have been changed to protect the innocent.
About Jeff: Spectacular, wonderful, miraculous and stupendous are all words that have been used around Jeff. Often times his blog reflects this sentiment, but more often it is filled with exceedingly long words and very specific class names that reference the esoteric inner workings of the various tools and code that he has implemented. Jeff has been a developer and comedian, going on 9 years now. His hobbies involve Climbing, Hiking, Camping, Spending time with his not quite 2 year old daughter, making up internet memes and Video Gaming.