This is my third week at Accelrys and now that I have a better understanding of the company and my duties, I thought it might be a good time to share that amongst the blogosphere. First off, let me take care of some personal questions I’m sure I’ll get (really just saving myself from a bunch of emails). While doing the consulting thing was fun, I really missed working with a team to deliver innovative solutions. So Agramont Services as a business is slowly winding down. Another key change is our family is relocating from Fredericksburg, Virginia to San Diego, California. I’m JUST going to miss the East Coast Winter. Nice! But even better, we’re moving to where I grew up and have a ton of family. For those of you whom I connect with via Facebook, you know of all of this already. Lastly, Accelrys primarly focuses on Science which I have zero background in. So what is an Enterprise/Hosting/Cloud/SaaS/Microsoft/.NET/Exchange/SharePoint/(you get the idea) guy doing at Accelrys? ….
OK, back to the business side…
From the Website: Accelrys helps organizations improve efficiencies through enterprise application of Scientific Business Intelligence software that can integrate, mine, model, analyze, manage and report complex scientific data.
I’m focused on Accelrys Pipeline Pilot which is Dataflow (different from workflow) which is both a platform for all of the other Accelrys products, but also platform for non-developers/knowledge workers/scientists to do powerful data integration, analysis, and reporting by simply drag and drop. Pretty sweet! Pipeline Pilot is growing in deployment size, scenarios, scale, and usage within an organization and is now requiring new features to support these scenarios. This is where I come in. I care about the Information Technology Professional (ITpro) who is responsible in planning, deploying, an operating Pipeline Pilot within Corporate IT or Business IT. In the coming months, I’ll start posting information, questions, best practices, etc. both here on my blog, our corporate blog, and/or via the Accelrys online community.
If you have questions or thoughts on IT related requirements for Accelrys Pipeline Pilot, please shoot me an email (cagramont –at- accelrys.com) or connect with me via this blog or follow me on twitter.