Be careful what you say

I was interviewed for an article in Information Week a few weeks ago, The article was published yesterday. One of my quotes in the article caused some mild embarrassment. here it is:

“So we were looking for easy-to-use BI tool, knowing the GM for our division is very good with spreadsheets—he really likes to get in there and slice and dice the numbers—but also knowing that the tool needs to be simple enough for our sales guys to use easily and quickly.”

This was one of those good thing/bad thing quotes. Good because it makes my boss sound like a spreadsheet genius, and bad because it sounds like the sales folks don't know how to drive a spreadsheet.


I got a few calls. Some accusing me of being a shameless suck-up (I am), and others from sales folks volunteering to do spreadsheet work for me.

The full article can be found here.