Kevin Berens – Product Architect

Over the last 20 years, Kevin has worked in the Business intelligence space (either as a customer or delivering software products).  He has a broad and diverse business background that helped him develop a strong understanding of the management and reporting challenges faced by our customers today. He spent 5 years at American Express/First Data Corporation where as a customer he faced the challenges with reporting tools that our users face each and every day.  Over the last 15 years, he has worked to develop and sell products that help users solve these reporting challenges (both for mid-market and enterprise level customers). Kevin was also a founder of FRx Software Corporation – a Microsoft subsidiary (formerly FRx Software), spending 10 years with varying roles – ranging from Product Specialist to Product Sales Manager to VP of Development. After FRx was purchased by the Microsoft Business Solutions Division in 2000. He continued on with Microsoft with his latest accomplishment being a Lead Program Manger on the PerformancePoint Server team where he helped deliver enterprise level Business Intelligence solutions to the Enterprise Performance Management market.

My Posts:

Rivet customers recognizing the benefits of XBRL for analyzing data takes only seconds

At a time when most companies are seeking out software vendors to assist them with their XBRL tagging,  our customers are seeing not only how Rivet can help them with this process, but also the huge benefit that can be recognized with XBRL.   In fact, it is so easy to create these reports, that during [...]

Creating XBRL reports, so easy a customer can do it (in a demo)

Creating a report that compares your company to every company in your SIC code used to be so difficult. You needed to determine the companies in your SIC code.  You needed to find the data for each company and download this into an Excel spreadsheet.  You needed to then create a bunch of formulas to [...]

The impact of Agile development and what it means to the CrossTag customer PT 2

How product innovation is combined with feedback from customers – the evolution of CrossTag for XBRL tagging
In my last entry, I talked about how customer feedback was incorporated into the product. However, we try to balance feedback from customers in conjunction with product ideas that we think would benefit our users
In the spring release we [...]

The impact of Agile development and what it means to the customer PT 1

How feedback from customers get into the product – the evolution of CrossTag for XBRL tagging
What is Agile development (using a Wikipedia reference):
Agile software development is a group of software development methodologies that are based on similar principles. Agile methodologies generally promote a project management process that encourages frequent-
Stop – Stop – Stop
As a [...]