Business Objects Jobs

[BobOBob]

Hello all
I am new to this forum. I am a Business Objects Developer with 5 Yrs permie exp, thinking of contracting.

1) Is the market good for Business Objects contracting recently?
2) What is the average rate for BO now?
3) Which Agencies are good for BO?
4) Overall would you recommend to go for contracting with BO, CrystalReports skillset?

Your help is much appreciated.

Cheers

[MobileCheese]

Hello all
I am new to this forum. I am a Business Objects Developer with 5 Yrs permie exp, thinking of contracting.

1) Is the market good for Business Objects contracting recently?
2) What is the average rate for BO now?
3) Which Agencies are good for BO?
4) Overall would you recommend to go for contracting with BO, CrystalReports skillset?

Your help is much appreciated.

Cheers

Hi,

There is alot of BO work out there at the moment IMO, mainly due to the fact the BO went quickly from v5 to v6 and then to XI, so lots of migration work out there. Also IMO there isnt alot of good BO people out there, alot of people dable (knocked up a simple report) but thats it, finding people with a detailed knowledge of its products and what it can actually do is diffcult. Also alot of work providing BO training.

BO is a very broad product set these days and rates reflect this. A noddy report writer only could be as low as £350 aday (London). For someone with good experience (5 years plus) and good experience of complex universe design (contexts, aggregate awareness, multiple dataproviders - linking) and report design (calculation contexts, variables etc) development, able to install their enterprise products ie Webi / Infoview, Performance Manager be it Unix or Windows across v5, v6 and XI, you would look for £450 plus maxing out around £575. I've never seen massive rates though ie £600 plus for BO

To get the higher end rate you would also need to have good database knowledge ie good SQL data warehouse design concepts etc. Basically top end rates go to someone who can do all the back end db work ie set up the db create the jobs to load the tables, design and build the the universe on top, install the front end ie Webi / Info and front end work and build the reports.

If you want BO work I would focus on the BO side of there product and not Crystal reports.

Have a look on Jobserve and just see how many BO jobs come up there is loads.

Good luck

[BobOBob]

Thank you very much MobileCheese for the detailed info.
I will post my cv over jobserve and see what happens.

Is there anyother specialised site / agency for BO or BusinessIntelligence?

And how would it work with the notice period in contracting. Would anyone even consider if I have to give a 4 week notice in my current job?

Thanks

[malvolio]

Ermm, no.

[MobileCheese]

Thank you very much MobileCheese for the detailed info.
I will post my cv over jobserve and see what happens.

Is there anyother specialised site / agency for BO or BusinessIntelligence?

And how would it work with the notice period in contracting. Would anyone even consider if I have to give a 4 week notice in my current job?

Thanks

There is some site / agency thing called daylightresources or something but I dont know anyone who has used them. Ive had most luck with jobserve pretty much all angcy deal with BO. Not sure where u want to work but I dont see many contracts up north unfortantly most seem to be london, south / midlands.

Im managed to get my first contract when on permy 4 weeks notice, but it was diffcult, I was lucky. If you price yourself well though for you first contract you may find clients more accommadating to your notice period.

[threaded]

Alwats add £10 to what the agent quotes.

[ChimpMaster]

Alwats add £10 to what the agent quotes.

I think you dropped a zero there Thread

[andy]

From the thread title I thought we are discussing body odour here.