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| Microsoft man is ´a valuable professional´ |
August 18th, 2008 |
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Marko Čulo, Microsoft certificate trainer for 2006 has renewed his prestigious Microsoft status as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for the accomplishments and expertise in the field of Microsoft SQL Server.
Marko works for Zagreb Company Comminus, and is one of the company’s MVP employees committed to its SQL Server Business Intelligence Platform.
In his free time he usually attends Microsoft custom groups as well as taking part in live debates with his engineer colleagues.
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Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities.
Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts that represents the technical community's best and brightest, and they share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others.
MVPs represent a broad spectrum of Microsoft product users. They occupy many different professions and reside in over 90 countries, represent 30 different languages, and cover more than 90 Microsoft technologies.
"MVP status binds me to a justified given credence, meaning the constant transmitting of knowledge, experience and skill", said Marko.
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| Comminus's employees again lecturers on Windays 2008 conference |
April 18th, 2008 |
Preconference training (April 21st 2008) wll be given by Marko Čulo, one of Comminus's MVP employees on the subject of "SQL Server Business Intelligence Platform". The lecture is devised as a practical elaboration with practical examples.
This year we are proud to have four lectures at the conference.
For the first time our team member Ivana Soldić will take part as one of the lecturers. The subject of the lecture will be Reporting Services 2008. This lecture will, through practical examples, introduce new possibilities of Reporting services that come with SQL Server 2008. In the new version, the system has been significantly improved – in terms of possibilities and as well as of engine processing and reporting preparation.
Ivana, our sincere congratulations and good luck!
The rest of three lectures will be given by two experienced and renowned lecturers with MVP certificate.
Krešimir Radošević with the subject of "SQL Server 2008 – thew view from inside". It will be a practical lecture on the new possibilities of SQL Server and in what way will that influence the implementation and system development based on this platform.
Marko Čulo will cover two BI subjects. The frst lecture's title is: "SQL Server 2008 Data Warehouse" that deals with making of quality data warehouse. "Master Data Management" is the topic of second lecture, which will introduce Microsoft's solution with the practical demonstration of the solution to tracking and relating the data across all the systems of business mangement.
More details on these lectures you can find on the web site: http://www.microsoft.com/croatia/windays/default.mspx
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| Microsoft SQL Server – future technology and specialization |
January 23rd, 2008 |
On today's cooperation agreement signed in the Algebra premises, the new strategic alliance has been introduced, made up between Algebra, the leading regional IT school and Comminus, Croatia's leading company in implementation and creation of solutions based on Microsoft SQL Server technologies.
The agreement refers primarily to conducting classes and creating a specialist training in the field of Microsoft SQL technologies. Algebra's task is to give people who want to develop preofessionally in IT field, a chance to attend seminars, to provide materials and give certificates, while Comminus will provide the lecturers: Krešimir Radošević, Marko Čulo, Ivana Soldić, Aleksandar Petrinić and Tomislav Matković. Although they are all experts in their field, it does not hurt to say that Krešimir Radošević and Marko Čulo have an internationally recognized certificate – Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) held by only 187 people in the world.
Algebra is the official host for all the seminars that are the subject of this exclusive partnership, while it is on Comminus to give expert support in the process of preparation, conducting classes and preparing of teaching materials for the new seminars.
Seminars that are the subject of this contract represent the official Microsoft seminars and there are 16 brand new seminars for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (marked with Microsoft codes from 2781 to 2797); based on the new program students get the certificates: IT Professional: Database Developer, IT Professional: Database Administrator, Technology Specialist: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence. Together with the existing seminars for Technology Specialist: SQL Server 2005, Algebra has in this way completed the whole offer and confirmed its position as a unique IT school for top MS SQL training and certification.
"According to Gartner research on market share of relation data base from mid 2007, in 2006 there was total sales growth and implementation of these systems by 14.2% on global level, in relation to the year before. Apart from showing the increased market need for implementation of relation data base, this research also shows increased need for qualified people. In our case, it is very important to point out that by far the biggest growth generates Microsoft SQL Server whose share grows twice as faster (28%) than market growth in this segment and we ourselves already feel extra need for MS SQL experts.", said Krešimir Radošević, Comminus CE upon signing the cooperation agreement.
Tomislav Dominković, Algebra chairman of the board said:"According to the research on the salaries of IT professionals, MCP magazine has been doing for years, it is clear that salaries in this sector are above average and that they vary depending on the specialization for a given technology. Last year's research, carried out on the sample of 2700 people with a Microsoft certificate, showed that the highest salaries on global work market have specialists, holders of the certificate in the field of SQL Server. Even 3 out of 5 best paid specialists have the following certificates: Database Developer, Database Administrator and Technology Specialist: SQL Server Business Intelligence."
Starting from March 2008, seminars in this field will be added to Algebra's timetable, and you can already apply.
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| Comminus employees as "Ask the Experts" on Microsoft Teched 2007 in Barcelona |
November 16th, 2007 |
Microsoft TechEd, the biggest conference in EMEA region is designed to provide a technical training for developers as well as information and resources oriented to software development under Microsoft technologies. This year it is taking place in Barcelona from November 5th to November 16th and it will gather around 5000 experts and fans of Microsoft technologies and tools. The conference is divided in two parts: the first week will be dedicated to developers, that is Microsoft Teched Developers 2007, while the second week will be marked by somewhat general approach through Microsoft IT Forum 2007.
The basic characteristic of this conference, which is at the same time one of the main reasons of high attendance, is that each visitor has a unique opportunity to get answers to all the questions related to Microsoft products and tools from the renowned experts in EMEA region, populary known as "Ask the Experts". The experts are truly unique in EMEA, even worldwide, and some of them are MVPs.
Microsoft called both Comminus's MVPs: Krešimir Radošević (SQL) and Marko Čulo (BI) as renowned experts to ask all the questions regarding Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Business Intelligence. They will be in charge of coordination, organization and counselling for the stated Microsoft products on the conference level which is another valuable acknowledgement to Comminus as a top-quality company in data management and business intelligence based on Microsoft technologies in the region and even on EMEA level.
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| Comminus as a lecturer on IDC BI Roadshow |
October 2nd, 2007 |
Marko Čulo (MVP) took part as a lecturer on IDC BI Roadshow on October 2nd 2007, Croatia's renowned conference on IT industry. The subject of his lecture was business reporting and decision making support system. This year, the conference has gathered over 200 interested visitors from the highest level of Croatian business world.
With this lecture Marko Čulo covered the topic of Pervasive BI solutions, solutions for business reporting that cut across all the structures of a company, from the lowest to the highest level. These systems, unlike classic BI systems, intertwine the whole company on information level and primarily facilitate business on operative and tactic levels, also giving a cohesive element by involving all the employees in the business flows and thus raise employees' awareness of their real contribution to the company's success.
From the very beginning, Comminus has been actively present on Croatian BI market and during the time it has become one of the top players in this segment, and the proof of that are our clients in BI segment: Nestle, Adriatic, Splitska banka, HG Spot, WLW...
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| Boris Sesar, the new Comminus sales and marketing CE |
August 1st, 2007 |
Boris Sesar was born on February 25th 1979 in Pula. He finished Pazinski kolegij (Pazin College) – Classics-program High School in Pazin in 1997., and he graduated from The Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb in 2002 on the subject of ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan). During his professional development he has completed several seminars on IT technology, project management, business process reengineering and specialized trainings related to financial industry. He also attended several internal trainings of Omega software in Croatia and Oracle EMEA in Austria, Ireland, Slovenia, France and Greece.
He started his IT career in Omega Software as a sales manager where he, after the initial restructuring of sales department and active participation in the company's transformation from the development to sales and consulting, directed the company into regional position. In 2005 he transferred to Oracle Croatia to the position of Sales consultant for Oracle ERP system E-Business Suite for Croatia with active participation on the projects in South-East Europe.
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| Marko Čulo becomes Microsoft MVP for SQL Server |
July 1st, 2007 |
On July 1st 2007, Marko Čulo became the second Comminus's employee to get the most prestigious Microsoft certificate – Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for the accomplishments and expertise in the field of Microsoft SQL Server.
Microsoft MVP Award rewards outstanding individuals within Microsoft technical community for their excellency and active participation in conveying knowledge to the community in the field of expertise. Holders of MVP certificates are renowned individuals who actively exchange and share the real experience and expertise with other users of Microsoft technologies. The idea of MVP certificate is to promote the most active participants of Microsoft community worldwide who contiuously convey their invaluable online and offline expertise that enriches community's experience oriented to Microsoft technology. Holders of Microsoft certificate are renowned in their field of expertise and every member of Microsoft technical community can get answers to any technical question.
With this recognition, Comminus is the only company in Croatia to have two MVP employees for Microsoft SQL Server, since Marko Čulo joined Krešimir Radošević, the first Croatian to get MVP certificate for SQL Server. Just to illustrate, there are only 187 people in the world who have this certificate, and in Croatia there are only three. In this way Comminus gets another recognition in the region for data management based on Microsoft SQL Server.
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| Comminus's employees as lecturers on this year's Windays conference |
April 16th, 2007 |
This year too, our employees are lecturers on Windays conference. Both of our MVPs, Krešimir Radošević and Marko Čulo, will give preconference lecture-training on the subject of "Upgrade and migration to SQL Server 2005". The aim is to give practical info on the ways of migration as well as on the most frequent problems that pop up in the migration and, of course, the solution to the problems.
In the conference part, Krešimir Radošević will give a lecture on the subject of data base, and the title is "SQL Server Database Engine internals (400)". The second lecture is related to the server migration, and the title is: "Upgrade and migration to SQL Server 2005" and it will be given by Marko Čulo. More details on these lectures you can find on the web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/croatia/windays/default.mspx
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