InFocus Weekly Roundup May 11, 2012 “Stump the Bloggers” with your questions on Capitalizing on Cloud Services and Transitioning to ITaaS.  Post your questions for InFocus bloggers here – and they will be answered live from EMC World May 21 (simulcast on the EMC Community Network). This week, Wayne Pauley, Choong Keng Leung, and JP Morgenthal

InFocus Roundup May 4, 2012: “One Size Doesn’t Fit All…”  says Kevin Scanlon, with regards to customer Strategy.  “True return on a social media program is best seen in the cost savings.”    This week we welcome Dave Bagatelle from the Asset and Wealth Management division of EMC Consulting to the InFocus Community. Dave covers

InFocus Weekly Roundup: April 27, 2012 “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” Choong Keng Leong draws on Sun Tzu’s quote to explain the use of holistic strategies as the starting point for IT Transformation. Engage in a discussion with InFocus Bloggers on “Capitalizing on Cloud

InFocus Weekly Roundup: “As in life, we collect things and at some point we become burdened by the very same things we have collected.” JP Morgenthal describes the function of chargeback and showback models as Feng Shui for your compute environment.    Welcome to our newest blogger, Rachel Haines, who leads EMC Consulting’s Data Governance

InFocus Weekly Roundup April 13th: Transformation is more than a buzzword, notes Dave Matson. “Continual transformation is a necessity for companies looking to achieve service excellence…” and the service experience is tied to the business’ culture. Mary Cay Kosten shares how EMC is keeping an open dialog with employees to enable them to put customers first

This week,  we learn how Advanced analytics help retailers better understand their customers. Tom Clancy, VP EMC Education Services talks about the convergence of advanced skills required to meet the demand in this growing field, including a new course in Data Science and Big Data Analytics being offered at EMC. The Big Data MBA course series takes a week off as

Transforming IT continues as our topic of focus this week with answers to many questions about IT as a Service. Once you’ve bought into transforming IT to ITaaS, you need to answer a key question: “Where do we start?” Wayne Pauley shares his thoughts on the business skills needed by Cloud developers and explains “Why do

EMC Global Services announced an expanded portfolio of Cloud Services to accelerate IT Transformation, helping businesses increase agility by providing scalable, flexible, and cost-effective IT. Howard Elias, President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure and Cloud Services, joins InFocus as a guest blogger.  He celebrated the opening of EMC’s newest global customer support center and shares his

Richard Branson’s very own slice of Heaven, Necker Island, may not have been on your radar as your business office, but as Dan Sigmon points out, you too may be able to Do Your Job In Paradise.  This may alternatively be known as The Sir Richard Branson Effect,  except you don’t have to be a multi billion dollar business mogul

This week’s focus is all about people: Frank Coleman reviews the skill set of Shadow IT groups and asks “Are Data Scientists Hiding in the Shadows? What If Business Intelligence truly is the smarter way to stay competitive and profitable. Making it to the ‘What If’ Era illustrates one of many potential uses of Business Intelligence.  Find

This week we peer through Matt’s visionary perspective about the future of home and personal health care technology ; We find out if being different, is better, when providing services to your customers, and take a look at the future of SMS in the face of newer and “cooler” social media techologies.   We get some clarity on the

This week, we find out why better questions will provide more useful insights and help you better understand the “Why” in addition to the “what” that affects your business and get more mileage from your report data. We also learn that “Reinventing the wheel may ultimately end up costing the business”, and being unique can

Frank Coleman speaks on the truth and its many derivatives: Which Truth Do You Want? and some less-than-best practices when visually representing data: It’s So Obvious, Why Didn’t I See It? Visual Business Intelligence. Bill Schmarzo ditches Ted and the phone booth and offers up some data science: Bill’s Most Excellent Data Scientist Adventure. Choong

Welcome to your weekly roundup, for the week of Friday February 10th. This week’s articles feature posts by April Reeve in addition to Yo Delmar, Robert Abate and Choong Keng Leong.  April provides valuable insight on the end of data life cycle up to, and through data deletion as well as the importance of Metadata

Hello and welcome back to the weekly wrap up! This week’s articles feature posts by Matt Grob as well as Robert Abate. Matt takes another look into the healthcare industry using an analogy to his refrigerator during the holiday season. Read how to leverage the cloud to meet today’s healthcare challenges. Follow up with Robert

Welcome to the InFocus Weekly Roundup! Thank you for your support and continuing to contribute to the success of the blog. This Roundup serves to give a brief summary and link to the articles you may have missed out from in the past week! This weeks topics range from Bill Schmarzo blogging on Big Data