GRC, ECN, EMC World, Feng Shui – Oh Boy!

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

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EMC Consulting GRC Advisory Services, with RSA Archer – A Watershed Event
Written on February 29, 2012 by in Compliance, Governance, Risk, Trust

Most of you know I am part of EMC’s Consulting organization and work closely with RSA and the Archer team. This week at RSA Conference in San Francisco, we are launching a very focused set of advisory services around security and risk management – including a new set of advisory services around GRC strategy, development

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InFocus Weekly Roundup! Friday February 17, 2012

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

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Impressions From An EMC Forum, Part 2
Written on December 15, 2011 by in Big Data, Cloud, Trust

As promised, here is the second half of the interview I gave while at the EMC Forum in Boston. In this short video, I discuss the challenges and needs IT customers face as they accelerate their journey to the cloud and leverage Big Data.   You can view the first video as well, in which

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Contracts Management: Mitigate Risk and Establish Your Next Profit Center
Written on June 29, 2011 by in Business Markets, Compliance, Governance, Risk, Trust

Although contracts underlie virtually every business relationship, companies fail to adequately manage commercial contracts professionally, which in turn can cost them billions of dollars worldwide every year. Adopting an Enterprise Contract Management (ECM) strategy can generate serious revenues and cost savings while minimizing business risk. What is ECM? Quite simply, it is the practice of

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