I just finished presenting at the TDWI “Cool BI” Forum in Chicago this week.  I had an interesting conversation after my presentation about identifying where to look for big data opportunities within one’s organization.  I’m a big advocate of starting with the annual report, and I’ll use this blog to discuss 1) where to look in the

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

Yesterday I had the privilege of accepting the TSIA STAR Award for Best Use of Metrics and Business Intelligence on behalf of EMC. This is the third year in a row that EMC has won this award. EMC’s commitment to improving our customers’ experience is what this is all about. Our core metrics are designed

In my discussions about the assault of big data technologies on the traditional Business Intelligence (BI) and data warehouse (DW) markets, sometimes it is hard to identify specific use cases where a big data technology – like Hadoop – can help your BI environment.  Many of these big data use cases are really still being

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