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

A recent blog that I wrote, titled “The Coming BI Tsunami,” drew a quick response from my old friend Warren Thornthwaite.  Warren and I worked together back in the 1980’s at Metaphor Computer Systems, one of the first (if not the first) Data Warehouse (DW) and Business Intelligence (BI) company.  Warren has spent much of

One of the most common arguments in the area of Business Intelligence today concerns the level of detail at which a company should keep its data for the purpose of informational analysis. There are many reasons for this argument, and perhaps the most pertinent three are influenced by: What data is available The limitations of

This past week I’ve had a chance to attend EMC Education Services new class titled  “Data Science and Big Data Analytics.”  The course provides a hands-on practitioner’s approach to the techniques and tools required for Big Data Analytics.  My primary interest in the course was to see if it was really possible to transition an