business intelligence
How Do You Draw a Big Picture From Millions of Dots of Disconnected Data? Try Data Virtualization.
Companies lose market opportunities daily because of a missing insight or an overlooked fact—simply because it’s not easily within plain view. Sales can’t connect with latest marketing programs. Marketing can’t connect with sales data. Shipping can’t connect with product inventory information. Manuf…
Gain Intelligence From Cloud Sprawl
Co-authored with Robert Dimicco Senior Director, Advanced Services How many cloud services do you think your enterprise uses? You’ll be surprised: businesses use ~10-15 X more cloud services – unknowingly. This is what we call ‘cloud sprawl,’ because there are too many cloud service…
For Better Self-Service BI, Start with Data Virtualization and a Business Directory
Providing Business Intelligence (BI) reporting and analysis used to be a service that IT provided for their line-of-business counterparts. In recent years, however business users have increasingly taken the lead for their BI and analytic solutions. What’s Driving the Self-Service BI Growth Trend?…
Turning Data Challenges into Business Opportunities
At the recent Gartner BI Summit in Las Vegas, there was a lot of discussion about the paradigm shift underway in business intelligence (BI) and analytics. Business’s need for agile data access and self-service, combined with IT’s inability to satisfy this need, is causing disruption to traditi…
Gartner’s Latest Point of View on BI, Analytics and Big Data
Over the past six weeks I participated in three Gartner BI and Analytic Summits in Sydney, London, and most recently Las Vegas. I love going to these events, as they are a great opportunity to: Stay abreast of the latest trends through the lenses of the Gartner analysts who cover BI, analytics, dat…
Why Implement Microsoft SQL Server on Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)?
A Guest Blog by Cisco’s Frank Cicalese: Frank is a Technical Solutions Architect with Cisco, assisting customers with their design of SQL Server solutions on Cisco Unified Compute System. Before joining Cisco, Frank worked at Microsoft Corporation for 10 years, excelling in several positions, inclu…
Big Changes Become Big Opportunities in Branches
Mobility and cloud innovations have been happening so fast that it’s easy to overlook the place where these technologies have the most impact – the branch. As Andres Sintes mentioned in his blog on Enabling the Branch for the Mobile Cloud Era, clearly understanding both the business and technical as…
CMX Analytics: An Inside Scoop on CiscoLive! Milan #CLEUR
Today is the final day of a very busy and successful Cisco Live Milan 2014. Read my initial observations from the event earlier this week. As the event draws to a close, lets look at some of the location analytics available via Cisco’s Connected Mobile Experiences solution (CMX) and perhaps tr…
How Big Data Will Save the Physical Store
Reports of the physical retail store’s death have been greatly exaggerated. As a recent survey from the Cisco® Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) found, 93 percent of products sold in the United States are still bought in brick-and-mortar locations. And while technology has upended many produc…