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BIG DATA, BIG
                                                                     TRANSFORMATIONS
                                                                     BIG DATA SUCCESS REQUIRES VISION,
                                                                     TALENT, AND TECHNOLOGY
                                                                     Competitive enterprises that embark on big data strategies do so with
                                                                     the expectation that their businesses will transform. They don’t just want
                                                                     answers from the data they collect and analyze, they want results. Be it
                                                                     with small, fledgling trials or large, cross-functional efforts, these enter-
                                                                     prises want to see clearly how big data can make a difference–with their
                                                                     customers, their processes, their bottom lines and, most important, with
                                                                     growing the business.
                                                                         However, many organizations that appreciate the advantages big data can
                                                                     offer, and some that already have a few big data projects under their belts,
                                                                     remain unclear on how to get maximum results from these initiatives. In 2012,
                                                                     McKinsey & Company conducted a survey of 1,469 executives across various
                                                                     regions, industries and company sizes, in which 49 percent of respondents
                                                                     said that their companies are focusing big data efforts on customer insights,
                                                                     segmentation and targeting to improve overall performance.1 An even higher
                                                                     number of respondents–60 percent–said their companies should focus efforts
                                                                     on using data and analytics to generate these insights. Yet, just one-fifth said
                                                                     that their organizations have fully deployed data and analytics to generate
                                                                     insights in one business unit or function, and only 13 percent use data to
                                                                     generate insights across the company.
                                                                         As these survey results show, the question is no longer whether big data can
                                                                     help business, but how can business derive maximum results from big data.



1
    McKinsey Global Survey, “Minding Your Digital Business,” 2012.
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    “A lot of enterprises understand that big data is something
they need to tackle, but the challenge they experience now is
how to do it effectively,” says Generosa Litton, director of big
data marketing with EMC. “They know the advantages, but
getting to the maximum benefits is something they’re still grap-
pling with. In order to clear that hurdle, company executives
should view big data as a means for meeting business initia-
tives. They should align big data projects with tangible goals.”
    Much of the apprehension around big data projects is not
about the technology that can provide insights to pressing
questions or problems. Rather, it’s about having the right
management structure and business processes in place to
                                                                     Æ Big Data Transforms Business
                                                                     What’s the big deal with big data? Big data presents a big challenge
implement what’s been learned and begin to transform the
                                                                     –and also exciting new opportunities. In this video, EMC describes a
business. Big data itself can’t produce business results; what’s     practical approach to big data that enables you to transform your busi-
needed is a clear vision of how the business can gain results,       ness and rise above the competition. http://youtu.be/Ll63WUZOXug
using big data to help get there. That’s where value is created.

The roadmap to results                                               tion of success. This means moving from evasive goals, such
Getting results from big data doesn’t happen overnight, and          as “boosting product sales in the Southwest,” to more specific
can’t be done in a vacuum. Enterprises must approach big data        descriptors of success, such as “increasing product sales by 10
projects with forethought and preparation. They must ensure          percent in Arizona and New Mexico during the winter months.”
that all stakeholders are on board and invested in success, and      By putting metrics around a project, companies can more easily
that the right infrastructure and staffing pieces are in place. By   determine and quantify its success and translate that success to
combining the following elements in their big data strategies,       the impact it has on revenue. Having quantifiable results is useful
enterprises are much more likely to maximize their invest-           when digging further into big data to reveal additional insights or
ments, shorten time to insight and uncover business value:           launching new big data projects in other areas of the business.

VISION–Successful big data strategies start at the top               TECHNOLOGY–Any successful big data project needs the
with executive buy-in, sponsorship and support. Executives           right infrastructure in place, from storage all the way up
must set the tone for what strategic outcomes are expected           to applications:
from a big data project, and remain involved so that the                • Big data storage environments store structured and
vision stays central to the project. A big data project can               unstructured data and can scale out to meet the size,
require involvement from many different departments of                    scope and velocity demands of big data.
the company; for example, marketing, finance, customer
                                                                        • Big data analytics platforms analyze structured and unstruc-
service and IT could all be involved in understanding the
                                                                          tured data without requiring data to be transferred, therefore
impact of a certain marketing campaign. Executives must
                                                                          avoiding latency associated with having to move the data
put in place flexible management structures to allow big
                                                                          around. They also support flexible yet powerful analytics to
data projects to flow across functions, and resist siloing
                                                                          enable faster insight through self-service and collaboration.
data and employees by department or other limiting factors.
                                                                        • Big data applications are purpose-built and customized
METRICS–While top executives should set the vision for big                to distribute insight throughout the organization, and
data results, line-of-business managers are best suited to                created with agile programming techniques that speed
frame the project with metrics that offer a detailed descrip-             development and promote collaboration.


  “A lot of business users haven’t been able to envision the realm of the possible; they may
  know what questions they are trying to answer and decisions that need to be made, but
  they just don’t understand what some of the new data sources can do for them.”
                       — Bill Schmarzo, CTO of enterprise information management and analytics service, EMC Consulting
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TALENT–In addition to the right technology, big data projects
                                                                      Greenplum HD and Isilon OneFS
require trained professionals to leverage resources and deliver
results. Data scientists possess the skills and expertise that go
beyond business intelligence to generate business insight.
   “The data scientist is really going to help the business
stakeholders establish a vision for what can be done with
data,” says Annika Jimenez, senior director for analytics
solutions with EMC Greenplum. “It’s someone who can
leverage predictive models and machine learning to push
the limits of what can be done with data.”

SERVICES AND EDUCATION–While some companies,
like Facebook and Google, grew up on big data and have
built their organizations to take advantage of it, most have
not. To succeed with big data projects, many enterprises              A purpose-built Hadoop infrastructure using Greenplum
need a partner who can work with both the IT department               HD and Isilon OneFS removes the risk associated with
and line-of-business managers to make the most of the                 complex hardware and software configuration processes.
information they collect.
    “A lot of business users haven’t been able to envision the
realm of the possible; they may know what questions they
are trying to answer and decisions that need to be made,            single cluster while greatly simplifying storage and data
but they just don’t understand what some of the new data            management. The Isilon scale-out network-attached
sources can do for them,” says Bill Schmarzo, CTO of enter-         storage (NAS) platform provides a highly efficient and
prise information management and analytics service with             resilient storage infrastructure that scales in both capacity
EMC Consulting. “They need a partner with industry exper-           and performance, simplifying and reducing storage
tise who understands how big data impacts them, who can             management to a few hours a week while optimizing
explore the realm of the possible and identify use cases.”          resources with automated, tiered storage capabilities.
                                                                    As the first and only scale-out storage platform with
EMC solutions drive big data results                                native HDFS support, Isilon NAS is well suited to support
EMC understands all aspects of big data and works in partner-       Hadoop-based analytics of large-scale, file-based unstruc-
ship with enterprises to make their vision and goals a reality.     tured data. With its flexible, multiprotocol support and
By leveraging EMC solutions that put data in context and make       record NAS performance, EMC Isilon is an ideal storage
it part of all decision-making processes, enterprises gain the      platform to consolidate big data environments while
insight needed to transform into predictive, agile organizations.   supporting a wide range of applications and workloads,
                                                                    including data analytics. Isilon scale-out storage provides
The Big Data solution from EMC–This set of tech-                    more than 80 percent storage utilization to help enterprises
nologies from EMC provides scale-out storage, a unified             maximize ROI while reducing capital expenditures as well
analytics platform and business process and application             as operational costs.
development tools to produce results.
                                                                    EMC Unified Analytics Platform consists of the Green-
EMC Isilon is a storage platform for big data designed              plum Database, Greenplum HD and Greenplum Chorus. This
to easily scale capacity over 15 petabytes within a                 unified analytics platform enables analysis of structured and


  “The data scientist is really going to help the business stakeholders establish a
  vision for what can be done with data. It’s someone who can leverage predictive
  models and machine learning to push the limits of what can be done with data.”
                                                   — Annika Jimenez, senior director for analytics solutions, EMC Greenplum
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unstructured data and provides a productivity layer for data
science teams. Combining analytics into one system and
performing analysis against all data, the Greenplum Unified
Analytics Platform (UAP) enables more accurate predic-
tions and more precise model development. The massively
parallel processing (MPP) Greenplum Database manages,
stores and analyzes petabytes of structured data. It quickly
loads data and process queries using the computing
power of all the nodes in the cluster. As a result, users can
continuously optimize their predictive models, resulting in
better sales, lower costs and less risk. Greenplum HD is
an enterprise software framework based on The Apache              Æ Introducing BrainPad, Japan
Foundation’s Hadoop that lets customers process and run           BrainPad provides automated analytical services to enterprise clients from
                                                                  a wide range of industries. With data increasing on a daily basis, BrainPad
analytics on massive amounts of unstructured data. Green-
                                                                  developed the Cloudstock solution to enable customers to make the most
plum Chorus is a self-service and collaborative platform that     of data and improve marketing ROI. http://youtu.be/ehQlApV4mTY
helps data science teams create sandboxes using self-
service provisioning, and instantly start analyzing data and
sharing insights. It also includes social network features that
allow all stakeholders to participate and collaborate on big      EMC Greenplum Pivotal Labs helps enterprises complete
data projects.                                                    the “last mile” of the big data analytics process through the
    Tokyo-based BrainPad, a platform-as-a-service (PaaS)          development of custom, data-driven applications. These
provider of analytical applications and services designed to      applications help enterprises that have uncovered insight
help social gaming companies analyze in-game data, turned         with Greenplum UAP to put that knowledge to use, which
to Greenplum when its existing database hit the wall. When        is critical to the overall success of the analytics project.
BrainPad released its data analysis PaaS, demand far exceeded     Because off-the-shelf applications for big data don’t exist,
expectations. While this was good news for the business, the      and the insights gleaned from big data can’t be simply
infrastructure wasn’t up to the task of meeting the demand. The   plugged into existing BI applications, enterprises are faced
installed database was taking more than two days to load data     with the challenges of building custom software. Pivotal
and upwards of a week to load large volume sets, resulting in     Labs makes this development process faster and less
significant performance hits for BrainPad’s customers.            expensive, and in the end enables development teams to
    BrainPad installed the Greenplum Database, which              deliver better software with a higher quality of code. By
features a shared-nothing, MPP architecture to resolve I/O        providing project-based consulting engagements to EMC
bottlenecks, and quickly saw greater performance for analyst      customers, Pivotal is removing the common challenges of
queries. The time needed to load large volumes of raw data        developing custom software and enabling data-driven enter-
has been reduced from more than a week to two hours.              prises to build the next generation of big data applications.
    “Our customers’ data scientists can be highly respon-
sive to changes in consumer behavior because they can get         EMC Documentum xCP provides a next-generation develop-
answers from the database within minutes of the data being        ment platform that simplifies how organizations create, deploy
loaded,” says Seinosuke Sato, co-founder and director of          and embed real-time analytics in applications. Documentum
BrainPad. “Greenplum is optimized for fast query execution        xCP leverages information from a variety of big data sources
and supports our goal of making it easy for our customers         that are process-centric and decision-oriented. This allows
to remain focused on improving their marketing ROI.”              organizations to use graphical application composition rather



  “Our customers’ data scientists can be highly responsive to changes in
  consumer behavior because they can get answers from the database within
  minutes of the data being loaded.”
                                                                       — Seinosuke Sato, co-founder and director, BrainPad
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than requiring them to write custom code. Documentum xCP               EMC Greenplum Analytics Labs brings Greenplum data
increases business user agility and IT staff productivity by           scientists on-site to help develop an analytics roadmap and
improving processes and applications with big data insights–           kick-start analytics projects. By combining services, training
helping them to easily adapt to evolving business requirements.        and, in some cases, hardware and software, these unique
By accessing and exchanging data and content across multiple           labs partner with analysts, data platform administrators and
enterprise systems and applications, xCP enables organiza-             business leadership to solve top business challenges and find
tions to provide end users with a single view of all relevant          new opportunities in data, all on an accelerated schedule.
information in context–regardless of its source, location or
format. In addition, xCP-built applications can easily aggregate       EMC Data Science and Big Data Analytics training and
and integrate Greenplum analytics with content and process             certification programs are designed to build a solid founda-
analytics to provide valuable insight throughout an enterprise         tion for data analytics with a particular focus on the opportuni-
for improved decision making.                                          ties and challenges presented by big data. Data science profes-
                                                                       sionals/teams are needed to help shepherd their organizations
EMC is the right partner                                               to realize increased success and the full potential from big data.
Beyond technology, enterprises often need to partner with
experienced professionals on their big data projects to arrive         Conclusion
at the desired results. Education and training are key to              Companies with the right infrastructures, talent and vision in
bringing their staff members up to speed.                              place are well equipped to take their big data strategies to the
    EMC Consulting works with enterprises to unlock the business       next level and transform their businesses. They can use big
value in big data. EMC professionals prepare clients to think criti-   data to unveil new patterns and trends, gain additional insights
cally about their greatest challenges and to develop strategies that   and begin to find answers to pressing business issues.
rationalize and optimize the use of growing amounts of informa-            The deeper organizations dig into big data and the more
tion. EMC Consulting’s 2,000 consultants across the globe have an      equipped they are to act upon what’s learned, the more likely
average of 17 years consulting experience with specific expertise      they are to reveal answers that can add value to the top line of
in business and industry challenges to provide the strategy, execu-    the business. This is where the returns on big data investments
tion and business acumen to deliver on the promise of big data.        multiply and the transformation begins. Harnessing big data
                                                                       insight delivers more than cost cutting or productivity improve-
EMC Consulting’s Big Data Vision Workshop helps enter-                 ment–it reveals new business opportunities.
prises define where and how big data and advanced analytics can
transform an organization from both a competitive and a financial      Next Steps
standpoint. The on-site workshop leverages group dynamics              To learn more about EMC’s big data solution and how it can help
and envisioning exercises to identify big data opportunities, and      transform your business, please visit:
discover how big data and advanced analytics can deliver results.
                                                                       www.EMC.com/BigData
                                                                       www.EMC.com/Isilon
The Vision Workshop is designed to achieve these objectives:
                                                                       www.Greenplum.com
   • Drive agreement from all participants regarding the prior-
                                                                       www.PivotalLabs.com
     itization of identified business opportunities from a finan-
     cial perspective. This could be expressed in hard dollars,        www.EMC.com/xCP
     return on investment or ranking versus other projects.            www.EMC.com/services/
   • Drive agreement regarding feasibility of implementation
     of each of the proposed business opportunities, based
     on technology, project and organizational parameters.
   • Drive agreement on the ranking of each business oppor-
     tunity against the criteria of business value and imple-
     mentation feasibility.

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Big Data, Big Transformation

  • 1. BIG DATA, BIG TRANSFORMATIONS BIG DATA SUCCESS REQUIRES VISION, TALENT, AND TECHNOLOGY Competitive enterprises that embark on big data strategies do so with the expectation that their businesses will transform. They don’t just want answers from the data they collect and analyze, they want results. Be it with small, fledgling trials or large, cross-functional efforts, these enter- prises want to see clearly how big data can make a difference–with their customers, their processes, their bottom lines and, most important, with growing the business. However, many organizations that appreciate the advantages big data can offer, and some that already have a few big data projects under their belts, remain unclear on how to get maximum results from these initiatives. In 2012, McKinsey & Company conducted a survey of 1,469 executives across various regions, industries and company sizes, in which 49 percent of respondents said that their companies are focusing big data efforts on customer insights, segmentation and targeting to improve overall performance.1 An even higher number of respondents–60 percent–said their companies should focus efforts on using data and analytics to generate these insights. Yet, just one-fifth said that their organizations have fully deployed data and analytics to generate insights in one business unit or function, and only 13 percent use data to generate insights across the company. As these survey results show, the question is no longer whether big data can help business, but how can business derive maximum results from big data. 1 McKinsey Global Survey, “Minding Your Digital Business,” 2012.
  • 2. WHITE PAPER | BIG DATA, BIG TRANSFORMATIONS 2 “A lot of enterprises understand that big data is something they need to tackle, but the challenge they experience now is how to do it effectively,” says Generosa Litton, director of big data marketing with EMC. “They know the advantages, but getting to the maximum benefits is something they’re still grap- pling with. In order to clear that hurdle, company executives should view big data as a means for meeting business initia- tives. They should align big data projects with tangible goals.” Much of the apprehension around big data projects is not about the technology that can provide insights to pressing questions or problems. Rather, it’s about having the right management structure and business processes in place to Æ Big Data Transforms Business What’s the big deal with big data? Big data presents a big challenge implement what’s been learned and begin to transform the –and also exciting new opportunities. In this video, EMC describes a business. Big data itself can’t produce business results; what’s practical approach to big data that enables you to transform your busi- needed is a clear vision of how the business can gain results, ness and rise above the competition. http://youtu.be/Ll63WUZOXug using big data to help get there. That’s where value is created. The roadmap to results tion of success. This means moving from evasive goals, such Getting results from big data doesn’t happen overnight, and as “boosting product sales in the Southwest,” to more specific can’t be done in a vacuum. Enterprises must approach big data descriptors of success, such as “increasing product sales by 10 projects with forethought and preparation. They must ensure percent in Arizona and New Mexico during the winter months.” that all stakeholders are on board and invested in success, and By putting metrics around a project, companies can more easily that the right infrastructure and staffing pieces are in place. By determine and quantify its success and translate that success to combining the following elements in their big data strategies, the impact it has on revenue. Having quantifiable results is useful enterprises are much more likely to maximize their invest- when digging further into big data to reveal additional insights or ments, shorten time to insight and uncover business value: launching new big data projects in other areas of the business. VISION–Successful big data strategies start at the top TECHNOLOGY–Any successful big data project needs the with executive buy-in, sponsorship and support. Executives right infrastructure in place, from storage all the way up must set the tone for what strategic outcomes are expected to applications: from a big data project, and remain involved so that the • Big data storage environments store structured and vision stays central to the project. A big data project can unstructured data and can scale out to meet the size, require involvement from many different departments of scope and velocity demands of big data. the company; for example, marketing, finance, customer • Big data analytics platforms analyze structured and unstruc- service and IT could all be involved in understanding the tured data without requiring data to be transferred, therefore impact of a certain marketing campaign. Executives must avoiding latency associated with having to move the data put in place flexible management structures to allow big around. They also support flexible yet powerful analytics to data projects to flow across functions, and resist siloing enable faster insight through self-service and collaboration. data and employees by department or other limiting factors. • Big data applications are purpose-built and customized METRICS–While top executives should set the vision for big to distribute insight throughout the organization, and data results, line-of-business managers are best suited to created with agile programming techniques that speed frame the project with metrics that offer a detailed descrip- development and promote collaboration. “A lot of business users haven’t been able to envision the realm of the possible; they may know what questions they are trying to answer and decisions that need to be made, but they just don’t understand what some of the new data sources can do for them.” — Bill Schmarzo, CTO of enterprise information management and analytics service, EMC Consulting
  • 3. WHITE PAPER | BIG DATA, BIG TRANSFORMATIONS 3 TALENT–In addition to the right technology, big data projects Greenplum HD and Isilon OneFS require trained professionals to leverage resources and deliver results. Data scientists possess the skills and expertise that go beyond business intelligence to generate business insight. “The data scientist is really going to help the business stakeholders establish a vision for what can be done with data,” says Annika Jimenez, senior director for analytics solutions with EMC Greenplum. “It’s someone who can leverage predictive models and machine learning to push the limits of what can be done with data.” SERVICES AND EDUCATION–While some companies, like Facebook and Google, grew up on big data and have built their organizations to take advantage of it, most have not. To succeed with big data projects, many enterprises A purpose-built Hadoop infrastructure using Greenplum need a partner who can work with both the IT department HD and Isilon OneFS removes the risk associated with and line-of-business managers to make the most of the complex hardware and software configuration processes. information they collect. “A lot of business users haven’t been able to envision the realm of the possible; they may know what questions they are trying to answer and decisions that need to be made, single cluster while greatly simplifying storage and data but they just don’t understand what some of the new data management. The Isilon scale-out network-attached sources can do for them,” says Bill Schmarzo, CTO of enter- storage (NAS) platform provides a highly efficient and prise information management and analytics service with resilient storage infrastructure that scales in both capacity EMC Consulting. “They need a partner with industry exper- and performance, simplifying and reducing storage tise who understands how big data impacts them, who can management to a few hours a week while optimizing explore the realm of the possible and identify use cases.” resources with automated, tiered storage capabilities. As the first and only scale-out storage platform with EMC solutions drive big data results native HDFS support, Isilon NAS is well suited to support EMC understands all aspects of big data and works in partner- Hadoop-based analytics of large-scale, file-based unstruc- ship with enterprises to make their vision and goals a reality. tured data. With its flexible, multiprotocol support and By leveraging EMC solutions that put data in context and make record NAS performance, EMC Isilon is an ideal storage it part of all decision-making processes, enterprises gain the platform to consolidate big data environments while insight needed to transform into predictive, agile organizations. supporting a wide range of applications and workloads, including data analytics. Isilon scale-out storage provides The Big Data solution from EMC–This set of tech- more than 80 percent storage utilization to help enterprises nologies from EMC provides scale-out storage, a unified maximize ROI while reducing capital expenditures as well analytics platform and business process and application as operational costs. development tools to produce results. EMC Unified Analytics Platform consists of the Green- EMC Isilon is a storage platform for big data designed plum Database, Greenplum HD and Greenplum Chorus. This to easily scale capacity over 15 petabytes within a unified analytics platform enables analysis of structured and “The data scientist is really going to help the business stakeholders establish a vision for what can be done with data. It’s someone who can leverage predictive models and machine learning to push the limits of what can be done with data.” — Annika Jimenez, senior director for analytics solutions, EMC Greenplum
  • 4. WHITE PAPER | BIG DATA, BIG TRANSFORMATIONS 4 unstructured data and provides a productivity layer for data science teams. Combining analytics into one system and performing analysis against all data, the Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform (UAP) enables more accurate predic- tions and more precise model development. The massively parallel processing (MPP) Greenplum Database manages, stores and analyzes petabytes of structured data. It quickly loads data and process queries using the computing power of all the nodes in the cluster. As a result, users can continuously optimize their predictive models, resulting in better sales, lower costs and less risk. Greenplum HD is an enterprise software framework based on The Apache Æ Introducing BrainPad, Japan Foundation’s Hadoop that lets customers process and run BrainPad provides automated analytical services to enterprise clients from a wide range of industries. With data increasing on a daily basis, BrainPad analytics on massive amounts of unstructured data. Green- developed the Cloudstock solution to enable customers to make the most plum Chorus is a self-service and collaborative platform that of data and improve marketing ROI. http://youtu.be/ehQlApV4mTY helps data science teams create sandboxes using self- service provisioning, and instantly start analyzing data and sharing insights. It also includes social network features that allow all stakeholders to participate and collaborate on big EMC Greenplum Pivotal Labs helps enterprises complete data projects. the “last mile” of the big data analytics process through the Tokyo-based BrainPad, a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) development of custom, data-driven applications. These provider of analytical applications and services designed to applications help enterprises that have uncovered insight help social gaming companies analyze in-game data, turned with Greenplum UAP to put that knowledge to use, which to Greenplum when its existing database hit the wall. When is critical to the overall success of the analytics project. BrainPad released its data analysis PaaS, demand far exceeded Because off-the-shelf applications for big data don’t exist, expectations. While this was good news for the business, the and the insights gleaned from big data can’t be simply infrastructure wasn’t up to the task of meeting the demand. The plugged into existing BI applications, enterprises are faced installed database was taking more than two days to load data with the challenges of building custom software. Pivotal and upwards of a week to load large volume sets, resulting in Labs makes this development process faster and less significant performance hits for BrainPad’s customers. expensive, and in the end enables development teams to BrainPad installed the Greenplum Database, which deliver better software with a higher quality of code. By features a shared-nothing, MPP architecture to resolve I/O providing project-based consulting engagements to EMC bottlenecks, and quickly saw greater performance for analyst customers, Pivotal is removing the common challenges of queries. The time needed to load large volumes of raw data developing custom software and enabling data-driven enter- has been reduced from more than a week to two hours. prises to build the next generation of big data applications. “Our customers’ data scientists can be highly respon- sive to changes in consumer behavior because they can get EMC Documentum xCP provides a next-generation develop- answers from the database within minutes of the data being ment platform that simplifies how organizations create, deploy loaded,” says Seinosuke Sato, co-founder and director of and embed real-time analytics in applications. Documentum BrainPad. “Greenplum is optimized for fast query execution xCP leverages information from a variety of big data sources and supports our goal of making it easy for our customers that are process-centric and decision-oriented. This allows to remain focused on improving their marketing ROI.” organizations to use graphical application composition rather “Our customers’ data scientists can be highly responsive to changes in consumer behavior because they can get answers from the database within minutes of the data being loaded.” — Seinosuke Sato, co-founder and director, BrainPad
  • 5. WHITE PAPER | BIG DATA, BIG TRANSFORMATIONS 5 than requiring them to write custom code. Documentum xCP EMC Greenplum Analytics Labs brings Greenplum data increases business user agility and IT staff productivity by scientists on-site to help develop an analytics roadmap and improving processes and applications with big data insights– kick-start analytics projects. By combining services, training helping them to easily adapt to evolving business requirements. and, in some cases, hardware and software, these unique By accessing and exchanging data and content across multiple labs partner with analysts, data platform administrators and enterprise systems and applications, xCP enables organiza- business leadership to solve top business challenges and find tions to provide end users with a single view of all relevant new opportunities in data, all on an accelerated schedule. information in context–regardless of its source, location or format. In addition, xCP-built applications can easily aggregate EMC Data Science and Big Data Analytics training and and integrate Greenplum analytics with content and process certification programs are designed to build a solid founda- analytics to provide valuable insight throughout an enterprise tion for data analytics with a particular focus on the opportuni- for improved decision making. ties and challenges presented by big data. Data science profes- sionals/teams are needed to help shepherd their organizations EMC is the right partner to realize increased success and the full potential from big data. Beyond technology, enterprises often need to partner with experienced professionals on their big data projects to arrive Conclusion at the desired results. Education and training are key to Companies with the right infrastructures, talent and vision in bringing their staff members up to speed. place are well equipped to take their big data strategies to the EMC Consulting works with enterprises to unlock the business next level and transform their businesses. They can use big value in big data. EMC professionals prepare clients to think criti- data to unveil new patterns and trends, gain additional insights cally about their greatest challenges and to develop strategies that and begin to find answers to pressing business issues. rationalize and optimize the use of growing amounts of informa- The deeper organizations dig into big data and the more tion. EMC Consulting’s 2,000 consultants across the globe have an equipped they are to act upon what’s learned, the more likely average of 17 years consulting experience with specific expertise they are to reveal answers that can add value to the top line of in business and industry challenges to provide the strategy, execu- the business. This is where the returns on big data investments tion and business acumen to deliver on the promise of big data. multiply and the transformation begins. Harnessing big data insight delivers more than cost cutting or productivity improve- EMC Consulting’s Big Data Vision Workshop helps enter- ment–it reveals new business opportunities. prises define where and how big data and advanced analytics can transform an organization from both a competitive and a financial Next Steps standpoint. The on-site workshop leverages group dynamics To learn more about EMC’s big data solution and how it can help and envisioning exercises to identify big data opportunities, and transform your business, please visit: discover how big data and advanced analytics can deliver results. www.EMC.com/BigData www.EMC.com/Isilon The Vision Workshop is designed to achieve these objectives: www.Greenplum.com • Drive agreement from all participants regarding the prior- www.PivotalLabs.com itization of identified business opportunities from a finan- cial perspective. This could be expressed in hard dollars, www.EMC.com/xCP return on investment or ranking versus other projects. www.EMC.com/services/ • Drive agreement regarding feasibility of implementation of each of the proposed business opportunities, based on technology, project and organizational parameters. • Drive agreement on the ranking of each business oppor- tunity against the criteria of business value and imple- mentation feasibility.