After a very long hiatus, CoffeeCAST makes a triumphant return! In today’s episode, your intrepid host Stephen Hayward sits down with Project X Ltd. VP Ted Aslanidis for their inaugural CoffeeCAST in our new office. They discuss the challenges of moving into a new space before delving deep into the world of IoT and self-driving cars, the IT behind it, and various opportunities in a world of connected devices. You can listen to the latest episode here: CoffeeCAST – #57 – Welcome Back You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Google Play. We look forward to hearing your feedback as we once again embark on this exciting project!
Welcome to the 56th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. Today I welcome Scott Boundy as guest moderator with Michael Ianni-Palarchio and me where we discuss the building of a Carbon Footprint Reporting application where we followed our RapidBI methodology. This is Scott’s first CoffeeCAST and with it we asked him to start the discussion and ask any questions he thought of. The following is a summary of the discussion: Rapid Prototyping Carbon Footprint Rules Conundrum Lessons Learned Where we think this will go So sit back and join the conversation. 56 CoffeeCAST #56 – Carbon Footprint Reporting The solution was built on Teradata, MicroStrategy (free and licensed version) and Big Data Labs GeoDash.
Welcome to the 55th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. It is a spring cleanup type of coffeecast where we want to talk about how to create efficiency in capturing unstructured project related information. I have asked Michael Ianni-Palarchio to join me today where we will be discussing how to create some efficiency in consulting with the lessons learned in data warehousing and Business Intelligence around one version of the truth. The following is a summary of the discussion: One Version of the Truth Multiple Sources of Capture Information Metadata Repositories Google Desktop Central hub model Simplified Model Erwin – Logical data model How you evolve to a model of best fit – focus on value and efficiency Helping people understand what we are getting in the end so they know why we are doing this 55 CoffeeCAST #55 – One Version of the Truth and Consulting
Welcome to the 54th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. I hope all is well with everyone. I have asked Michael Ianni-Palarchio to join me today where we will be discussing: Misalignment between scope estimation and the truth Lowball Estimates and Change Request to death Too high, not enough intimate knowledge and too much worst case Working within Customers delivery processes Clearfit – A way to see your new hires in a different light 54 CoffeeCAST #54 – Process Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Michael and I sat down after a great morning of review on lessons learned and wanted to quickly chat about Business Intelligence Governance. In today’s CoffeeCAST we talk about the main four areas of focus without going too deep on any one. They are: BI Governance committee BI Lifecycle / Process End-User Support Structure BI Program Review 53 CoffeeCAST #53 – BI Governance This was a broad and interesting area. I think next week I will sit down again and talk specifics on these areas as a single discussion. This is just a starting point to the conversation, so feel free to join in and add your thoughts.
Welcome to the 52nd CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. Happy New Year and we are back on the air as it were. I have asked Graham to join me while we talk a little about: Consultant in the Middle / Readiness Master Data Management (MDM – IBM, Oracle and Teradata) Moving data around costs money Business Intelligence Trends in 2008 Download 52_coffeecast_52_consultant_in_the_middle.mp3 Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 51st CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. Live from Las Vegas. Hello again from Vegas – baby. We are coming close to covering the end of a great week at the Teradata 2007 Partners event. This is a recap of Part 2 of the Wednesday sessions along with Thursday mornings sessions. There were many sessions throughout the day. The ones we went to were: Join Indexes Microsoft Relationship – Todd Walters, Teradata A Discussion with Rick Makos – President of Teradata Canada Partitioned Primary Indexes Being a Teradata DBA Creating interactive conversations Implementing Row Level Security Develop Enterprise Metadata Management The Road to Dual Active Download 5151_cc_51_teradata_partners_wednesday_part_2.mp3 Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 50th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. Live from Las Vegas. Hello again from Vegas – baby. We are coming close to covering the end of a great week at the Teradata 2007 Partners event. This is a recap of Part 1 of the Wednesday sessions. There were many sessions throughout the day. The ones we went to were (covered in this and Wednesday Part 2): Best Practices for Teradata Backup and Restore – Jeremy Davis, Teradata Agile Development Practices for Business Intelligence – Sullivan McConnell, The Travelers Companies Performance Optimization Techniques in a Teradata/MicroStrategy Environment – Chet Aitken, Hudson’s Bay Structured Method for Tuning Teradata SQL Develop Enterprise Metadata Management The Road to Dual Active Download 50_cc_50_teradata_partners_wednesday_part_1_fixed.mp3 Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 49th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. Live from Las Vegas. Hello again from Vegas – baby. We are coming close to covering the end of a great week at the Teradata 2007 Partners event. The closing session was great, Graham and I continue with some discussion on the closing session. This was an inspiring session which had the theme of innovation. So before we go on to our last CoffeeCAST in regards to this event, here is the discussion that Graham and I had after the session by Dean Kamen (most notably known for the invention of the Segway, but the least of his advances) Innovation versus Invention Innovation is more about surprises (negative) what he refers to as rude realities of issues which are unforeseen Seven Rude Realities Three Suggestions Introduction to Deka Research and Development Corporation A very fast overview of FIRST – For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology a great and fast growing movement to bring the ‘bling’ into Science and Technology Download 49_coffeecast_49_teradata_partners_2007_wednesday_part_1.mp3 Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 48th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. Live from Las Vegas. Hello again from Vegas – baby. It was the end of a great week at the Teradata 2007 Partners event and Graham and I continue on to discuss more of our thoughts on the conference. Tuesday was a jam packed with some great stuff. So we summarize at a high level by talking about today’s sessions that I attended: Future Trends in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence – Gartner Presentation by Donald Feinberg What’s Your Strategy for Master Data Management – A discussion on systems convergence Gaining CxO’s Support for your EDW and Business Intelligence – Ron Swift – Teradata Teradata Active System Management (TASM) A New Era of Data Integration with ELT approach – CTO one-on-one with Stephen Brobst of Teradata Active Ingest to Support Active Enterprise Intelligence Back Up And Recovery – early morning session What’s New with Stored Procedures The New Query Rewrite Subsystem in V2R12.0 Table Functions: A Tutorial So as you can see a lot of covered ground, so we only go into it in a couple of areas. Download 48_coffeecast_48_teradata_partners_2007_tuesday.mp3 Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 47th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. Live from Las Vegas. Hello from Vegas – baby. It was the end of a great week at the Teradata 2007 Partners event and Graham and I decided to take some time away from the wine and tables to discuss our thoughts on the conference. Monday was a busy day with some great stuff. So we continue by talking about today’s sessions that I attended: Performance Management Top 7 Best Practices The Cause of Poor Performance Strategies and Approaches Data Collection Performance Management Planning Workload Management Tools Download 47_coffeecast_47_teradata_partners_2007_monday_part_2.mp3 Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 46th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. Live from Las Vegas. Hello from Vegas – baby. It is the end of a great week at the Teradata 2007 Partners event and Graham and I have decided to take some time away from the wine and tables to discuss our thoughts on the conference. Monday was a busy day with some great stuff. So we start by talking about today’s sessions that Graham attended: Teradata Query Optimization Statistics Evenly Distribution across nodes Indexes A Little discussion on Nodes and Amps 20 Tb/hour Backup Backup and Recovery Netvault from Bakbone Software The story from eBay Custom built Sun hardware Leveraging Archmain After Image Journaling Download 46_coffeecast_46_teradata_partners_2007_monday_part_1.mp3 Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Download 45_coffeecast_45_teradata_partners_2007_keynote_address.mp3 Welcome to the 45th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. Hello from Vegas – baby. It is the end of day one of the Teradata 2007 Partners event and we have decided to break up the week as individual CoffeeCAST (or as Graham would like to call this one WineCAST as we are at THEhotel at Mandalay Bay bar and not a usual coffee shop having a glass of wine. Today we had a chance to hear some of the first messaging from Teradata since they went out on their own from NCR on Oct.1st. So we start by talking about today’s keynote address where we heard the following: Mike Koehler – President and CEO Teradata – Raising Intelligence The new Teradata allows them to Integrate, Manage and Use – some great strengths Teradata 12 Dual Active Being Green – 5500 server – 2.6 x increase in performance with 75% less energy consumption Partnerships – Microsoft Analytics, Agilent and SAS (see below) Announcement of SAS Partnership and Dr. Goodnight who got up on stage with Mike Joint Engineering Joint solutions Joint Roadmap and Selling Integration of the two products Centre of Excellence for Architects and Consultants with the Goal to cut the cost of data analytics Geoffrey Moore – Analytics and Innovation Why aren’t analytics everyhwere – a brief discussion and point of view Business Architecture Model Complex systems – smaller volume hogher cost environment Volume operations Catagory Maturity Lifecycle Tech adoption growth market mature market declining market Change the vector of innovation Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 44th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. Well it is Wednesday night before Graham goes off to sail and I grabbed him to chat about what is on his mind and have a quick CoffeeCAST. Todays conversation was funnily I think more about the mind and attitudes or approaches to common issues in Information Technology. Today though we only focused on the following: Technology upgrades – The floor sweep mentality Attention Detail The life of Production Support Download 44_coffeecast_44_floor_sweep_mentality_and_details.mp3 Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation. In today’s CoffeeCAST we mention the following companies of which two are Partners of Project X Ltd. Teradata Oracle Netezza HP
Welcome to the 43r CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. I finally had a chance to catch up with Rex Lee who I have known for a while and have been bugging to come onto the CoffeeCAST and he finally submitted on behalf of the kids 😉 We took the time to talk about something which is top of mind to many corporations – collaboration in the enterprise. Rex sets some framework on focusing on the client and then breaks it down into four components or success criteria: innovation speed / agility holistic – end to end approach employee engagement In our discussion Rex mentions a couple of outside reference points: McMaster World Conference on Innovation IBM World Jam Andrew McAfee Download 43_coffeecast_43_collaboration_in_the_enterprise.mp3 Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 42nd CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. I took a few minutes of space at a Starbucks along with Graham Boundy to chat about last weeks Teradata User Group meeting and a few other musings along the way. This was an impromptu meeting without any agenda, but we talked about a couple of technologies that were talked about along with some general thoughts. i won’t give anything away in the show notes right now, but will update with the products tomorrow. Download 42_coffeecast_42_teradata_user_group_and_other_musings.mp3 Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 41st CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. I have been talking with Michael Ianni-Palarchio (MIP) about some capacity planning excercises and MIP has been sharing his experiences with me so we sat down over a java at Starbucks and pulled away from a Florence event and talked about Capacity Planning. We talked about our thoughts on: Who uses capacity plan Where it sits in Strategy The idea of shared services or cost recovery Like an old fashioned ASP (Application Service Provider model) Download 41_coffeecast_41_capacity_planning_with_mip.mp3 Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 40th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. Graham and I grabbed a quiet spot in the office with some fresh Starbucks (coffee for me and tea for him) to talk about Capacity planning. Graham kicks off by discussing Mission statements which funnily enough gave us our segway into the topics of today. Capacity planning planning versus monitoring OLAP (online analytics processing) OLTP (online transaction processing) SOA (service oriented architecture) The model of on demand metrics the old MIP model (no not this MIP) IBM and on demand management Download 40_coffeecast_40_capacity_planning.mp3 Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation. Some organizations mentioned: IBM Oracle Teradata
Welcome to the 39th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. Last week was a bit crazy being on the road, so I took advantage of a blustery day to grab a couple of minutes to share some thoughts around, people, process and technology Download 39_coffeecast_39_people_process_and_technology.mp3 Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation. Today I did mention or a couple of products: IPEDO Casewise Mindjet – MindManager BEA Oracle
Welcome to the 38th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. We are on the road this week, having jumped to Ottawa and Montreal on a three city tour. It is cold and sunny and having some fun. Today I would like to Charles to the CoffeeCAST. We are sitting here late at the lounge of the Sheraton in Montreal enjoying a non-Coffee and I decided to ask him to join in on a conversation that follows up some of the things we have been talking about. Today we talk about: Readiness FIDO – F*** It Drive On The Dog and the Sharp Nail Master Data Management (MDM) Where we spend a bit of time on discussing it’s place and so forth Download coffeecast_38_readiness_and_master_data_management.mp3 Charles, thanks for taking some time today. Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 37th CoffeeCAST (and the first of 2007) with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. It is great to be back. I have been off living the delivery dream stepping over to the dark side (delivery) for a couple of months. But I am back and with a vengence. Today I would like to welcome back Tim Matthews, Co-Founder and VP Marketing at Ipedo. Tim was a guest back in Feb. 2006 on a great CoffeeCAST where he introduced us to the ideas behind Enterprise Information Integration (EII). Today I welcome back Tim in a discussion around: Virtualizaion – creation of abstraction layers Platform Resource Virtualization of Databases – making them appear virtual Database XML X-Query (Oracle) Temperature of Data – (Dan Lindsted Post) Hot Lukewarm Cold State of Affairs and Interest – where are the trends – Banks and Insurance leading Geography Common Views Regulatory issues Web Services Download 01_ipedo_and_virtualization_cc_37.mp3 Tim thanks again for your time and it was a pleasure talking with you. Good luck on your own experimentation on podcasting and Video blogging. Check out his blog Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 36th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. I have been busy at work and not had a lot of time for a leisurely chat over coffee. But I have come back with a great guest today. So join Graham and I as we welcome Justin Lindsay as the new CTO of Netezza. He is a self proclaimed Engineer/Tinkerer who has been evaluating emerging technology in the public sector and jumped at the opportunity to join some friends over at Netezza. So grab a cup of Java as we join Justin over the phone and cover items like: The story – Justin’s background and how he ended up at Netezza A big win at Catalina that is proving out the current abilities of Netezza The history of a purpose built – deep analytics tool that is fast and inexpensive What is Justin Going to do: Find new ways to use the existing technology to empower his customers to question everything. Answering those hard questions that could not be answered before. Leverage and grow the distinct order of magnitude of performance. The Deep Analytics Environment and where does it go: Netezza as an EDW (Enterprise Data Warehouse) SOA – Service Oriented Architecture Interfaces which are tight and closely coupled. Thanks to Brian DeMichele from Schwartz Communications for facilitating this and please note that Project X is a partner of Netezza. Download cc_36_netezza_cto_discussion.mp3 Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 35th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. I have put together a smaller show after some reflection on some projects I have been involved with over the pas little while. I hope you will join in with your thoughts and give me your perspective . Today I will discuss: Project Communication – Good / Bad Team Work Objective Setting and Matching Boundary and Constraint Anxiety Hidden Factors CAP – Capability, Attitude and Presence (Graham’s saying) Thinking – how we think impacts the project Implementation Capability and Capacity Download cc_35_projects_the_challenge.mp3 Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 34th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Boo Scary, it is Halloween and along comes with it a bit of Magic in the air. Today I grabbed Graham as he has been pretty jazzed since finally getting to see the Gartner Magic Quadrant and I wanted to talk a bit about the Magical experience I had on some trainaing. So today we grab some time and hope to continue a conversation that Graham started last week and to begin some discussions. Today we cover: Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems, 2006. You can get the full report here. We talk about IBM DB2, Oracle, Netezza and Teradata (alphabetical) Then we Talk about the High-Impact Consulting course I took over at Robert H Schaffer and Associates. Rapid Results Approach Workout Approach Download cc_34_magic.mp3 Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 33rd CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. OK, so I have been busy and have not had a chance to record a CoffeeCAST. So I got up early this morning, brewed a pot of coffee (Starbucks of course) and recorded some thoughts that I hoped would be of interest. Today I wanted to talk about some things that have been top of mind as we have gone through a large growth phase with new projects, people and discussions. I will touch on the following Process Value Where it Kills People (also refer to some posts) Coaching Learning (Theory vs Practical) Certification (not certifiable) Encouragement, Motivation, Enthusiasm Projects This would have been more fun with Jim or Graham, but maybe next week. Download cc_33_projects_people_process.mp3 Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 32nd CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Well welcome back. Today I have captured Graham for another fun discussion on Data Warehousing and Integration. So I am just finishing a great Starbucks Grande Bold and hope you have found a good coffee yourself for this CoffeeCAST and sit back while Grham and I chat about: Discussion on Cars – Environmentally friendly started by MIP‘s Smartcar (see my pic/post) Datawarehouse New Trends – Out from build to Support and Enhance Marts vs Warehouses (logical/physical) Master Data Management Customer Master File (CMF) Customer Information File (CIF) Data Integration In the Warehouse vs ETL DataStage and Informatica Teradata ELT (Sunopsis) Moving Data So as always it was great to grab a chance to talk with Graham. Download cc_32_warehouses_and_integration.mp3 Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 31st CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today I have Ellen Rubin, VP Marketing of Netezza joining me. I would like to thank Brian over at Schwartz PR for helping set this up. So here I am enjoying a cup of Starbucks brewed at home as we are doing this over the phone. Today we had a chance to chat about: Introduction to Netezza Discontinuity in the marketplace between demand and data and disruptive innovation Value to customers ad-hoc, what-if, simplify, drive cost out eXtreme performance and ease of use The Conference (started yesterday) Keynotes by Clayton Christensen (co-author of The Innovator’s Solution a must read) and Edward Zander (Chairman and CEO of Motorola) Some great topics and announcements Discussion of 5000 series and it’s value in the smaller scaled enterprise (disrupting the Oracle, Teradata, DB2 and now the SQL Server markets) And last but not least we compare Netezza to Apple as innovators and disruptors somewhat tongue-in-cheek. So thank you Ellen who was a last minute stand-in for the new President and COO Jim Baum. I really enjoyed the chat and appreciated the time. I am hoping to be at the conference today, so may have some serious amounts of customer interviews and the like… Download cc_31_talking_with_ellen_rubin_of_netezza.mp3 Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The Podcast is available on iTunes or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 30th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today though we are having a gloomy weather day, I thought we could talk about some items that have been circling around me. So here I am enjoying a cup of Starbucks by myself, so I am really counting on you to join in the conversation through comments or email. Today’s topics includ: Conferences – BEA, Netezza, SAP, Teradata – The month of Enterprise Apps conferences Appliances The golf analogy – Tiger Woods Follow-up from today’s post The talk about technology and total cost of ownership SODA – Might as well go for a SODA – The Kim Mitchell song wraps up our conversation where we talk a little about Service Oriented Data Architecture. Download cc_30_conferences_appliances_and_sodas.mp3 So grab your soda or coffee of choice and join in the conversation. Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The Podcast is available on iTunes or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 29th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. I have been having a good weekend and near the end of last week, I sat down with our friend MIP to talk about some experiences of late on working with vendors and technology in general. So we sat down in a Starbucks at Bayview Avenue and chatted about some of our thoughts. It largely circled around communication, but listen in as we talk about some experiences with You Tube, Bloglines and some others. Download cc_29_working_with_vendors_and_tech.mp3 So we hope you had a great labour day weekend. It’s back to school for the kids, so be careful when driving. Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The Podcast is available on iTunes or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 28th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Oh my god get ready to put those white shoes away it is almost labour day. So it is a lovely day here and Labour Day is almost upon us. With all the activity over the last couple of weeks I have done some thinking on disruption and what it does to us personally and at work. That’s how we came to today’s topic. In today’s episode I talk about the three pillers of People, Process and Technology and how disruption helps to drive evolution and change. Some of the talking points cover: Sourcing – In-source, Out-Source, Global-Source, Offshore Disruptive Innovation Web 2.x – Google’s new Google Apps among others Technology Appliances (Netezza and DATAllegro) Business Process Modelling (BEA Aqualogic, Casewise and others) Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) This is not about the dusruption but the attitude to embrace the learning and build the internal capacity to change and evolve. Download cc_28_disruption_change_and_evolution.mp3 So I hope you have a nice coffee in your hand as I have a home brewed Starbucks. Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The Podcast is available on iTunes or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 27th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. It has been a rollercoater of a week and so we are a little behind in getting out this weeks episode. Before I start I would like to do a shout out to Pete and Cori who got married last Saturday. On a sadder note this episode is dedicated to C. Sanford McFarlane – August 9, 1943 to August 18, 2006 who died last week after a 6 year battle with Cancer. So in honour of Sanford this weeks episode is about Organizational Effectiveness. No further show notes so you will need to listen to learn. Download cc_27_organizational_effectiveness.mp3 So I hope you have a nice coffee in your hand as I have a home brewed Starbucks. Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The Podcast is available on iTunes or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 26th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. It has been a hectic week so we are starting a little late… and yes you are with me again today. I think you will find today covers some interesting topics. Having followed the writting of Robert Schaffer in Rapid Results, I found myself reading some of another Master’s (sorry Maister’s) thoughts David Maister. So under the main thread of a topic we will talk about organizational thinking. Here is what we are going to chat about: David Maister’s blog posts over the past little bit: Can we copy our heros How do we really make decisions Michael Lovaglia, (a professor at the University of Iowa) Doing it through a blanket Organizational Challenge – sounds a bit like guiding principles for Rapid Results Build vs buy Global pressure Working together Download cc_26_organizational_thinking.mp3 So I hope you have a nice coffee in your hand as I have a home brewed Starbucks. Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The Podcast is available on iTunes or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 25th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. We are just coming off a long weekend in Canada (Simcoe day in Ontario). A great weekend and a time to develop some discussion ideas. Today I fly solo and discuss the idea of the ability to do a mind shift. So in today’s episode I am hoping to open some dialogue on some observations I have had over the past 18 months and find challenge the success our customers and consultants have. Technology or Business Results IT Centralized Data Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) AJAX Offshore Outsourcing Sourcing Strategies Failing to deliver on the promises in the sales cycle and the real result the business is looking for Governance, Oversight Guiding Principals Offshoring Gaining momentum even in Canada Growth (IT, BPO, ITOPS) But how do you get the results Download cc_25_mind_shift.mp3 So I hope you have a nice coffee in your hand as I have for a change a home brewed Starbucks. Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The Podcast is available on iTunes or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 24th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. It is a hot one here in Toronto and I bring you a great conversation I had with Jim post some corporate and personal development work we have been doing at Project X. Jim and I thought that today we would share out conversation on some areas that have grown from our internal and external discussions on Rapid Results and some of the subtle differences between (or Bridging the Gap): Deliverables vs Results Time and Materials vs Fixed Price deliverables our IT legacy Challenges we are seeing for IT departments Innovation and Rapid Results – not inclusive or exclusive Some Rapid Results experiences Learning Expirementation Celebrating Success Download cc_24_bridging_the_gap.mp3 So I hope you have a nice coffee in your hand as I have for a change a home brewed Nabob (all out of Starbucks). Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The Podcast is available on iTunes or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 23rd CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Well it has been a challenging summer trying to keep this fresh with people on holidays and a marketplace that seems to be heating up. I grabbed Graham Boundy of Project X to join me in today’s CoffeeCAST where over the phone we had a great chat. The new challenge today was my recording software was intermitent. So I have tried to do some post production editing and mixing. So please be patient the content is worth the effort. Today we cover Working Data Store Material Handling and the Movement of Data Deliverables vs Results Getting the data into the hands of the consumer (IT or the business) In today’s conversation we mention the following organizations: Netezza and a case study of theirs, Teradata, Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server), SAS and Hudsons Bay, Eagle Systems and Vincent McBurney’s POST Download cc_23_talking_with_graham.mp3 So I hope you have a nice coffee in your hand as I had a lovely dopio espresso long. Listen we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The Podcast is available on iTunes or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 22nd CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. We come upon a new week with lots of folks on holidays. This morning our Senge group met to talk about Robert Schaffer’s book Rapid Results (see book on left). After the conversation, Jim and I grabbed a few minutes to talk about a couple of specific observations we had that touched on: The destinction between the words “Deliverable” and “Result” Team Effort (internal and external) Building internal capacity A couple of examples: Customer Relationship Management – CRM Enterprise Data Warehousing – EDW We got cut off at the end, but a good chat. Download cc_22_rapid_results_senge_1.mp3 So I hope you have a nice coffee in your hand as I had a lovely dopio espresso long. Listen we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The Podcast is available on iTunes or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 21st CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. It has been a great week with some wonderful client conversations. They got me thinking about Innovation, Rapid Results and Speed to Market and when I was talking with Michael Ianni-Palarchio (MIP from mipsscan) about them we decided to do a CoffeeCAST. We discuss a number of things, but as a quick indicator here are some of the areas we cover: Rapid Results – something you will see over and over at Project X Some topics from MIP’s mid-week update Innovation Value Networks / SWAT or Specialty Teams Some companies and their approach: Google, Yahoo Mindmapping tool called Mind Manager from Mindjet a product for capture of ideas (C-Map as an open source alternative and Casewise as something a little different again). This was all about working to get business value to the business faster and tools and techniques. Download cc_21_talking_innovation.mp3 So I hope you have a nice coffee, we did. Listen we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topics. The Podcast is available on iTunes or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 20th Episode of the CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. So this CoffeeCAST happens to coincide with Project X’s 1st Anniversary. So as you can imagine, I grabbed Graham, my co-Founder and we decided to sit down and share a view of our year in review. We focused mainly on our Data practice and not some of our Advisory work as it was the area that we shared in common and we also only had so long. Today we talk about: Getting started over his picnic table Working with our first client and now being to five Evolution of our Thinking Reference Architecture Guiding Principles Governance and Stewardship Readiness Rapid Results General Observations Year of Data Value vs Price Metadata Management Look to faster return on Enterprise platforms Working Data Store Active Data Warehousing Information as a Service Download cc_20_pxltd_anniversary.mp3 Today we mention a bunch of different folks and companies so I will list them here so you can learn more: Robert Schaffer, Teradata, Sunopsis, Ipedo, Netezza, Oracle, IBM, Informatica. So I hope you have a nice coffee, we did. Listen we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topics. The Podcast is available on iTunes or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 19th Episode of the CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. I had a chance this week to sit down with Jim (a regular poster and past guest on the CoffeeCAST) where we talked about some of the topics that I have been exploring on the blog. Through the discussion we covered the gambit of my evolution of thinking that has driven me to some areas of strong passion. In this weeks show we talk about: Guiding Principles Reference Architecture Claudia Imhoff Teradata Bill Inmon Active Data Warehousing (Extreme Data Warehousing) Rapid Results Approach / Breakthrough – Robert Schaffer So I hope you have a nice coffee, we did. Listen we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topics. Download cc_19_what_i_am_blogging.mp3 The Podcast is available on iTunes or here for download. Have a great day and join the conversation.
Welcome to the 18th Episode of the CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. As of late I have been interested to see how Process and Organizational change are supported in Enterprise Data Warehousing as the business intelligence gets plugged back into the business continuum. Today Ted Aslanidis of KPMG is joining me to give us some perspective of his on implementation change and transformation. We ended up covering in our chat: Brief intro to Ted and his move Process and Change Management Implementing Business Intelligence (BI) Organizational Change Readiness – a favorite of mine Program Management and Change Management – hand in hand Turning your biggest opponent into your champion Grassroots support generation People Change Francis Hartman of University of Calgary Don’t suppress the information Blogging as a vehicle for change management Culture and Leadership I hope you enjoy the conversation. If you have any thoughts join in the conversation by posting a comment or drop me an email. Offer up a comment and let us know your thoughts. Download cc_18_a_talk_with_ted.mp3 The Podcast is available here or on iTunes for download or subscription. Have a great day. Update: since publishing this today, I ran into a great blog post by James Governor at MonkChips that talks about Lenova and their use of the Blogosphere.
Welcome to the 17th Episode of the CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Ask and you shall receive – I asked and Yves agreed. This week we are podcasting from two continants (North America and France). I have joining me the Director of Product Marketing, Yves de Montcheuil from Sunopsis who just happens to be in France for our chat. Sunopsis is changing the way we do Data Integration with their ELT tool and Integration platform (to know more on ETL vs ELT see these posts EIEIO and ETL vs ELT). In our conversation today we talk about: Complexity of using the tool Type of user How it works (high level) What you want to do – leverage the Process Model Tool How you want to do it – Knowledge Management Tool Benchmarks of ELT vs ETL with some examples UK Health Insurance Company Italian Example – 63 hours to 4 minutes – an extreme case, but interesting in that the old ETL was built in ELT in two weeks. Yves was good not to mention Ascential and Informatica which are ETL platforms. The reason I wanted to discuss the benchmarks was to look at the increase in productivity in developing ETL and the ulitmate cost reduction. Data Movement Data Conductor – ELT in batch Active Integration Platform – Batch, asynchronous and synchronous (service oriented architecture) Download cc_17_sunopsis.mp3 I really enjoyed the conversation and look forward to understanding the product in better detail as we continue our evaluation. I hope you enjoy the conversation. If you have any thoughts join in the conversation by posting a comment or drop me an email. Offer up a comment and let us know your thoughts. The Podcast is available here or on iTunes for download or subscription. Have a great day.
Welcome to the 16th Episode of the CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today I welcome Kim a Program Manager at a large Financial Services organization. Kim came from the IT ranks and then moved onto the business side where whe is running a fairly significant program. Today we will take a business view of Program and Project Management as a personal take by Kim. In today’s episode we talk about the following: Translation of Strategy to Business Objectives What is success Large Project cycles vs Rapid Results approaches – Cultural Impact Portfolio Management Approach in 5 years what do we want Tactical Strategies broken into 1, 2, 3 tactics that can be broken into sub-projects Marketing and the good job they are doing with what they have Six Sigma and lastly a bit on Project Management Download cc_16_program_management.mp3 I hope you enjoy the conversation and decide to join in. Offer up a comment and let us know your thoughts. The Podcast is available here or also on iTunes for download or subscription. Have a great day.
Welcome to the 15th Episode of the CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. This week we are podcasting from the York Mills and Bayview Starbucks. Sitting across from me today is Mark Evans, Senior Technology Reporter at the National Post on Technology and Telco and an active blogger and podcaster in his own right. In todays discussion we touch on: Mesh – Qumana Technology – Web 1.0 – Web Based Services / ASP – Web 2.0 – Dabble db – Google Telecom – Shaw – Small, Medium Business Among many other things Download cc_15_open_mark.mp3 Please enjoy, feel free to join the conversation by adding a comment comment and have a great day! Our Podcast is also available on iTunes as well as here for download. Or come on over to our website at http://www.pxltd.ca.
Welcome to the 14th Episode of the CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. This week we are podcasting from the Bloor and Jarvis having just finished a Senge Circle meeting. I still have most of my Starbucks Venti red-eye and Mark has a new cup of tea. Mark Dymond of IBM is back with me today to talk about his recent trip to India where he was visiting his development team and a third-party provider of his. General Impressions – Delhi, Pune, Mombai (Bombay) Quality of skills and output Strengths and Weknesses Best Practices – Communication – Training (job shadowing) Capability, Attitude and Presnece Campus Experience Please enjoy, feel free to comment and have a great day! Download cc_14_trip_to_india_mark.mp3 Our Podcast is also available on iTunes as well as here for download. Or come on over to our website at http://www.pxltd.ca.
Welcome to the 13th Episode of the CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today we have the opportunity to chat with two people, Robert Shaffer of Robert H. Shaffer and Associates and Jim Hayward of Project X. Jim and Bob have known each other for a while and when Jim and I started talking about breakthrough approaches I suggested we see if we can talk with Bob – so here we are. In today’s CoffeeCAST we talk about Introduction to RHSA practice – helping clients speed and improve performance Leveraging the Capabilities that are already there and not being used – Get rewards along the way, even with big initiatives – Banorte example – Best clients are impatient Rapid-cycle Success (begin, end and specific result) Innovation & Initiative Readiness – Change and Resistance to change Real-case Breakthrough – Project X – Via Rail Continuing Relationships Complexityt vs Simplification Trends in the Business / Burning Issues Thank you Bob for joining me today and please enjoy, feel free to comment and have a great day! Download cc_13_bob_shaffer_1.mp3 Our Podcast is also available on iTunes as well as here for download. Or come on over to our website at http://www.pxltd.ca.
Welcome to the 12th Episode of Coffee Conversations (now to be called CoffeeCAST) with Stephen Hayward of Project X. This week we are podcasting from the Starbucks at Bayview with Michael Ianni-Palarchio (MIP) where we decided to have a spontaneous CoffeeCAST on a variety of subjects. We kicked it off, and covered the following: Spicing up a Board Meeting presentation with Video (iMovie and FinalCut) Blogging technology we had hope for – blurb Our blog conversation on Aligning IT The gambit of Data Warehousing – Data Warehouse – Enterprise Data Warehouse – Active Data Warehouse – Xtreme Data Warehouse – Information as a Service (heard the term in an IBM presentation) and is closely resembles our Data ASP model. Please enjoy, feel free to comment and have a great day! Download cc_12_coffeecast_with_mip.mp3 Our Podcast is also available on iTunes as well as here for download. Or come on over to our website at http://www.pxltd.ca.
Welcome to the 11th Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today talking with me in the Starbucks in Mississauga I have Tim Dickey of Teradata. In his review of some of the conversations and posts he noticed that a lot of our posts have been about building and Enterprise Data Warehouse. So he suggested we talk about what to do once you have an EDW to expand it’s value and improve the value to the business. In today’s conversation we talk about: A ringtone on Tim’s phone – ha ha ha. Centralization trend Active Data Warehouses and trends in which Tim mentions the 2006 Data Warehousing Conference hosted by Adastra Profitability (Howard Morton Coffee Conversation & Teradata Webinar) Data Mart Consolidation and why (in which we mention IBM Corp’s DB2, Oracle Corp, Netezza) Performance Duplication of Data Download cc_11_teradata.mp3 Please enjoy, feel free to comment and have a great day! Our Podcast is also available on iTunes as well as here for download. Or come on over to our website at http://www.pxltd.ca.
Welcome to the 10th Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Join me in welcoming for the first time Mike Lemmon a Sr Project Manager, who is here to join me in a brief discussion on Project Management and more specifically some of the things you need to do as Project Manager under the pressures of cost and time contraction. In today’s episode we will discuss: Speed to Market – mention our good friend MIP (so a quick shout out to you). Virtual teams – as well as a tool that we use when dealing with virtual and global teams called Groove. and some other great points. Please enjoy, feel free to comment and have a great day! Download cc_10_project_management_2.mp3 Our Podcast is also available on iTunes as well as here for download. Or come on over to our website at http://www.pxltd.ca.
Welcome to the 9th Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today I welcome back Jim to join me in a discussion on Metaphors and Technology. In a post we did a couple of weeks ago and again this week, we endeavoured to use metaphors to help ground the various aspects of Data Warehousing. So as Harvey would say “Keep it simple, I am a simple man”. Download cc_9_metaphors_and_technology.mp3 Please enjoy, feel free to comment and have a great day! Our Podcast is also available on iTunes as well as here for download.
Welcome to the 8th Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. This week we are podcasting from the Canadian Teradata User Group Meeting in Toronto Canada. Graham and I talk about our different views having attended the Business and Technical streams talking about Active Data Warehousing and then add some experience from Project X. We kick off with a general overview and then go into what is and what is the value of an Active Data Warehouse: Strategic Intelligence (OLAP / EDW / BI and Analytics) – Back office intelligence – Intelligence for … sales/marketing/forecasting etc. Operational Intelligence (OLTP, ODS) – Front-line Customer Intelligence – self serve, call centre, customer facing – Intelligence for operational execution … and how these two aligned together make up an active data warehouse. We also mention two case studies in the retail sector and a brief TCO initial discussion. Download cc_8_active_data_warehouse.mp3 Please enjoy, feel free to comment and have a great day! Our Podcast is also available on iTunes as well as here for download.
Welcome to the 7th Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. It’s the first Tuesday of April, we all made it through April fools day. Today I have with me Mark Dymond, Director of Application Services at IBM who is responsible for one of their largest Canadian outsourcing clients. I have known Mark for a while and he and Graham worked together over the years. So welcom Mark, today we are discussing the following: Thoughts on Program and Project Management – Keys to Project Management – Communication – Clarity – Key Performance Indicators – Differences in the role between Program and Project Management Delivery Models – Agile vs Waterfall Offshoring as a part of your team Please enjoy, feel free to comment and have a great day! Download cc_7_project_management.mp3 Our Podcast is also available on iTunes as well as here for download. PS – the discussion are Mark’s personal thoughts and not that of IBM proper
Welcome to the 6th Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today I welcome one of our Senior Consultants and an Advisory Board member Jim Hayward, former co-founder of Gellman Hayward and Partners, which is now a part of CGI. Today in our discussion from the Don Cesar in sunny Florida we discuss: The Senge Circle – a working group started in the late 80’s or early 90’s where among many things (and we highlight) the group has discussed: The Fifth Discipline – Peter Senge The Power of Now – Eckert Tolle The Power of Productivity – William Lewis Built to Last – James Collins and Jerry Porras in this we mention the visionary companies, but I do not list them here. Change Management Readiness – Insight/Understanding – based on Bob Schaffer article (Advice to Internal & External Consultants: Expand Your Client’s Capacity to Use Your Help, Robert H. Schaffer, Advanced Management Journal, Autumn 1976) The Use of Steering Committees A few client stories And some other tidbits Download cc_6_senge_and_change_management.mp3 Please enjoy, feel free to comment and have a great day! Our Podcast is also available on iTunes as well as here for download.
Welcome to the 5th Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today I welcome my business partner Graham Boundy, co-founder of Project X and the head of our Data Warhousing practice in regards to a method of getting the data into the hands of the user leveraging an Enterprise Data Warehouse implementation model called the Working Data Store. In this we discuss: Single version of the truth Working Data Store – an introduction to a proven approach ETL vs ELT In our discussions we mention DB2, Microsoft, Microstrategy, Oracle, and Teradata. Download cc_5_working_data_store.mp3 Please enjoy, feel free to comment and have a great day! Our Podcast is also available on iTunes as well as here for download.
Welcome to the 4th Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today we will be talking with Howard Morton, Managing Partner of Boardwalk International Advisors (www.bia-inc). In today’s conversation we will be talking about the following: Howard’s experience in driving a Bahiour Based Customer Profitability Strategy leveraging the Teradata Value Analyzer How to get started Return on investment Management buy in Guiding Principles Lessons learned Download howard_morton_behaviour_based_profitability_20051117.ppt His new foray into Management Consulting and Merchant Banking. Download cc_4_profitability_analysis.mp3 So again thanks to Howard for the time and best of luck on the new venture. Please enjoy, feel free to comment and have a great day! Our Podcast is also available on iTunes as well as here for download.
This is the Third of Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today we will be talking with Steve Schaefer where we will cover: Fundamentals from a vendor point of view Objectives Information and Business Process Outsourcing Outsourcing as a tool, not the objective Cost and/or Transformation Trends Challenge the Norm – Change in the Nature of Outsourcing Article referenced Our Podcast is available on iTunes as well as here for download Cracking the Whip at Wyeth Disaggregation Offshoring Governance, Management and Monitoring So please enjoy, feel free to comment and have a great day! Download cc_3_outsourcing.mp3 As an observation, the Starbucks was a bit noisy in the background, I will change locations for the future. But as this is part of the nature of the show, I didn’t try and edit it out, so please enjoy. Our Podcast is also available on iTunes as well as here for download.
This is the Second of Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today we will be talking with Tim Matthews, Co-Founder and VP Marketing from Ipedo in regards to: Enterprise Information Integration – introduction and where it sits in the Enterprise Architecture Data as a Service How it can enhance and enrich Data Governance So please enjoy, feel free to comment and have a great day! Download cc_2_enterprise_information_integration_v2.mp3 Our Podcast is available on iTunes as well as here for download You can also go and visit Tim at his Blog This is Tim by the way.
This is a first of Episode of Coffee Conversations. Today we will be talking with Michael Ianni-Palarchio (MIP) in regards to: Innovation Approach to client success Focus on Business not Technology. So please enjoy, feel free to comment and have a great day. Our Podcast is available on iTunes as well as here for download Download 01_innovation_with_mip_1.mp3.