I recently returned from my seventh annual Boulder BI Brain Trust presentation. The BBBT as everyone likes to call it, is unique in the business intelligence, data and analytics industry.

Since 2006, the BBBT has advanced this industry by organizing half-day vendor presentations to their over 140 members.  During these presentations, vendors such as the Cisco's Data and Analytics organization, update BBBT members on new strategies, evolving technologies, customer adoption and more.  In return the vendors get valuable feedback from the BBBT's global network of analysts, consultants and academics.

Cisco's Expanded Data and Analytics Portfolio

Mike Flannagan, General Manager of Cisco's Data and Analytics Business Group, led off this year by identifying four key trends creating new business opportunities for our customers, as well as disrupting their traditional data management approaches.

1. Increased speed of business and rising customer expectations
2. Data is the new competitive battlefield
3. Data is increasingly distributed
4. Data at the edge volumes are extreme

Mike then discussed the coming together of Cisco's data and analytics portfolio over the past year in order to comprehensively address these trends. These solutions include:

• Cisco Data Virtualization, added to the portfolio a year ago when Cisco acquired Composite Software.
• Cisco Prime Analytics, the former Truviso products.
• Cisco Data In Motion, from the TigerMe acquisition.
• Cisco Connected Analytics, a set of packaged analytics applications targeted for specific market segments including retail, healthcare, service provider, city infrastructure, call center, and more.

Billions of Devices Generating Even Bigger Data

Following Mike, Jim Green, CTO for Mike's group, discussed the data and analytic implications that will result as 30 billion additional devices connect over the network within then next five years.

The business outcome and analytics opportunities from these devices are endless.  However the data volumes generated will make even today's big data seem small. And how all these come together in an already complex data landscape is an Internet of Everything challenge everyone will soon face.

Data Virtualization Advances

Kevin Ott, General Manager of the Data Virtualization Business Unit, and I closed out this year's BBBT with updates on data virtualization market dynamics, customer adoption trends and our product strategy for maintaining product leadership in this increasingly important foundation technology.  Join us at Data Virtualization Day on October 1, 2014, in New York City where Cisco, our customers and prominent analysts will share more on these topics.  Sign up soon as space is limited. #DVDNYC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0FGrSpD5pA&index=4&list=PLFT-9JpKjRTDSyR4jbCVS5e94fzzhIzWz

Gain a BBBT Insider's View

Check out these three sources to gain an insider's view on Cisco's BBBT presentation:

• Listen to Mike Flannagan and Jim Green's podcast with BBBT co-founder Claudia Imhoff.
• Read acknowledged data warehousing pioneer and BBBT member, Barry Devlin's blog.
• Review over 100 tweets from BBBT members by filtering on#BBBT.

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