Guest Blogger: John O’Melia
John O’ Melia, Head of Services, EMC IIG Division
It wasn’t too long ago when the IT group in almost all large companies selected the technology platforms upon which they would build the business applications for the organization. For many the goal was to deliver enterprise class solutions that could be rolled out across the organization with manageable pain and be supported and maintained with a reasonable TCO. The “magic” for many of these organizations was getting just enough business user involvement to validate their work. They would identify business unit representatives to be involved in their vendor selection work and in their requirements definition work and they would leverage these same folks to help to drive the implementation of the solution to their business units in the later stages of Read the rest of this post »
As Chief Strategy Officer, Jeetu Patel is responsible for orchestrating and driving EMC Information Intelligence Group’s (IIG) cross-category product vision, growth strategy, innovation agenda, cloud computing and big data initiatives. Additionally, he heads up Worldwide Marketing for IIG, where he is responsible for product marketing, thought leadership, as well as competitive, vertical and solutions marketing.
