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Contributor: Steve Swoyer


Stephen Swoyer is a technology writer with more than 16 years of experience. His writing has focused on business intelligence, data warehousing, and analytics for almost a decade. He’s particularly intrigued by the thorny people and process problems most BI and DW vendors almost never want to acknowledge, let alone talk about.

  


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Qlik Embraces Platform-as-a-Product in New, Updated Offerings

Qlik recently fleshed out its Qlik Sense platform with a new cloud service and a new developer-oriented analytic platform, plus a new version 2.0 release of Qlik Sense.

Grading BI Vendors

A new research tool could fill a gaping void in the BI-osphere.

Report: Data Virtualization Market is Strong

The data virtualization space is teeming, peopled by feature-rich platforms from Cisco, Denodo, IBM, and Informatica as well as a few upstarts.

Hadoop, Cheap Storage, and Parallel Processing

Casting Hadoop as a platform for cheap storage -- e.g., a Hadoop-based "data lake" -- only gets at half of what makes Hadoop new, compelling, and uniquely valuable.

ThoughtSpot Touts a Data Warehouse-less Take on Ad Hoc Query -- and Dashboards

ThoughtSpot dubs itself a "relational search appliance."

Are You Ready for Data-Driven Apps?

The latest entry in TDWI's "Checklist Reports" series tackles a particularly pertinent question: What does the term "data-driven" actually mean?

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