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TDWI Upside - Where Data Means Business

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.

  


All articles by Steve Swoyer


Beyond ETL: On Demand ETL and the Big Shift in BI and Analysis

An emerging trend -- "on-demand" ETL -- augurs a big shift in the way analysis and BI are performed and results disseminated.

Adopting a More Rigorous Approach to BI

BI is increasingly taking on the metaphor of the scientific method: a model in which hypotheses can be tested and proven.

Hadoop Reconsidered: A Data Management Perspective

After half a decade, Hadoop remains a divisive technology. Some data managers think Hadoop has the potential to be hugely transformative; others see it as a more pedestrian proposition.

Analysis: What's All the Hadoop-la? EMC Breaks Out with Pivotal HD

EMC Corp. arguably stole the show at last month's Strata 2013 conference, announcing the equivalent of a SQL-compliant, high-performance RDBMS running on top of Hadoop: Pivotal HD.

New, Updated Products Abound at TDWI World Conference

An unprecedented number of vendors unveiled new products at last month's TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas.

BI, Analytic Growth to Slow in 2013, Gartner Says

This year’s projected 7 percent growth rate for BI and analytics software is good -- but hardly spectacular, given that BI software sales grew 16 percent in 2011. What’s dragging down the market?

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