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
DevOps addresses the challenge of engineering, deploying, and maintaining software for production use. IBM says we need something similar for advanced analytics and data science.
- By Steve Swoyer
- September 1, 2016
Slowly but surely, Microsoft is making Power BI into an extremely useful platform for advanced analysis. New improvements promise to make analysts even more productive.
- By Steve Swoyer
- August 31, 2016
Amazon is one of a "Gang of Four" -- the others are Microsoft, IBM, and Google -- that control the cloud hosting market. Amazon and AWS have more than twice the share of runner-up Microsoft.
- By Steve Swoyer
- August 30, 2016
This week, Teradata announced four new Analytics Accelerators for IoT and made good on a promise to port its Aster discovery platform to Hadoop -- and to Amazon's AWS.
- By Steve Swoyer
- August 26, 2016
The members of a data science team need to collaborate with one another in real time, and data science start-up Dataiku claims to have the best tool for the job.
- By Steve Swoyer
- August 25, 2016
Data science is a team effort that depends on vital contributions from data engineers, data architects, business analysts, and business subject matter experts.
- By Steve Swoyer
- August 24, 2016