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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All articles by Steve Swoyer
Google officially unveiled its long-incubating Google Cloud Dataproc, a PaaS offering the company says takes most of the responsibility -- and a big share of the cost -- of deploying and managing Hadoop and Spark clusters out of the equation.
- By Steve Swoyer
- April 25, 2016
There's no shortage of players that market self-service data prep tools. Only Alteryx is also in the "Visionaries" quadrant of Gartner's "Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms."
- By Steve Swoyer
- April 22, 2016
Get ready for the elastic data warehouse -- which is what, exactly?
- By Steve Swoyer
- April 21, 2016
Big data platforms such as Hadoop, Cassandra, and Spark are usurping the central role of the ETL engine that is at the heart of data integration.
- By Steve Swoyer
- April 18, 2016
The smartwatch has arrived -- and how! Is it too soon to talk about optimizing dashboards for the "wearable experience?"
- By Steve Swoyer
- April 13, 2016
If an advanced analytics project is going to succeed you gave to market it -- hard.
- By Steve Swoyer
- April 11, 2016