What is Spark and why should consumers of BI and business analytics care about it?
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- January 6, 2015
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Most survey respondents give their organizations a high grade for its ability to leverage data for making decisions, but problems persist.
                    
			            - By James E. Powell
- December 19, 2014
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The year that was 2014 was a transitional year in business intelligence and data management, with vendors emphasizing data visualization, storytelling, databases, Spark, and intriguing inventions.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- December 16, 2014
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Teradata debuts  key deliverables in its QueryGrid initiative.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- December 16, 2014
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    All seven predictions the author made last year came true.  What's ahead for 2015?  Here are seven new predictions for the New Year.
                    
			            - By Mike  Schiff
- December 16, 2014
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Is the notion of a combined platform for OLTP and data warehousing an idea whose time has come?
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- December 9, 2014
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Chorus from Alpine Data Labs is a predictive analytics tool designed for data scientists and business analysts. With its new Chorus 5.0 release, Alpine says it's reaching out to not-so-techie consumers, too.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- December 9, 2014