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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                    It's cheaper than ever to host data processing workloads on IBM's zSeries mainframes. Now Rocket Software is touting the hitherto unthinkable: data virtualization for big iron.
                    
			            - By Steve  Swoyer
 - August 8, 2016
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    For self-service BI, spreadsheets are extremely useful, but there are much better, more user-friendly alternatives to Excel when it comes to self-service data prep. 
                    
			            - By Steve  Swoyer
 - August 5, 2016
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A new survey basically confirms it: we're in the midst of a renaissance in which machine learning technologies are both widely available and increasingly easy to use.
                    
			            - By Steve  Swoyer
 - August 4, 2016
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    To support IoT and Industrial IoT use cases, data integration must become both more automated and more explicitly analytical. In other words, it needs to be smarter.
                    
			            - By Steve  Swoyer
 - August 1, 2016
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    According to the latest revenue reports, Amazon Web Services is a bona fide giant in data management and analytics, and it's poised to get even bigger.
                    
			            - By Steve  Swoyer
 - July 29, 2016
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Data scientist Denny Lee shares three must-have skills for data scientists and argues that being asked to do the impossible brings out the best in an analyst.
                    
			            - By Steve  Swoyer
 - July 29, 2016