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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                    There's still a teeming market for best-of-breed data-source and application connectivity software. Business intelligence (BI) and analytics use cases, which emphasize ODBC and JDBC, are as hot as ever -- but so are RESTful APIs. 
                    
			            - By Steve  Swoyer
 - May 11, 2016
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Big data engineer will be among the hottest jobs in 2016, with starting salary growth of almost 9 percent. Wait, what's a big data engineer? 
                    
			            - By Steve  Swoyer
 - May 10, 2016
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    How many organizations are actually making meaningful use of IoT data?
                    
			            - By Steve  Swoyer
 - May 9, 2016
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A recent market survey highlights how much the data warehousing market -- and what's meant by the term "data warehouse" -- has changed. 
                    
			            - By Steve  Swoyer
 - May 6, 2016
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The impetus for MDM should come from within and be shared by all of the lines of business. There must be a consensus that there's a business problem and that MDM is the solution. 
                    
			            - By Steve  Swoyer
 - May 5, 2016
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and other traditional DI powers are no longer leading the integration-platform-as-a-service pack. Instead, they're working feverishly on HIP for the interconnected environments of the future.
                    
			            - By Steve  Swoyer
 - May 5, 2016