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
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