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.
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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                    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