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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                    DevOps addresses the challenge of engineering, deploying, and maintaining software for production use. IBM says we need something similar for advanced analytics and data science.
                    
			            - By Steve  Swoyer
- September 1, 2016
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Slowly but surely, Microsoft is making Power BI into an extremely useful platform for advanced analysis. New improvements promise to make analysts even more productive.
                    
			            - By Steve  Swoyer
- August 31, 2016
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Amazon is one of a "Gang of Four" -- the others are Microsoft, IBM, and Google -- that control the cloud hosting market. Amazon and AWS have more than twice the share of runner-up Microsoft.
                    
			            - By Steve  Swoyer
- August 30, 2016
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    This week, Teradata announced four new Analytics Accelerators for IoT and made good on a promise to port its Aster discovery platform to Hadoop -- and to Amazon's AWS.
                    
			            - By Steve  Swoyer
- August 26, 2016
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    The members of a data science team need to collaborate with one another in real time, and data science start-up Dataiku claims to have the best tool for the job.
                    
			            - By Steve  Swoyer
- August 25, 2016
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Data science is a team effort that depends on vital contributions from data engineers, data architects, business analysts, and business subject matter experts. 
                    
			            - By Steve  Swoyer
- August 24, 2016