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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All articles by Steve Swoyer
At the re:Invent conference, Amazon announced a slew of new products, services, and features, including a technology for querying against its S3 storage service and a new AI framework.
- By Steve Swoyer
- December 6, 2016
Couldn't master data management practitioners tackle MDM as a series of small iterative projects like agile coders would? Instead of enterprisewide efforts, why not start with pragmatic projects that deliver immediate value?
- By Steve Swoyer
- November 22, 2016
At TDWI's recent Executive Summit, Mark Madsen asked: is there a statistically significant correlation between sales of beer and sales of diapers or has the correlation been misused.
- By Steve Swoyer
- November 15, 2016
According to Gartner, AI and new machine learning techniques will enable a new class of intelligent apps and intelligent things -- along with the emergence of so-called digital twins.
- By Steve Swoyer
- November 8, 2016
What does it take to be a data engineer? A background in software engineering doesn't hurt. Although the number of data engineers doubled from 2013 to 2015, that growth rate far outstripped that of data scientists.
- By Steve Swoyer
- November 4, 2016
Gartner recently published its first-ever "Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions". Managing metadata isn't a new problem but it has certainly become a strategic one.
- By Steve Swoyer
- November 2, 2016