On a typical day, a finance executive has to source accurate business data either by using dashboards in business intelligence tools such as Tableau or Looker, or by running complex SQL queries.

On the eve of another Strata week, EMC Greenplum announced Pivotal HD, a Hadoop distribution that is tightly integrated with an MPP database engine called HAWQ. What all this alphabet soup means ...

10. Think hybrid. To be safe, hybrid - mixing cloud services and on-premise - is the way to go. Data Summit is an annual 2-day conference, preceded by a day of workshops. Data Summit offers a ...