Philip Howard
Research Director - Data Management
Bloor Research
Philip started in the computer industry way back in 1973 and has variously worked as a systems analyst, programmer and salesperson, as well as in marketing and product management, for a variety of companies including GEC Marconi, GPT, Philips Data Systems, Raytheon and NCR.
After a quarter of a century of not being his own boss Philip set up what is now P3ST (Wordsmiths) Ltd in 1992 and his first client was Bloor Research (then ButlerBloor), with Philip working for the company as an associate analyst. His relationship with Bloor Research has continued since that time and he is now Research Director. His practice area encompasses anything to do with data and content and he has five further analysts working with him in this area. While maintaining an overview of the whole space Philip himself specialises in databases, data management, data integration, data quality, data federation, master data management, data governance and data warehousing. He also has an interest in event stream/complex event processing.
In addition to the numerous reports Philip has written on behalf of Bloor Research, Philip also contributes regularly to www.IT-Director.com and www.IT-Analysis.com and was previously the editor of both "Application Development News" and "Operating System News" on behalf of Cambridge Market Intelligence (CMI). He has also contributed to various magazines and published a number of reports published by companies such as CMI and The Financial Times.
Away from work, Philip's primary leisure activities are canal boats, skiing, playing Bridge (at which he is a Life Master) and walking the dog.
Contributions
There are a total of 744 articles written by Philip Howard, the listing has been split over 38 pages:
- 21/06/12 - Federating Big Data
- 18/06/12 - QlikTech acquires expressor
- 14/06/12 - HPCC: a Hadoop competitor or a data warehouse in its own right?
- 31/05/12 - Objectivity and InfiniteGraph
- 30/05/12 - HP reverts to type
- 25/05/12 - There's something funny about Change Management
- 25/05/12 - Big Data bias
- 18/05/12 - Ancelus
- 14/05/12 - What exactly is in-memory?
- 14/05/12 - Graph databases and the warehouse
- 11/05/12 - Service virtualisation
- 11/05/12 - YarcData
- 11/05/12 - Neo4j
- 04/05/12 - Graph databases and NoSQL
- 03/05/12 - Teradata and SAS join forces
- 03/05/12 - What's a graph?
- 02/05/12 - The problem with matching
- 17/04/12 - Is YourSQL running too slowly?
- 16/04/12 - IBM and DB2 version 10
- 05/04/12 - Banks collaborating! Shock! Horror!