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 his own company 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, focused on Information Management.
Information management includes anything that refers to the management, movement, governance and storage of data, as well as access to and analysis of that data. It involves diverse technologies that include (but are not limited to) databases and data warehousing, data integration, data quality, master data management, data governance, data migration, metadata management, and data preparation and analytics.
In addition to the numerous reports Philip has written on behalf of Bloor Research, Philip also contributes regularly to IT-Director.com and IT-Analysis.com and was previously 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 written a number of reports published by companies such as CMI and The Financial Times. Philip speaks regularly at conferences and other events throughout Europe and North America.
Away from work, Philip’s primary leisure activities are canal boats, skiing, playing Bridge (at which he is a Life Master), and dining out.
Research from Philip Howard
- EUC Management and Governance on 5th September, 2022
- Software AG CONNX on 28th June, 2021
- Pure-play Data Quality on 29th March, 2021
- Datactics on 29th March, 2021
- Data Ladder on 29th March, 2021
- DQ Global on 29th March, 2021
- D&B Optimizer on 29th March, 2021
- Experian Aperture Data Studio on 29th March, 2021
- Global IDs Enterprise Data Automation on 29th March, 2021
- Syniti Knowledge Platform (March 2021) on 29th March, 2021
- (Cloud) Data Management Platforms on 3rd March, 2021
- Talend Data Fabric on 3rd March, 2021
- Solix Cloud Management on 3rd March, 2021
- Qlik Data Integration Platform on 3rd March, 2021
- Oracle Unified Information Management Platform on 3rd March, 2021
- Informatica Intelligent Data Platform (2021) on 3rd March, 2021
- IBM Cloud Pak for Data on 3rd March, 2021
- Hitachi Vantara Lumada on 3rd March, 2021
- Cloudera Data Platform on 3rd March, 2021
- Ataccama ONE on 3rd March, 2021
- MarkLogic Data Hub on 2nd March, 2021
- N5 Rumi on 11th February, 2021
- Silwood Safyr on 5th February, 2021
- Pure-play Data Integration on 4th February, 2021
- CloverDX on 4th February, 2021
- Matillion ETL (2021) on 4th February, 2021
- Fivetran (2021) on 4th February, 2021
- Astera Centerprise on 4th February, 2021
- Actian DataConnect / AvalancheConnect on 4th February, 2021
- SnapLogic Intelligent Integration Platform on 4th February, 2021
- Data for everyone: treating data as an asset on 23rd November, 2020
- What does “cloud native” really mean? on 13th November, 2020
- Knowledge Graphs: are they just for people to explore, or are they broader than that? on 12th November, 2020
- IRI Voracity on 6th November, 2020
- The Snowflake IPO on 21st September, 2020
- Ontotext makes life easier on 17th September, 2020
- Graph Database (2020) on 11th September, 2020
- Amazon Neptune on 11th September, 2020
- Cambridge Semantics AnzoGraph (2020) on 11th September, 2020
- DataStax Enterprise (DSE) (Graph Engine) on 11th September, 2020
- AllegroGraph (2020) on 11th September, 2020
- Grakn Core and Grakn KGMS (2020) on 11th September, 2020
- MarkLogic Data Hub Service and MarkLogic Server on 11th September, 2020
- Memgraph (2020) on 11th September, 2020
- Neo4j (2020) on 11th September, 2020
- Objectivity ThingSpan (2020) on 11th September, 2020
- Ontotext GraphDB and the Ontotext Platform on 11th September, 2020
- RedisGraph (2020) on 11th September, 2020
- Sparsity Technologies Sparksee on 11th September, 2020
- Stardog (2020) on 11th September, 2020
- TigerGraph (2020) on 11th September, 2020
- Informatica acquires GreenBay on 25th August, 2020
- A decision guide: when to move data and when to query it where it lives on 30th July, 2020
- Covid-19 and IT on 7th July, 2020
- Informatica acquires Compact Solutions on 3rd July, 2020
- Options for analytic databases and warehouses (2020) on 1st July, 2020
- Actian Avalanche on 1st July, 2020
- Cazena on 1st July, 2020
- Cloudera Data Warehouse on 1st July, 2020
- Exasol on 1st July, 2020
- Greenplum Database on 1st July, 2020
- IBM Db2 Event Store on 1st July, 2020
- Starburst Presto on 1st July, 2020
- Teradata Vantage (July 2020) on 1st July, 2020
- Vertica Analytics Platform (2020) on 1st July, 2020
- Yellowbrick Data on 1st July, 2020
- Netezza Resurrection on 5th June, 2020
- Discovering Sensitive Data (2020) on 21st May, 2020
- Ab Initio Semantic Discovery on 21st May, 2020
- Lumada Data Catalog on 21st May, 2020
- Seeker DLP on 21st May, 2020
- STEALTHbits Sensitive Data Discovery on 21st May, 2020
- DataSunrise Sensitive Data Discovery on 21st May, 2020
- Solix Technologies Sensitive Data Discovery on 21st May, 2020
- Dataguise DgSecure on 21st May, 2020
- MENTIS iDiscover on 21st May, 2020
- BigID on 21st May, 2020
- Ground Labs Enterprise Recon (2020) on 21st May, 2020
- Informatica Data Privacy Management (2020) on 21st May, 2020
- Global IDs Sensitive Data Discovery (2020) on 21st May, 2020
- The impact of working from home on 31st March, 2020
- Application Quality Assurance on 1st March, 2020
- Data Assurance on 1st March, 2020
- Time-Series and Temporal databases and analytics on 28th February, 2020
- CrateDB (February 2020) on 28th February, 2020
- TrendMiner, a Software AG company on 28th February, 2020
- IBM Informix on 28th February, 2020
- Teradata Vantage 4D (February 2020) on 28th February, 2020
- Trendalyze (February 2020) on 28th February, 2020
- InfluxDB on 28th February, 2020
- QuasarDB on 28th February, 2020
- TIBCO Spotfire (for time-series) on 28th February, 2020
- Kx Systems kdb+ and Kx Technology on 28th February, 2020
- Interana on 28th February, 2020
- FaunaDB on 28th February, 2020
- Victoria Metrics (Prometheus) on 28th February, 2020
- TimescaleDB on 28th February, 2020
- Redis Enterprise (February 2020) on 28th February, 2020
- McObject eXtremeDB on 28th February, 2020
- End User Computing: What it is and why you should care on 17th February, 2020