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.
All articles by Steve Swoyer
Unlike QlikView, Qlik Sense is designed to cater to analysts, power users, and to other information consumers who want an interactive visual discovery experience.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 18, 2014
For too long, data management and application development have been tracking on two radically different vectors, each with its own distinctive momentum. That must change.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 18, 2014
A new MPP query engine called Bright Vine has what it claims is a can't-miss pitch.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 11, 2014
Does IBM's new Watson Analytics offering herald the advent of a new class of quasi-intelligent machines capable of beating the best of human analysts at their own game?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 4, 2014
SAS Visual Statistics is designed to make the statistically fluent even more productive. Crucially, this is a class that includes business analysts, power users, and other non-traditional "statisticians."
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 14, 2014
Agile isn't a methodology or a toolset or even a state of mind, Forrester's report argues. If anything, it's a platform play -- just don't call it an enterprise BI platform play.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 7, 2014