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
How often do people actually use BI technologies? BI adoption can't seem to crack 25 percent. What if the users actually working with BI are using it to the max?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 27, 2014
Vendors such as GridGain say they want to democratize in-memory computing, but that's happening right now. The prerequisites are falling into place.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 27, 2014
TDWI Research's Philip Russom describes a logical architecture that knits together the multi-platform present (with its panoply of databases) into a diverse data warehouse environment, or DWE.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 13, 2014
Integration platform-as-a-service, or iPaaS, is a big category: it encompasses everything from traditional application and data integration to integration between and among REST-ful applications.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 6, 2014
Historically, a shockingly small proportion of potential information consumers has actually used BI. It's beginning to seem as if that isn't ever going to change.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 6, 2014
If you want to understand data integration in an age of analytic heterogeneity, you must follow the process: process movement, not data or workload movement, is where it's at.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- April 8, 2014