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.
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All articles by Steve Swoyer
With its new Big Data Maturity Model, TDWI serves up an online tool organizations can use to gauge the progress of their big data practices.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 17, 2013
Big data or the data warehouse? Pick the wrong platform for the wrong workload and you could find yourself racking up hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of dollars in extra costs.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 17, 2013
A new TDWI report outlines a best practices approach to big data management.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 10, 2013
Rather than worrying about new technologies, organizations should be sweating the small stuff: the bread-and-butter activities such as operational reporting or scorecards that still perplex so many enterprises.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 12, 2013
Think of SaaS newcover Treasure Data as a kind of Hadoop-as-a-service offering, albeit one with an emphasis on data warehousing workloads.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 5, 2013
Composite used to market data virtualization as "the logical next step." The conceptual vision Cisco outlined recently is both logical and bold.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 22, 2013