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
Quest hopes to tap the Toad brand -- and Toad's popularity in IT departments -- to help it push its way into enterprise BI.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 23, 2012
Machine-generated data poses big challenges that can make it difficult for any relational competitor to be dominant.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 23, 2012
SAP outlines an "Applied Analytics" push that will have it competing with SAS and other powerhouses in the market for industry-specific analytic applications.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 16, 2012
Most businesses are still getting their business intelligence houses in order, focusing on dashboards, self-service, and other priorities. They aren't yet ready for big data.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 9, 2012
Which is the best discovery platform? According to several prominent analytic database vendors, it doesn't matter. You're asking the wrong question.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 8, 2012
Forget tools, forget systems, forget architectures. Forget data itself. What's needed is a radically new information ecosystem.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 25, 2012