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
Starting salary growth in IT is poised to outpace all other job segments -- including legal and finance/accounting. Which positions are most in demand?
- By Steve Swoyer
- October 18, 2016
Enterprise customers are beginning to shift from IoT proofs of concept to "scalable" deployments that exploit IoT analytics.
- By Steve Swoyer
- October 14, 2016
A new research paper points to a growing "digital divide" between digital leaders and laggards, finding that digital leaders outperform digital laggards even among similar firms.
- By Steve Swoyer
- October 13, 2016
Marketing professor Andrew Stephen sees two primary problems with the way most companies handle social media analytics: a lack of data-driven assessment and social contagion.
- By Steve Swoyer
- October 12, 2016
When two companies merge, are their products or services different enough to justify separate existences? Researchers are using social media analytics to answer these types of questions.
- By Steve Swoyer
- October 11, 2016
The data warehouse still has a big part to play in the way companies develop, deliver, and consume analytics. Data scientist James Bird and his team built a forecasting application based on a mix of open source software and an existing data warehouse.
- By Steve Swoyer
- October 7, 2016