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
Predixion's goal was to develop a solution that makes data mining and predictive analytics consumable and usable by rank-and-file workers. Has it succeeded?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- April 3, 2012
Host Analytics says its cloud pedigree gives it advantages relative to its on-premises competitors in corporate performance management.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- April 3, 2012
Microsoft bids "adios" to OLE-DB.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 27, 2012
Thanks to a combination of social, mobility, cloud, Big Data, and other forces, business intelligence and data warehousing are on the cusp of profound transformations. The question is: which way are these technologies headed?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 27, 2012
A decade ago, using spreadsheets to manage ETL source mappings might've made sense. Today, an upstart BI vendor claims, it isn't just inelegant -- it's anachronistic.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 27, 2012
For a company that's best known as a provider of back-end plumbing, Tibco's tibbr and Spotfire solutions comprise a very visible public face.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 20, 2012