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
What is Wherescape 3D and why is it free? One industry watcher say it's unlike anything he's aware of in the market.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 4, 2011
Kognitio says it has two things going for it as it prepares to tackle Wall Street: a next-gen spin on OLAP and WX2, its Big Data, in-memory DBMS.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 20, 2011
If a single, combined platform for transaction processing and analytics is a bad idea, isn't it likewise a bad idea to champion a single DW platform for the wild profusion of analytic workloads? Netezza, an IBM Company, thinks so.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 20, 2011
There's a lot of excitement in the BI space in spite of all of the megavendor consolidation. We examine three new offerings.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 23, 2011
With its forthcoming Teradata v14 release, Teradata is going columnar, and that's just for starters.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 16, 2011
Two business intelligence vendors are taking on an increasingly social aspect.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 9, 2011