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
Demand for traditional end-user query, reporting, and analysis technologies outpaces demand for advanced analytic technologies. And the gap is growing.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 2, 2011
Business intelligence in small and midsize enterprise shops is an anecdotally tough nut to crack. A new report claims to offer up a nutcracker of sorts.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 26, 2011
Company says the OLAP status quo has got to go.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 19, 2011
Streamline BI admin costs to save money, but don’t forget to keep the pressure on your software vendors, too.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 13, 2011
What's it take to be a Microsoft-centric BI player? It may be a matter of picking up where Redmond leaves off.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 6, 2011
A pair of recent announcements offers fresh -- and refreshing -- insight into the new Vertica four months after its acquisition by HP.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 6, 2011