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
If shops don't figure out how to accelerate their cumbersome data warehousing projects, their information consumers will pass them by.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 15, 2010
The cloud will reduce the cost of delivering simple, powerful business intelligence so organizations can finally enjoy pervasive BI.
Could Oracle's Exadata V2 enable a new -- and altogether more ambitious -- approach to enterprise performance management?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 21, 2010
The draw of the open source R statistics environment, according to vendors, is cost -- it's simply cheaper than premium offerings.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 7, 2010
With the recent announcement of three dozen new SQL-MapReduce functions, Aster Data's message is clear: MapReduce is a boon to analytics.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 7, 2010
Informatica Marketplace is similar to Salesforce.com's AppExchange (or Apple's App Store) -- but many unique aspects set it clearly apart.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 30, 2010