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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.

  


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With Project Unity, SAS and DataFlux Walk a Fine Line

Project Unity is an ambitious -- and especially fraught -- enterprise for SAS and its DataFlux subsidiary.

Search and Text Analysis Lead BI Push

Thanks to demand for cutting-edge features such as sentiment extraction, text analytic technology is primed for growth.

How to Avoid the Common Traps in Business Intelligence Implementations

Industry experts identify the pratfalls which can sink even the most solid BI project

Guided Ad Hoc Query Tool for Business Users Takes Load Off Developers

Information Builders bills InfoAssist as a do-it-yourself or "guided" ad hoc query tool for novice and power users alike

Teradata Unveils Appliance, Data Warehouse Array Technology

At its Partners user conference, Teradata announced a new appliance model, showcased the next rev of its database, and hinted at a future SSD appliance

Up Close: Speed, Parallel Processing, and Massivly Parallel Processing

Neither parallelism (ala Oracle) nor parallelism (ala Microsoft) is classically parallel, or massively parallel (like Teradata, Netezza, and others)

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