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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All articles by Steve Swoyer
We've been treating wearable BI as a someday-maybe thing rather than a soon and inevitable reality, but the wearable revolution is upon us.
- By Steve Swoyer
- July 26, 2016
Social media analytics is an incredibly powerful tool for marketing. Believing that is easy. Making good on it is something else entirely.
- By Steve Swoyer
- July 14, 2016
The wait is over: Tableau for Android is here. Tableau has delivered a native app optimized for Google's Android mobile operating system.
- By Steve Swoyer
- July 13, 2016
More than half of organizations aren't getting much -- if any -- value from their investments in big data-related technologies. The good news is that most of them believe this will change.
- By Steve Swoyer
- July 11, 2016
IBI might not be the first vendor you'd associate with self-service; it's a 40-year-old company, after all. Surprisingly, self-service isn't anything new for the folks at Information Builders.
- By Steve Swoyer
- July 8, 2016
If any workload can make the most out of lots of processing power and RAM, it's SAP's HANA, an in-memory database. Will HANA's performance characteristics translate to a cloud VM?
- By Steve Swoyer
- July 7, 2016