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
Unlike QlikView, Qlik Sense is designed to cater to analysts, power users, and to other information consumers who want an interactive visual discovery experience.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 18, 2014
For too long, data management and application development have been tracking on two radically different vectors, each with its own distinctive momentum. That must change.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 18, 2014
A new MPP query engine called Bright Vine has what it claims is a can't-miss pitch.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 11, 2014
Does IBM's new Watson Analytics offering herald the advent of a new class of quasi-intelligent machines capable of beating the best of human analysts at their own game?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 4, 2014
SAS Visual Statistics is designed to make the statistically fluent even more productive. Crucially, this is a class that includes business analysts, power users, and other non-traditional "statisticians."
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 14, 2014
Agile isn't a methodology or a toolset or even a state of mind, Forrester's report argues. If anything, it's a platform play -- just don't call it an enterprise BI platform play.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 7, 2014