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
You can lead someone to the big data lake, but you can't make them take the plunge.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 30, 2014
The future will be streamed-and-analyzed -- at (or close to) real time.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 23, 2014
Industry luminaries Claudia Imhoff and Harriet Fryman peer into the future of analytics.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 16, 2014
Even if you can't teach innovation, per se, you can teach the practices and methods that creative, problem-solving people can employ to cultivate it.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 26, 2014
Is the data vault one of the better kept secrets in business intelligence? Agile plus the data vault may be a match made in heaven.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 5, 2014
Big data analytics should be a slam dunk for utility companies, which manage networks of devices that continuously generate streams of data. A new report from IDC reveals that utilities are uncertain about what they're doing or why they're doing it.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 5, 2014