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
Organizations must recognize when an overly restrictive governance regimen is an impediment to innovation -- particularly to innovation that has the potential to accelerate business intelligence or analytical development.
- By Steve Swoyer
- March 18, 2016
Several start-ups market products designed to address the lack of data management features for big data platforms. For example, Diyotta provides a scalable architecture for big data integration including old-world enterprise amenities such as metadata management.
- By Steve Swoyer
- March 18, 2016
Some claim business intelligence has had its day. Not according to Gartner.
- By Steve Swoyer
- March 16, 2016
SAS, IBM, KNIME, RapidMiner, and Microsoft posted strong showings in Gartner’s February 2016 Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms report, though Microsoft fell short of market leadership.
- By Steve Swoyer
- March 15, 2016
Organizations have embraced analytics with gusto. They've cleared away a good bit of the low-hanging fruit, but what's higher up on the tree is going to be much more difficult to get.
- By Steve Swoyer
- March 14, 2016
The outlook for general-purpose IT spending is mixed and uncertain. One thing that isn't mixed or uncertain, however, is demand for analytical products and services.
- By Steve Swoyer
- March 11, 2016