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
Two companies take a different approach to building the better-than-data warehouse data warehouse.
- By Steve Swoyer
- March 9, 2016
Almost two years on, it looks as if Spark SQL, the SQL interpreter for the red-hot Spark cluster computing framework, is shaping up to be a query-processing powerhouse.
- By Steve Swoyer
- March 8, 2016
There's still plenty of value to be had in conventional business intelligence and analytical technologies. How compelling? How about $10-million-in-new-sales compelling?
- By Steve Swoyer
- February 29, 2016
The customer journey really is coming back, argues industry luminary Jill Dyché, chiefly because competition for customers in the digital marketplace is insanely competitive.
- By Steve Swoyer
- February 29, 2016
By 2018, Gartner projects that advanced analytics will underpin the competitive efforts of more than half of all large organizations.
- By Steve Swoyer
- February 26, 2016
Users of Microsoft Corp.'s PowerBI visual discovery software can breathe a deep sigh of relief. At long last, they'll be able to view reports on their mobile devices.
- By Steve Swoyer
- February 26, 2016