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.
All articles by Steve Swoyer
Not such an about face for the ROLAP specialist.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 25, 2006
Clementine has been used as a complement to CRM for half a decade now—but SPSS recently taught it a range of new tricks.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 18, 2006
Drums keep pounding rhythm to the brain—and the data quality beat keeps on keeping on. Case in point: Trillium Software last week announced a new version of its TS Discovery 5.0 data profiling tool. Analysts are calling it Trillium’s strongest profiling offering to date.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 11, 2006
Are BI vendors on a collision course with the relational database giants? Industry watchers aren’t sure—but some say the uneasy détente is unlikely to last.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 11, 2006
SAS, SPSS, and others say they’re making the Gandalf-the-White world of data mining more accessible— call it data mining for the masses.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 11, 2006
It’s tempting to think of data quality as a soon-and-inevitably-to-be-commoditized technology segment. But think again.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 4, 2006