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
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