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
In an era of ever-expanding data volumes and heterogenous data-processing requirements, Vertica really shines, HP officials maintain.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 3, 2015
The old barriers keep breaking down, as Cisco demonstrates with its forthcoming Cisco Data Preparation product. The networking behemoth positions its foray into data prep as a complement to its more traditional data virtualization technology.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 3, 2015
Is the power of a seamless "multi-screen" BI experience coming to devices near you?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 27, 2015
The writing's on the wall: the application infrastructures of the not-so-distant future will be largely REST-ified. This means on-premises IT resources will be augmented by RESTful middleware to expose them to other (internal and external) REST services
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 22, 2015
IT can no longer expect to justify projects on the basis of their value to its own performance or operations. Instead, projects and spending initiatives must be yoked to business priorities.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 15, 2015
BI use cases and BI user constituencies have changed radically in just the last few years. Is that why BI adoption seems to be stuck?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 8, 2015