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
Vodafone combined agile development, data warehouse automation, and flexible data modeling to transform its reporting-centric BI into next-gen analytics.
- By Steve Swoyer
- November 1, 2016
Traditional data integration isn't up to integrating data from non-traditional sources. Nor can it keep pace with self-serving users. Upstart vendor Bit Stew touts an "intelligent" approach to data integration to address a range of contemporary use cases.
- By Steve Swoyer
- October 31, 2016
For companies trying to balance the convenience of the cloud against on-premises performance advantages, Teradata Everywhere should be compelling.
- By Steve Swoyer
- October 28, 2016
The "Apache Spark Survey 2016," published last month, paints a promising picture of the Spark cluster computing platform's prospects.
- By Steve Swoyer
- October 27, 2016
Teradata announced several new features and product updates at its 2016 Partners Conference, including the new IntelliFlex system and a major overhaul of its vaunted database optimizer.
- By Steve Swoyer
- October 25, 2016
Data scientist Clement Fredembach used a combination of graph analytics and machine learning to predict the deaths of major characters in “Game of Thrones.” Of course, algorithms can only take you so far.
- By Steve Swoyer
- October 20, 2016