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
With a flurry of recent BI-oriented partnerships, it's no surprise Cloudera is attracting so much interest.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 16, 2011
Data Integration leaders are under pressure from "good enough" competitors. This gives non-dominant players a golden opportunity to contest the status quo.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 16, 2011
Why data visualization is increasingly perceived by stakeholders at all levels of the enterprise as a high-value investment.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 2, 2011
The usual Powers That Be -- i.e., IBM Corp., Oracle Corp., SAP AG, and SAS Institute Inc. -- continue to lead the BI market, but they're no longer alone.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 19, 2011
It's that time of year again. Every December, we look back at the year just past, highlight some of its most intriguing trends, and hazard a few guesses about what the New Year will have in store.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 15, 2010
With a reloaded MPP engine on deck in SQL Server Denali -- and a promised columnar option -- Microsoft could still make a high-end DW splash, but it will have to move quickly.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 15, 2010