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
Making the most of the 80 percent of data stored as text is the job of this increasing popular technology.
- By James E. Powell
- September 29, 2010
Users are yearning for more analytic responsibility
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 29, 2010
Hard BI benefits -- such as reductions in costs or in employee headcounts -- remain frustratingly elusive, according to a new survey.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 22, 2010
A new report delves into the importance, use, and management of metadata and how it's become a critical component for your enterprise.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 22, 2010
IBM’s $1.7 billion acquisition of Netezza is the second major DW-related acquisition this year, following EMC’s purchase of analytic database specialist Greenplum this summer. Netezza effectively inaugurated the DW appliance segment: forming in 2001, launching in 2003, going public in 2007, and turning a profit in 2008. Other players came first; it took Netezza to invent the category.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 20, 2010
Traditional analytic best practices are slowly being supplanted by what might be called the analytics of the particular.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 15, 2010