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
The Teradata of today has an unconventional take on database appliances, in-database analytics, DW virtualization, and data quality, company officials claim.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 5, 2010
A new report from Forrester Research makes the case for BI agility. The bottom line: business intelligence can -- and must -- become more responsive.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 5, 2010
Thanks to its support for in-memory analysis, its efforts to develop its own OLAP front-end, and other initiatives, JasperSoft is poised to reap the benefits of a healthy (and growing) appetite for analytics, the company says.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- April 28, 2010
Several data integration players market all-in-one DI suites -- complete with ETL, DQ, and MDM -- but Talend does so at open source price points
- By Stephen Swoyer
- April 28, 2010
At a time when some in the industry have gone columnar crazy, Kognitio plans to stay true to what works in database technology.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- April 21, 2010
Some adopters seem disinclined to use BI technologies to assess the efficacy of their business intelligence and data warehousing practices.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- April 21, 2010