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
By 2012, fully 85 percent of organizations will be practicing advanced analytics thanks to several converging trends.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 4, 2009
The accord with HP is very similar to a partnership that SAP notched six months ago with Teradata. Its similarity raises questions.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 21, 2009
Sooner or later, data warehousing pros will have to come to terms with the remarkable staying power of the mainframe.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 21, 2009
IBM's rumored announcement of an "Exadata Killer" turned attention to Oracle's latest powerhouse. Why is there a surprising paucity of on-the-record information about what enterprises are using Exadata and how they're using it?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 14, 2009
Vendors competing in the fractious analytic database segment sure know how to keep things interesting
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 7, 2009