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 the rise of right-time BI and the advent of a culture of what might be called mass (data) consumption, replication is more important than ever, as a new update from Sybase attests.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 27, 2009
DW vendors are as busy as bees
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 27, 2009
Real-world BI usage typically hovers at around 8 percent of all users in an organization -- with just over 11 percent in extremely aggressive BI shops -- a figure much lower than BI vendors would have you believe.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 20, 2009
Microsoft hit the road last month to talk up PerforrmancePoint, Gemini, and other aspects of Microsoft BI -- and to promise a solution to Microsoft's missing metadata management strategy
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 13, 2009
Should organizations step up their efforts to rationalize their collection of DI tools? Yes, Gartner researchers say, but not for the reasons you might think.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 6, 2009
Last week's Teradata-SAP partnership will benefit joint customers and possibly create additional sales opportunities for Teradata.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 6, 2009