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
In many shops, the dream of unified information access remains elusive. An industry expert offers well-honed tips.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- April 29, 2009
Very large data warehouse vendor Compact Solutions will soon release an ETL testing and design tool that works across many environments.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- April 29, 2009
Does IBM's new business analytic services offering address a pressing market need or is it a technology and services solution in search of a market?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- April 22, 2009
Why does designing a scalable, available, and resilient data warehouse sometimes seem like more art than science?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- April 22, 2009
Although an enterprise scope is still seen as the Holy Grail of data warehousing, departmental and even enterprise data marts are now countenanced as well.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- April 15, 2009
In the current climate, the value proposition of open source software is attractive -- maybe irresistible. Product enhancements from Pentaho and JasperSoft help explain why.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- April 8, 2009