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
Project Unity is an ambitious -- and especially fraught -- enterprise for SAS and its DataFlux subsidiary.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 19, 2008
Thanks to demand for cutting-edge features such as sentiment extraction, text analytic technology is primed for growth.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 12, 2008
Industry experts identify the pratfalls which can sink even the most solid BI project
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 27, 2008
Information Builders bills InfoAssist as a do-it-yourself or "guided" ad hoc query tool for novice and power users alike
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 22, 2008
At its Partners user conference, Teradata announced a new appliance model, showcased the next rev of its database, and hinted at a future SSD appliance
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 22, 2008
Neither parallelism (ala Oracle) nor parallelism (ala Microsoft) is classically parallel, or massively parallel (like Teradata, Netezza, and others)
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 15, 2008