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
Lyza runs completely on the desktop, so there's no administration and minimal IT overhead. The result, officials claim, is an empowered user class.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 24, 2008
Netezza's new geospatial facility promises to let customers roll out location-aware applications at a "fraction of the cost" of general-purpose RDBMS
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 17, 2008
Infobright shipped its BrightHouse open source data warehouse and announced an investment from Sun Microsystems
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 17, 2008
TM1 isn't going anywhere, IBM Cognos maintains -- even if Big Blue hasn't yet ruled out changing its brand.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 10, 2008
The data integration suites of today are fast, flexible, and -- in spite of their venerable ETL roots -- far from legacy holdovers, proponents argue
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 10, 2008
Greenplum cozied up to Hadoop earlier this year -- but the MapReduce capability it announced last week is its own. What happened?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 3, 2008