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
Machine-generated data poses big challenges that can make it difficult for any relational competitor to be dominant.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 23, 2012
Quest hopes to tap the Toad brand -- and Toad's popularity in IT departments -- to help it push its way into enterprise BI.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 23, 2012
SAP outlines an "Applied Analytics" push that will have it competing with SAS and other powerhouses in the market for industry-specific analytic applications.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 16, 2012
Most businesses are still getting their business intelligence houses in order, focusing on dashboards, self-service, and other priorities. They aren't yet ready for big data.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 9, 2012
Which is the best discovery platform? According to several prominent analytic database vendors, it doesn't matter. You're asking the wrong question.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 8, 2012
Forget tools, forget systems, forget architectures. Forget data itself. What's needed is a radically new information ecosystem.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 25, 2012