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
Text analytics is more than just sentiment analysis. Text analytics is being used to enable churn analysis, fraud detection, risk analysis, warranty analysis, medical research, and other non-traditional use cases.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 22, 2013
SnapLogic says its REST-based approach to data movement is a superior alternative to tools such as ETL for data integration in hybrid on- and off-premises environments.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 8, 2013
A new TDWI report assesses operational intelligence in terms of its applications, its potential benefits, its people, process, and technology requirements, and its challenges.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 8, 2013
A recent report from TDWI Research makes the case for a new kind of EDW -- the "extended data warehouse" environment. Think of it as the EDW-e.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 1, 2013
Information Builders makes use of key open source search technologies -- namely, Lucene and Solr -- to power its own search offering, WebFOCUS Magnify.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 17, 2013
Big Data, meet Hyper Density. A real-life use case illustrates what multiprocessor parallelism at a massive scale might mean for information processing and analysis.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 10, 2013