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.
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All articles by Steve Swoyer
Vodafone combined agile development, data warehouse automation, and flexible data modeling to transform its reporting-centric BI into next-gen analytics.
- By Steve Swoyer
- November 1, 2016
Traditional data integration isn't up to integrating data from non-traditional sources. Nor can it keep pace with self-serving users. Upstart vendor Bit Stew touts an "intelligent" approach to data integration to address a range of contemporary use cases.
- By Steve Swoyer
- October 31, 2016
For companies trying to balance the convenience of the cloud against on-premises performance advantages, Teradata Everywhere should be compelling.
- By Steve Swoyer
- October 28, 2016
The "Apache Spark Survey 2016," published last month, paints a promising picture of the Spark cluster computing platform's prospects.
- By Steve Swoyer
- October 27, 2016
Teradata announced several new features and product updates at its 2016 Partners Conference, including the new IntelliFlex system and a major overhaul of its vaunted database optimizer.
- By Steve Swoyer
- October 25, 2016
Data scientist Clement Fredembach used a combination of graph analytics and machine learning to predict the deaths of major characters in “Game of Thrones.” Of course, algorithms can only take you so far.
- By Steve Swoyer
- October 20, 2016