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
An emerging trend -- "on-demand" ETL -- augurs a big shift in the way analysis and BI are performed and results disseminated.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- April 2, 2013
BI is increasingly taking on the metaphor of the scientific method: a model in which hypotheses can be tested and proven.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 26, 2013
After half a decade, Hadoop remains a divisive technology. Some data managers think Hadoop has the potential to be hugely transformative; others see it as a more pedestrian proposition.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 19, 2013
EMC Corp. arguably stole the show at last month's Strata 2013 conference, announcing the equivalent of a SQL-compliant, high-performance RDBMS running on top of Hadoop: Pivotal HD.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 12, 2013
An unprecedented number of vendors unveiled new products at last month's TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 5, 2013
This year’s projected 7 percent growth rate for BI and analytics software is good -- but hardly spectacular, given that BI software sales grew 16 percent in 2011. What’s dragging down the market?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 5, 2013