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
Starting salary growth in IT is poised to outpace all other job segments -- including legal and finance/accounting. Which positions are most in demand?
- By Steve Swoyer
- October 18, 2016
Enterprise customers are beginning to shift from IoT proofs of concept to "scalable" deployments that exploit IoT analytics.
- By Steve Swoyer
- October 14, 2016
A new research paper points to a growing "digital divide" between digital leaders and laggards, finding that digital leaders outperform digital laggards even among similar firms.
- By Steve Swoyer
- October 13, 2016
Marketing professor Andrew Stephen sees two primary problems with the way most companies handle social media analytics: a lack of data-driven assessment and social contagion.
- By Steve Swoyer
- October 12, 2016
When two companies merge, are their products or services different enough to justify separate existences? Researchers are using social media analytics to answer these types of questions.
- By Steve Swoyer
- October 11, 2016
The data warehouse still has a big part to play in the way companies develop, deliver, and consume analytics. Data scientist James Bird and his team built a forecasting application based on a mix of open source software and an existing data warehouse.
- By Steve Swoyer
- October 7, 2016