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
Predixion's goal was to develop a solution that makes data mining and predictive analytics consumable and usable by rank-and-file workers. Has it succeeded?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- April 3, 2012
Host Analytics says its cloud pedigree gives it advantages relative to its on-premises competitors in corporate performance management.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- April 3, 2012
Microsoft bids "adios" to OLE-DB.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 27, 2012
Thanks to a combination of social, mobility, cloud, Big Data, and other forces, business intelligence and data warehousing are on the cusp of profound transformations. The question is: which way are these technologies headed?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 27, 2012
A decade ago, using spreadsheets to manage ETL source mappings might've made sense. Today, an upstart BI vendor claims, it isn't just inelegant -- it's anachronistic.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 27, 2012
For a company that's best known as a provider of back-end plumbing, Tibco's tibbr and Spotfire solutions comprise a very visible public face.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 20, 2012