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
What is Wherescape 3D and why is it free? One industry watcher say it's unlike anything he's aware of in the market.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 4, 2011
Kognitio says it has two things going for it as it prepares to tackle Wall Street: a next-gen spin on OLAP and WX2, its Big Data, in-memory DBMS.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 20, 2011
If a single, combined platform for transaction processing and analytics is a bad idea, isn't it likewise a bad idea to champion a single DW platform for the wild profusion of analytic workloads? Netezza, an IBM Company, thinks so.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 20, 2011
There's a lot of excitement in the BI space in spite of all of the megavendor consolidation. We examine three new offerings.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 23, 2011
With its forthcoming Teradata v14 release, Teradata is going columnar, and that's just for starters.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 16, 2011
Two business intelligence vendors are taking on an increasingly social aspect.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 9, 2011