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
Exadata V2 seems tailor-made for big Oracle shops and C-level executives.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 2, 2009
Many shops are still sitting tight on aging -- and potentially obsolete -- MDM implementations, at their peril.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 19, 2009
Is MapReduce ready for the mainstream, or is it best used in niche environments?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 18, 2009
Only Teradata does ADW, officials say, and ADW isn't just marketing-speak.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 10, 2009
With new appliance configurations and an "advanced analytics" push on tap, Netezza seems positively ebullient. A mention from Oracle didn't hurt.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 10, 2009
By 2012, fully 85 percent of organizations will be practicing advanced analytics thanks to several converging trends.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 4, 2009