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
NPS R4 enhances query performance on existing NPS hardware—at no additional cost, Netezza officials claim
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 5, 2007
Contrary to claims and predictions, the amount and growth of unstructured data may be vastly overstated.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 5, 2007
Can search deliver on the promise of ubiquitous BI? Maybe. As with any highly hyped technology, however, a few myths first need to be busted.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 29, 2007
Data modeling, that once sleepy demesne of data warehouse architects and hot-shot business intelligence (BI) analysts, has become quite popular.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 29, 2007
In addition to customer data, companies want to bring arrant product and financial data to heel, too. Call it a data-quality-work-in-progress.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 15, 2007
IBM tapped SaaS specialist Razorsight to help it transition to a mostly paperless infrastructure and deal with the paper remnants it just couldn’t eradicate.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 15, 2007