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
Teradata users have been cautiously optimistic all along, and as things come down to the wire, user optimism seems to be growing.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 11, 2007
Scaling complex BI deployments isn’t getting any easier, Cognos and Appfluent say.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 5, 2007
The BI Top Five is essentially unchanged from last year. In fact, the top four BI players seem to have dug themselves in for the long haul.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 5, 2007
What do Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP have going for them, and where do they need to improve if they’re to tackle the best-of-breeds?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 27, 2007
Don’t look now, but Office and Excel are shaping up as PerformancePoint Server’s biggest competition.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 27, 2007
So much for SAP not being willing to spend, at least at a pace with rival Oracle Corp., to acquire talent and technology.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 20, 2007