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
Keep your friends close and your partners closer, as it were.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 20, 2007
What qualities help separate best-of-breed data visualization offerings from their general purpose competitors?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 13, 2007
BI-er beware: having a dashboard isn’t the same thing as having data visualization technology, much less a data visualization strategy.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 13, 2007
Business Objects—the industry’s Accidental Data Integration vendor—continues to flex its muscles.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 6, 2007
The bottom line: companies need to figure out a "right time" window that’s right for them.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 30, 2007
At bottom, real-time is a data integration problem: it involves getting fresh data to business users as rapidly as possible.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 30, 2007