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
For SME firms with limited IT know-how, Business Intelligence is an especially tough nut to crack. It's a nut BI players of every stripe desperately want to crack, however.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 7, 2007
Oracle this week announced its first rev of ODI, along with an updated version of the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search tool it announced a year ago.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 7, 2007
Call it a fashionably late, but nevertheless feature-complete arrival.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 31, 2007
If you haven’t yet heard of SaaS Business Intelligence startup Xactly, consider yourself duly informed.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 31, 2007
The revamped Business Intelligence Suite incorporates analytic technology from the former Siebel Systems Inc., which Oracle acquired 16 months ago.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 31, 2007
Not all industry watchers see genius in the deal, but those who do say Celequest gives Cognos some serious dashboard muscle.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 24, 2007