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
Is OWB R2—which Oracle bills as a “completely free” core ETL tool—really that?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 9, 2006
The content management specialist last week agreed to be acquired—for the second time this year, in fact—by an admiring suitor.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 9, 2006
The next wave of business intelligence will once and for all take BI mainstream, with query and analysis front-ends on every desktop.
- By Stephen Swoyer, Eric Kavanagh
- August 9, 2006
Don’t look now, IDC’s Dan Vesset cautions, but Microsoft has the potential to radically reshape the BI landscape.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 2, 2006
Organizers say JasperForge.org is the start of something big—but users grouse that the transition from the Sourceforge nest hasn’t been without a hiccup or two.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 2, 2006
Before customers can adequately take stock of BO’s EIM push, it must deliver next-gen versions of its ETL and EII tools.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 2, 2006