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
BIRT, Mondrian, and Pentaho headline the list of scrappy open source BI newcomers.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 15, 2006
From the moment it said “I do” to last year’s buyout proposal by Pitney Bowes, Firstlogic’s cards were on the table.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 15, 2006
Even an integration jack-of-all-trades can use a new service-enabled trick or two.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 8, 2006
With 64-bit hardware increasingly pervasive and 64-bit operating systems priced to move, too, it’s only a matter of time, isn’t it?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 8, 2006
It shouldn't surprise anyone that software vendors overwhelmingly have self-serving takes on the state of BI today.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 8, 2006
With the acquisition last week of data quality specialist Similarity Systems, Informatica bucked the expectations of several industry watchers.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 1, 2006