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
Sure, Business Objects hopes to take some wind out of the sails of Hyperion’s System 9 release—but there’s more to XI R2 than meets the eye
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 12, 2005
Oracle could leverage its acquired analytic and performance management capabilities to become a formidable business intelligence power
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 5, 2005
Expertise in BI doesn’t automatically translate into job security, practitioners say—although it certainly doesn’t hurt.
- By Stephen Swoyer, Dave Wells
- October 5, 2005
With slightly more than a month to go until launch, it looks as if SQL Server 2005 is finally a done deal—and that’s a big deal for BI pros.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 28, 2005
PerkinElmer tapped a BI solution from Business Objects SA to consolidate its disparate BI holdings
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 28, 2005
In the wake of Oracle’s stunning Siebel gambit, is there a future for a Teradata-friendly Siebel Analytics suite? Teradata officials say so.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 28, 2005