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
Based on the experiences of several users, BIRT looks like a good start—which should only get better
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 15, 2005
Technology is seen as a potential boon to Oracle’s Fusion Middleware initiative
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 15, 2005
With Dynamic ODS, DataMirror hopes to break out from its association with AS/400 in the minds of customers
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 8, 2005
Forget ETL: metaController enables a new kind of integration, which Traverse officials describe as “process orchestration”
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 8, 2005
BIRT is enabled in part by technology expertise from reporting stalwart Actuate, which released a branded version of the tool
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 8, 2005
XML and Web services make SQL Server a more interoperable player for BI; both are seen as mixed blessings by IT pros, too.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 1, 2005