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 SQL Server 2005—even with significantly improved OLAP, ETL, and reporting features—worth the cost?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 2, 2005
The Web analytics market is growing at a healthy 30 percent year-over-year clip
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 2, 2005
One in four companies will purchase and deploy a dashboard solution in 2005
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 23, 2005
Announcement of a delay with version 2 rankles some users, but most are taking it in stride
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 23, 2005
For a company that has sometimes seemed to lack direction, Informatica is back on track
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 23, 2005
Readers report: MicroStrategy has done a very good job supporting existing customers with point upgrades and other enhancements
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 16, 2005