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
With its new FPM offering, Actuate is competing more aggressively against performance-management specialists such as Cognos and Hyperion
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 16, 2005
Warehouse 8.0 means that Teradata is still the vendor to beat in the high-end data warehousing space.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 16, 2005
BI suite boasts improved support for heterogeneous data sources, new data mining capabilities, and integration with SAP BW
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 9, 2005
Informatica CEO Sohaib Abbasi charts a pragmatic course when talking about his company’s vendor partners—but pulls no punches on the subject of ETL competitors
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 9, 2005
Designed for mid-market customers, Crystal Reports Server XI offers a subset of the capabilities of the BusinessObjects XI suite
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 9, 2005
Business intelligence vendors must make their software more affordable—and provide better service once it’s been sold
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 2, 2005