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
Data warehousing firms aren't worried about the rising competition from Oracle, Microsoft, HP, and others.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 15, 2008
Neutrality in partnerships takes center stage in HP’s data warehousing push
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 8, 2008
Microsoft touts an in-memory, column-based Excel data store on every desktop
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 6, 2008
Birst targets the important (but small) projects that are ill-served by existing BI tools, its developers argue
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 1, 2008
The Oracle/HP Database Machine is notable for being as ambiguous as it is ambitious. No one seems to know just how much it costs; which options it includes (or requires); or how much storage it encompasses.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 1, 2008
The revamped Metadata Management XI could be a boon to bilateral integration between SAP and Business Objects environments.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 24, 2008