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
IBM’s acquisition of Cognos was explained in greater detail last week; we explore the impact for BI practitioners
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 13, 2008
Data modeling, proponents say, can help insulate an organization against change. Sounds good -- but is it true?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 6, 2008
With text analytics poised for growth -- especially as a means to parse and index unstructured data -- it's a propitious time for SPSS
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 6, 2008
Datupia's Foster Hinshaw discusses the rapidly evolving state of the data warehousing market and the benefits and drawbacks of the appliance model
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 30, 2008
Will MySQL transform Sun into a BI and DW force to be reckoned with?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 23, 2008
IBM's acquisition of Cognos may not change much in the short term, but will it dampen user enthusiasm for the new Cognos 8.3 release?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 16, 2008