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
Oracle, IBM, and SAP sit atop the performance management heap, but several best-of-breed players are doing their best to keep things interesting
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 16, 2008
IBM pushes ECM as a complement to bread-and-butter data warehousing
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 9, 2008
In 2007, the large, independent, publicly-traded, best-of-breed BI and PM player all but ceased to exist.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 19, 2007
The eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) standard is gaining solid support, momentum
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 12, 2007
Oracle announces BI and performance enhancements and folds Essbase into its BI Foundation—but what about Hyperion’s other BI assets?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 12, 2007
Are privately-held BI players safer bets than their publicly-traded counterparts?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 5, 2007