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
Just because IBM went out and bought itself a best-of-breed BI player doesn’t mean it can’t and won’t partner with other BI competitors
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 5, 2007
Oracle, SAP, and IBM will soon find themselves up to their respective ears in acquisition-related integration issues, BI pure play stalwarts argue
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 28, 2007
Teradata, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft dominate the data warehousing high-end, but a host of upstart and veteran players are keeping things interesting
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 28, 2007
Business Objects also revealed details about a forthcoming SAP/Business Objects integration road map, slated for early Q1 of next year
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 21, 2007
ParAccel’s analytic database can be used on its own or dropped right into place alongside your existing SQL Server assets.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 14, 2007
IBM’s bid marks the third acquisition this year of a prominent BI and PM pure-play vendor.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 12, 2007