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.
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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                    Keep your friends close and your partners closer, as it were.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- June 20, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    What qualities help separate best-of-breed data visualization offerings from their general purpose competitors?
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- June 13, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    BI-er beware: having a dashboard isn’t the same thing as having data visualization technology, much less a data visualization strategy.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- June 13, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Business Objects—the industry’s Accidental Data Integration vendor—continues to flex its muscles.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- June 6, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The bottom line: companies need to figure out a "right time" window that’s right for them.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- May 30, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    At bottom, real-time is a data integration problem: it involves getting fresh data to business users as rapidly as possible.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- May 30, 2007