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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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Consolidation Continues: TIBCO Nabs Spotfire

Does TIBCO’s acquisition of visualization specialist Spotfire Inc. portend a coming round of consolidations in the data viz space?

Cognos Makes Peace with Excel

C8 BI Analysis for Excel isn’t some gussied-up version of your business-analyst-power-user mentor’s Excel import and export capability, officials promise.

The Dashboard Reloaded: Tableau Touts Version 3 point 0 Release

Tableau 3.0 delivers a host of niceties, including support for rich formatting, free-form annotations, and—chiefly—a new Dynamic Dashboards component.

A PM Primer The Analyst View

Just how similar are BI and PM? How do they complement one another, and how do they differ? The issue might not be as complicated as it looks….

As PM Evolves: Attack of the Big Spenders

Microsoft officials say PerformancePoint will help take performance management mainstream. So do many of the company’s competitors.

A Performance Management Primer What Vendors Say

It seems every vendor has its own pet take on how BI and PM relate

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