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.
All articles by Steve Swoyer
An independent Teradata will be a nimble competitor, Teradata officials argue -- nimble enough to give appliance competitors a run for the limelight.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 28, 2007
You’ve often thought it, but it took consultancy Gartner Inc. to confirm it: not every organization has a coherent business intelligence strategy.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 28, 2007
Data warehousing appliances again took center stage last week as IBM and Business Objects both made appliance-related announcements.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 21, 2007
Holy Paradox, Batman: why prominent BI and PM players say Oracle’s move is actually a good thing.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 21, 2007
Visual Mining and Tableau Software are established data viz specialists; both cite a hunger for analytics in the growing SMB CRM space.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 14, 2007
Oracle last week helped put to rest a few of the many questions raised by its $3.3 billion bid for Hyperion.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 14, 2007