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
Industry watchers once scribbled epitaphs for pure-play competitor Informatica. A funny thing happened, however: Informatica has thrived.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 3, 2007
What's the big to-do about an XML-optimized EII platform? Plenty, says Ipedo
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 3, 2007
Wouldn’t it be great if there were an open, extensible business reporting language? The good news is that such a standard already exists. Sort of.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 3, 2007
SaaS and other new-fangled application deployment paradigms came to the fore in 2006, even as the fat client BI suite of old came into its own.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 27, 2006
IT players will accelerate their adoption of new business models and technologies—anything, it seems, to buck the slow-and-steady spending trend.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 20, 2006
With the acquisition last week of a prominent BI-focused services firm, HP finally seems ready to take its place in the business intelligence power pantheon.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 20, 2006