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
This year, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP dropped all pretense and started talking candidly about their ambitions in the BI space.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 20, 2006
SAP is no slouch in the analytics department—as its surging growth in IDC’s recent business analytic market surveys demonstrates.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 13, 2006
If new research from Gartner Inc. is any indication, 2006 was a heady year for most performance management (PM) players.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 13, 2006
pureXML extends DB2 9’s ability to store, update, delete, query, and index well-formed XML, officials say.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 13, 2006
Oracle is tops in the overall data warehousing market, but Microsoft has officially arrived as a data warehousing superstar.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 6, 2006
The BI acquisition-go-around continued apace last week, as both Informatica and Business Objects acquired smaller vendors
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 6, 2006