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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                    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
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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