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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                    Some customers still haven’t deployed SQL Server 2005 in production environments. Their rationale? There’s a heckuva lot to digest
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - November 1, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Some BI market watchers think the Sunopsis buy could spell the beginning of the end for Oracle’s Warehouse Builder.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - October 25, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Software-as-a-Service isn’t just a fad. If market watcher Gartner is to be believed, it’s a full-bore paradigm shift
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - October 25, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    IBM says its Information Server slices, dices, and delivers data of all kinds, from almost any source, and in almost any conceivable format.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - October 25, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Advizor officials says Analyst Office isn’t a preemptive strike against Microsoft in the Office BI segment.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - October 18, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Old patent infringement lawsuits don’t die, they just sort of fritter away....
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - October 18, 2006