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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                    Is OWB R2—which Oracle bills as a “completely free” core ETL tool—really that?
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - August 9, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The content management specialist last week agreed to be acquired—for the second time this year, in fact—by an admiring suitor.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - August 9, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The next wave of business intelligence will once and for all take BI mainstream, with query and analysis front-ends on every desktop.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer, Eric  Kavanagh
 - August 9, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Don’t look now, IDC’s Dan Vesset cautions, but Microsoft has the potential to radically reshape the BI landscape.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - August 2, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Organizers say JasperForge.org is the start of something big—but users grouse that the transition from the Sourceforge nest hasn’t been without a hiccup or two.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - August 2, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Before customers can adequately take stock of BO’s EIM push, it must deliver next-gen versions of its ETL and EII tools.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - August 2, 2006