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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                    It’s a big win for Informatica and an important milestone in the SaaS-ification of its data integration stack.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - July 26, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Oracle positions OWB R2 as a full-blown competitor to enterprise ETL solutions from IBM, Informatica, and SAS Institute.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - July 26, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Pure players Spotfire and Tableau have quite a head start on what Microsoft and others currently bring to the table visualization-wise.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - July 26, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Ipedo last week announced a refresh of its EII suite that’s tweaked for service-ability, officials say.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - July 19, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Business Objects hopes to do for data visualization what the former Crystal Decisions once did for reporting: make it ubiquitous.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - July 19, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    When users speak, says Office BI guru Alex Payne, Microsoft listens.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - July 19, 2006