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
Actuate 9 is a pivotal release for a company that continues to plot a best-of-breed course in a rapidly consolidating BI marketscape.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 12, 2006
Cognos is no stranger to professional services, having collaborated with an ecosystem of partners for some time, but last week’s announcements marked its most ambitious foray into the services game yet. Some analysts say Cognos’ move has the makings of a proverbial double-edged sword.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 12, 2006
Last month, Celequest notched a deal with NEC to develop a compliance appliance for the financial services industry.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 12, 2006
Some folks tout an intriguing, if esoteric, use case for EII: as a tool to help prototype the design or expansion of a data warehouse.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 5, 2006
Business intelligence practices—and the data management groups charged with overseeing them—are by no means independent of the enterprise IT main.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 5, 2006
Microsoft’s push into business intelligence (BI) client tools is primed for success, say users, largely because SQL Server 2005 gets just about everything right.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 5, 2006