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
The revamped DWE 9.1 does little to address Big Blue’s MOLAP value proposition, which has been MIA since last summer.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 22, 2006
Enterprise search is a market Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM—along with most business intelligence pure plays—can ill afford to ignore.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 22, 2006
The week that was in business intelligence.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 15, 2006
Thanks to five years and more of gestation, many of the business intelligence (BI) facilities Microsoft ships with SQL Server 2005 bear only a facile resemblance to their predecessors. We spoke with SQL pros about the good, the bad, and the lovely qualities of Redmond’s next-gen BI stack.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 15, 2006
Can the open-source BI Reporting Tool (BIRT, for short) displace more powerful—and costly – third-party offerings?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 15, 2006
Business intelligence powerhouses Hyperion and Teradata last week announced a combined retail analytics solution.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 8, 2006