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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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Oracle Searches for Extra-Relational Data

Now that Oracle’s on board, all three market-leading database vendors have articulated enterprise search strategies.

Adios, Itanium: Applix Pushes 64-bit Business Intelligence for the Rest of Us

This week, Applix unveiled a Windows x64-ready version of its OLAP engine. Pre-release demand, officials claim, was through the roof.

Dashboard-Driven Analysis, Relational Online Analytical Processing-Style

It’s an in-database, in-memory ROLAP engine that—officials say—could be just the Rx for dashboard-driven analysis.

DataFlux Puts a Data Quality-Centric Spin on Customer Data Integration

Data quality specialist sees CDI as an evolutionary extension of bread-and-butter data management.

SQL Server 2005 Taking the Fight to the Business Intelligence Pure Plays

Some SQL Server shops already expect to replace BI pure play tools with SQL Server’s native BI functionality.

Oracle’s Action-Packed Fortnight

It was a busy fortnight for Oracle, which completed its acquisition of Siebel, shipped new releases of Application Server 10g and JDeveloper 10g, and announced two new acquisitions, to boot.

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