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
Now that Oracle’s on board, all three market-leading database vendors have articulated enterprise search strategies.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 8, 2006
This week, Applix unveiled a Windows x64-ready version of its OLAP engine. Pre-release demand, officials claim, was through the roof.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 8, 2006
It’s an in-database, in-memory ROLAP engine that—officials say—could be just the Rx for dashboard-driven analysis.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 1, 2006
Data quality specialist sees CDI as an evolutionary extension of bread-and-butter data management.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 1, 2006
Some SQL Server shops already expect to replace BI pure play tools with SQL Server’s native BI functionality.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 1, 2006
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.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 22, 2006