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
When it debuts, Mendocino will more tightly couple Office with SAP. But don’t look for it before this summer.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 4, 2006
The revamped i/Lytics is a solid release on the whole—but analysts say Innovative shouldn’t rest on its laurels.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 21, 2005
MySQL gives Business Objects a cost-effective alternative to IBM, Microsoft, and others. This isn’t an unalloyed good, however.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 21, 2005
BIRT and Crystal aren’t the only game in town. There’s also JReport, which—in its new version 7.2 release—incorporates a bevy of improvements.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 14, 2005
Teradata, Netezza, and DATAllegro take aim at one another.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 14, 2005
As customers finish up with their Cognos 8 implementations, the company’s holistic performance management pitch might look even more appealing.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 14, 2005