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
Officials call it the most important release in company history. But don’t look for PowerCenter 8 this week….
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 2, 2005
Firstlogic refreshes its IQ8 data quality suite with improved dashboarding and collaboration features, project monitoring and reporting capabilities.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 26, 2005
Information Builders CEO Gerry Cohen doesn’t mince words, and as our own Stephen Swoyer found it, the New York-based software player has a few cards up its sleeve.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 26, 2005
Tableau probably isn’t the first name that comes to mind when you think of data visualization software. Tableau on Monday announced version 1.5 of its data viz suite, touting usability and connectivity improvements—such as out-of-the-box support for Microsoft’s SQL Server 2005 database.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 19, 2005
IBI is more aggressively pushing its WebFOCUS suite and iWay connectivity adapters as a platform for enterprise-wide BI.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 19, 2005
At $1.4 Billion, the business performance management (BPM) space is white hot. What’s that about dashboards?
- By Eric Kavanagh
- October 19, 2005