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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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Informatica Unveils Next-Gen ETL Suite

Officials call it the most important release in company history. But don’t look for PowerCenter 8 this week….

Firstlogic’s Tough Sell

Firstlogic refreshes its IQ8 data quality suite with improved dashboarding and collaboration features, project monitoring and reporting capabilities.

Question and Answer: Straight Talk With Information Builders’ Straight Shooter

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.

Tableau Touts Its Data Visualization Chops

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.

Information Builders Touts Inroads Into SAP BW—and Beyond

IBI is more aggressively pushing its WebFOCUS suite and iWay connectivity adapters as a platform for enterprise-wide BI.

The Nuclear Nexus: Dashboards Connect Business Process Management and Business Intelligence

At $1.4 Billion, the business performance management (BPM) space is white hot. What’s that about dashboards?

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