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
SP1 delivers a graphical metadata development tool, support for VBA, and a new scripting language
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 14, 2005
First PeopleSoft, now Siebel Systems: Oracle Corp.’s appetite for large-scale acquisitions seems insatiable. Larry Ellison’s company can now trumpet the availability of best-in-breed database, human resources (HR), customer relationship management (CRM), and analytic software. What does it all mean?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 14, 2005
If early feedback from analysts and users is any indication, Cognos appears to have a winner in its Series 8 BI Suite
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 14, 2005
Acquisition of Firstlogic takes one of the few remaining independent data quality players off the market
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 7, 2005
Ever since introducing its debut data warehousing appliance in March, DATAllegro has competed aggressively against appliance pioneer Netezza
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 7, 2005
If IBM’s new Linux-powered bundles look and sound like data warehousing appliances, are they, in fact, data warehousing appliances?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 31, 2005