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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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Traverse metaController: When Extract Transform and Load Is Overkill

Forget ETL: metaController enables a new kind of integration, which Traverse officials describe as “process orchestration”

Eclipse Foundation Releases Business Intelligence Reporting Tool for Java

BIRT is enabled in part by technology expertise from reporting stalwart Actuate, which released a branded version of the tool

XML and Web Services Go Native in SQL Server 2005

XML and Web services make SQL Server a more interoperable player for BI; both are seen as mixed blessings by IT pros, too.

Salesforce.com on a Roll

CRM kingpin Siebel continues to struggle even as scrappy newcomer Salesforce.com enjoys surprising success.

Business Intelligence Drives Relational Data Base Management System Market Growth

Gartner’s most recent RDBMS market share figures amount to a vindication of sorts for the business intelligence industry; Teradata’s revenues surge by more than 17 percent

Predictive Modeling Mark-up Language : Data Mining for the Masses?

PMML recasts the data warehouse as a turnkey platform for real-time data mining.

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