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
Forget ETL: metaController enables a new kind of integration, which Traverse officials describe as “process orchestration”
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 8, 2005
BIRT is enabled in part by technology expertise from reporting stalwart Actuate, which released a branded version of the tool
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 8, 2005
XML and Web services make SQL Server a more interoperable player for BI; both are seen as mixed blessings by IT pros, too.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 1, 2005
CRM kingpin Siebel continues to struggle even as scrappy newcomer Salesforce.com enjoys surprising success.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 1, 2005
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
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 1, 2005
PMML recasts the data warehouse as a turnkey platform for real-time data mining.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 25, 2005