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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                    Many customers will welcome a tight coupling between Ascential and IBM technologies
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - March 30, 2005
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Panorama Software says it won’t become just another notch in Microsoft’s mergers-and-acquisitions bedpost
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - March 30, 2005
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Company’s new offering incorporates ILM practices to bring ballooning data warehouse volumes under control
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - March 30, 2005
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    As a small, relatively unknown company, Attensity has its work cut out for it in a highly competitive text-mining landscape
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - March 23, 2005
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    IBM has, or will soon have, the data integration goods, but can it convince customers it isn’t just a DB2- or WebSphere-centric play?
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - March 23, 2005
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    ETL competitors view IBM’s acquisition of Ascential as a game-changing opportunity
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - March 23, 2005