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
Designed for mid-market customers, Crystal Reports Server XI offers a subset of the capabilities of the BusinessObjects XI suite
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 9, 2005
Informatica CEO Sohaib Abbasi charts a pragmatic course when talking about his company’s vendor partners—but pulls no punches on the subject of ETL competitors
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 9, 2005
Business intelligence vendors must make their software more affordable—and provide better service once it’s been sold
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 2, 2005
CRM competitors could target potentially disaffected customers—particularly if Oracle is less than sincere about servicing them
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 2, 2005
As the major enterprise application vendors flesh out their analytic offerings, Siebel is in the forefront
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 2, 2005
In the age of SCO, patent suits are fraught with peril—especially for end users, who can find themselves simmering in the legal hot seat
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 26, 2005