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
As Microsoft preps its most ambitious business intelligence offering to date—SQL Server 2005—the good relations it enjoys with some long-time BI partners could be at risk
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 26, 2005
Is Cognos positioning itself to better tackle Business Objects on its own turf?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 26, 2005
With as much as 75 percent of corporate data still sitting on the mainframe, Big Iron is a platform few BI vendors can afford to ignore
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 19, 2005
It’s no silver bullet, but those who have used XI say the product goes a long way to addressing most of their concerns
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 19, 2005
There’s little risk for CRM vendors who wish to get into the social networking game—and the potential upside is enormous
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 19, 2005
Increasingly, ETL is being tapped to support non-data warehousing activities, such as database consolidations and migrations
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 12, 2005