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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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SQL Server 2005 Offers Risks, Rewards for Business Intelligence Vendors

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

Cognos Continues EU Push

Is Cognos positioning itself to better tackle Business Objects on its own turf?

Sybase, Informatica Partnership Targets Mainframe Data

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

Business Objects XI Gets Favorable User Feedback

It’s no silver bullet, but those who have used XI say the product goes a long way to addressing most of their concerns

Social Networking: The CRM Trend to Follow

There’s little risk for CRM vendors who wish to get into the social networking game—and the potential upside is enormous

Non-data-warehouse ETL Usage Growing

Increasingly, ETL is being tapped to support non-data warehousing activities, such as database consolidations and migrations

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