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.
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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                    Kalido's new KONA appliance could well be the first of its kind
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- September 9, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    SaaS BI specialist Birst practices what it preaches, officials say; it is, first and foremost, a general purpose BI platform.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- August 26, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Companies that have used open source solutions for a decade or more are now looking at that distribution model for their BI tools.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- August 26, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A recent survey suggests a clear and inescapable rise in the consumption -- and importance -- of unstructured data
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- August 12, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Big Blue’s acquisition of SPSS could herald a return to prominence for statistics gurus, model architects, and other power users. It’s about time, industry watchers say.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- July 29, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Informatica's PowerCenter Cloud Edition will support Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) along with Salesforce.com and Web services.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- July 29, 2009