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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                    What's the big to-do about an XML-optimized EII platform? Plenty, says Ipedo
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - January 3, 2007
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Wouldn’t it be great if there were an open, extensible business reporting language? The good news is that such a standard already exists. Sort of. 
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - January 3, 2007
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Industry watchers once scribbled epitaphs for pure-play competitor Informatica. A funny thing happened, however: Informatica has thrived.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - January 3, 2007
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    SaaS and other new-fangled application deployment paradigms came to the fore in 2006, even as the fat client BI suite of old came into its own.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - December 27, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    IT players will accelerate their adoption of new business models and technologies—anything, it seems, to buck the slow-and-steady spending trend.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - December 20, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    This year, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP dropped all pretense and started talking candidly about their ambitions in the BI space.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - December 20, 2006