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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                    Business Objects enters into alliance with open-source database vendor MySQL
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - April 27, 2005
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Next version of Reporting Services for SQL Server 2005 will marry developer facility with an intuitive and easy-to-use client-side console designed expressly for business users
                    
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 - April 27, 2005
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Many customers are doing just fine with scripting or programmatic SQL. So when is an enterprise ETL tool the right choice for you?
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - April 27, 2005
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Project Avalanche provides a single workspace for operational reporting and ad hoc query and analysis
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - April 20, 2005
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Retooled SAS 9 suite includes integrated OLAP capabilities and a substantially retooled Web Report Studio
                    
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 - April 20, 2005
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Building on last month’s Multiforce initiative, Salesforce.com plans to branch out from its hosted CRM roots
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - April 20, 2005