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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                    Stephen Brobst says Teradata’s vision of “extreme data warehousing” is about a lot more than just an attention-grabbing marketing term
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - April 13, 2005
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Because of the range of BI partners impacted, IBM's Ascential buyout could prove to be the most disruptive BI acquisition to date.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - April 13, 2005
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Firstlogic’s new data quality services offering promises to help companies quickly get up to speed on the technology
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - April 13, 2005
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Monarch 8 lets users extract information directly from PDF files for analysis, or export data from PDF files to spreadsheets or databases
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - April 6, 2005
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    WebFOCUS 7 incorporates adapters into more than 200 different structured and unstructured data sources
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - April 6, 2005
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    With IBM/Ascential, Informatica/Composite, and other announcements taking center stage recently, it's clearly been a disruptive spring in the data integration market
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - April 6, 2005