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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                    With its new FPM offering, Actuate is competing more aggressively against performance-management specialists such as Cognos and Hyperion
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - February 16, 2005
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Warehouse 8.0 means that Teradata is still the vendor to beat in the high-end data warehousing space.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - February 16, 2005
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    BI suite boasts improved support for heterogeneous data sources, new data mining capabilities, and integration with SAP BW
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - February 9, 2005
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Informatica CEO Sohaib Abbasi charts a pragmatic course when talking about his company’s vendor partners—but pulls no punches on the subject of ETL competitors
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - February 9, 2005
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Designed for mid-market customers, Crystal Reports Server XI offers a subset of the capabilities of the BusinessObjects XI suite
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - February 9, 2005
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Business intelligence vendors must make their software more affordable—and provide better service once it’s been sold
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - February 2, 2005