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.
All articles by Steve Swoyer
Teradata users have been cautiously optimistic all along, and as things come down to the wire, user optimism seems to be growing.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 11, 2007
Scaling complex BI deployments isn’t getting any easier, Cognos and Appfluent say.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 5, 2007
The BI Top Five is essentially unchanged from last year. In fact, the top four BI players seem to have dug themselves in for the long haul.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 5, 2007
What do Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP have going for them, and where do they need to improve if they’re to tackle the best-of-breeds?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 27, 2007
Don’t look now, but Office and Excel are shaping up as PerformancePoint Server’s biggest competition.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 27, 2007
So much for SAP not being willing to spend, at least at a pace with rival Oracle Corp., to acquire talent and technology.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 20, 2007