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
A few weeks ago, Big Blue announced a new commodity data warehouse appliance based on 64-bit Opteron chips from AMD.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 28, 2006
MicroStrategy continues to go its own way in the fast-changing BI suite-scape.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 28, 2006
It might spell doom and gloom for vendors, but many BI pros think Microsoft’s BI push is good news for Microsoft-centric BI shops
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 28, 2006
With more than one-third of the Fortune 100 tapping QuickBase for CRM, sales management and project management, Intuit thinks it has a winner on its hands.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 21, 2006
With solid data federation capabilities and new ETL features, Sybase’s evolving data integration stack could bear watching.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 21, 2006
Oracle’s $6 billion acquisition of Siebel was good enough for second place—behind arch-rival SAP—in 2005’s torrid CRM market.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 21, 2006