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
Thanks to five years and more of gestation, many of the business intelligence (BI) facilities Microsoft ships with SQL Server 2005 bear only a facile resemblance to their predecessors. We spoke with SQL pros about the good, the bad, and the lovely qualities of Redmond’s next-gen BI stack.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 15, 2006
Can the open-source BI Reporting Tool (BIRT, for short) displace more powerful—and costly – third-party offerings?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 15, 2006
Business intelligence powerhouses Hyperion and Teradata last week announced a combined retail analytics solution.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 8, 2006
Now that Oracle’s on board, all three market-leading database vendors have articulated enterprise search strategies.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 8, 2006
This week, Applix unveiled a Windows x64-ready version of its OLAP engine. Pre-release demand, officials claim, was through the roof.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 8, 2006
It’s an in-database, in-memory ROLAP engine that—officials say—could be just the Rx for dashboard-driven analysis.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 1, 2006