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
Are BI vendors on a collision course with the relational database giants? Industry watchers aren’t sure—but some say the uneasy détente is unlikely to last.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 11, 2006
SAS, SPSS, and others say they’re making the Gandalf-the-White world of data mining more accessible— call it data mining for the masses.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 11, 2006
It’s tempting to think of data quality as a soon-and-inevitably-to-be-commoditized technology segment. But think again.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 4, 2006
When it debuts, Mendocino will more tightly couple Office with SAP. But don’t look for it before this summer.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 4, 2006
The revamped i/Lytics is a solid release on the whole—but analysts say Innovative shouldn’t rest on its laurels.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 21, 2005
MySQL gives Business Objects a cost-effective alternative to IBM, Microsoft, and others. This isn’t an unalloyed good, however.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 21, 2005