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
Apex tapped a BI infrastructure from SAS to help illuminate its 4 TB healthcare information warehouse.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 21, 2005
Cognos may have snared lots of newsprint last week, but Business Objects wasn’t exactly out to lunch. The BI giant picked up a new CEO, named a CSO, and also announced a spate of new solutions for the mid-market. But what exactly does the CEO switch-up mean?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 21, 2005
Users say performance and usability improvements make Cognos 8 a much more attractive package
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 21, 2005
SP1 delivers a graphical metadata development tool, support for VBA, and a new scripting language
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 14, 2005
First PeopleSoft, now Siebel Systems: Oracle Corp.’s appetite for large-scale acquisitions seems insatiable. Larry Ellison’s company can now trumpet the availability of best-in-breed database, human resources (HR), customer relationship management (CRM), and analytic software. What does it all mean?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 14, 2005
If early feedback from analysts and users is any indication, Cognos appears to have a winner in its Series 8 BI Suite
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 14, 2005