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
Data warehousing firms aren't worried about the rising competition from Oracle, Microsoft, HP, and others.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 15, 2008
Neutrality in partnerships takes center stage in HP’s data warehousing push
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 8, 2008
Microsoft touts an in-memory, column-based Excel data store on every desktop
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 6, 2008
Birst targets the important (but small) projects that are ill-served by existing BI tools, its developers argue
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 1, 2008
The Oracle/HP Database Machine is notable for being as ambiguous as it is ambitious. No one seems to know just how much it costs; which options it includes (or requires); or how much storage it encompasses.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 1, 2008
The revamped Metadata Management XI could be a boon to bilateral integration between SAP and Business Objects environments.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 24, 2008