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
Oracle, IBM, and SAP sit atop the performance management heap, but several best-of-breed players are doing their best to keep things interesting
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 16, 2008
IBM pushes ECM as a complement to bread-and-butter data warehousing
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 9, 2008
In 2007, the large, independent, publicly-traded, best-of-breed BI and PM player all but ceased to exist.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 19, 2007
The eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) standard is gaining solid support, momentum
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 12, 2007
Oracle announces BI and performance enhancements and folds Essbase into its BI Foundation—but what about Hyperion’s other BI assets?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 12, 2007
Are privately-held BI players safer bets than their publicly-traded counterparts?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 5, 2007