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.
 
 
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                    Oracle controlled 13.2 percent of the overall business analytics market—far ahead of runner-up SAS.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - November 29, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    No one seems to agree on just what Master Data Management is—and many DM pros still aren’t familiar with MDM as a technology vision, either.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - November 29, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    What’s that you ask? Since when did Informatica become a data quality vendor?
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - November 29, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Pitney Bowes unveiled its new Customer Data Quality (CDQ) Platform, an all-in-one data profiling, data cleansing, and data enrichment suite.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - November 22, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    BI and PM programs -- like that eternal city of proverbial renown -- aren’t just built in a day.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - November 22, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    An increasing number of organizations are tapping full-fledged PM tools—including performance scorecards and dashboards.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - November 15, 2006