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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                    If non-technical people don't grasp why good data management is important, argues Linda Powell, chief data officer with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, IT people and data management practitioners have only themselves to blame.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - August 18, 2015
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Start-up Interana proposes to marry the best aspects of the self-service model with best-in-class event and time-series processing at scale.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - July 21, 2015
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A transparent SQL-on-Hadoop query mechanism would open up data stored in Hadoop to Teradata Warehouse and a universe of SQL-speaking BI tools.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - July 21, 2015
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    MDM often seems like an endless process of planning. MDM specialist Semarchy touts a new take on MDM that it says emphasizes doing.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - July 14, 2015
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Text-analytics and natural-language processing technologies can help with the NoSQL tsunami -- but not all such products are the same. 
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - July 7, 2015
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A new report from TDWI Research aims to provide a primer for modernizing the data warehouse.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - June 30, 2015