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.
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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                    Hadoop all but went supernova at last month's Hadoop Summit event.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- July 23, 2013
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    When it comes to decision making, what you exclude can be as important as what you include.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- July 16, 2013
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Agile and data quality could make for an especially organic fit. After all, DQ already has an agile ace in the hole: the data steward.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- July 16, 2013
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Big data has the potential to alter the calculus by which data management groups buy, manage, and structure information storage. 
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- June 18, 2013
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The New Model of retail sales analytics aims to optimize and personalize the retail shopping experience for customers by integrating non-traditional data sources.  
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- June 4, 2013
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    In-memory database engines seem to be everywhere. Trouble is, few so-called "in-memory" databases actually run completely in memory.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- May 21, 2013