Sid Adelman is a Principal in Sid Adelman & Associates, an organization specializing in developing data strategies and data governance. Mr. Adelman's IT career spans over 40 years. He has been involved with business intelligence and data warehousing for the last two decades. Mr. Adelman has published hundreds of articles, white papers, and columns. He coauthored the books Data Warehouse Project Management, Impossible Data Warehouse Situations and Solutions from the Experts, and Data Strategy. Mr. Adelman was a consulting systems engineer at IBM for 24 years, working as an IMS and then a DB2 specialist. He holds an MBA in business economics from UCLA and is a member of the IBM Gold Group and Teradata 3rd Party Influencers. Most recently, Mr. Adelman focuses on the wise and unwise data management decisions made by individuals and organizations. He can be reached at sidadelman@aol.com or via his website (www.sidadelman.com).