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Build an Amazon Redshift data warehouse using an Amazon DynamoDB single-table design

AWS Big Data

Deriving business insights by identifying year-on-year sales growth is an example of an online analytical processing (OLAP) query. These types of queries are suited for a data warehouse. Amazon Redshift is fully managed, scalable, cloud data warehouse. This is achieved by partitioning the data.

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Unleashing the power of Presto: The Uber case study

IBM Big Data Hub

Uber’s DNA as an analytics company At its core, Uber’s business model is deceptively simple: connect a customer at point A to their destination at point B. With a few taps on a mobile device, riders request a ride; then, Uber’s algorithms work to match them with the nearest available driver and calculate the optimal price.

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Financial Intelligence vs. Business Intelligence: What’s the Difference?

Jet Global

First, accounting moved into the digital age and made it possible for data to be processed and summarized more efficiently. Spreadsheets enabled finance professionals to access data faster and to crunch the numbers with much greater ease. Such BI methodologies are built on a snapshot of what happened in the past.