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BI Cubed: Data Lineage on OLAP Anyone?

Octopai

However, over time new technologies and tools developed to ease data reporting and analysis. This is how the Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) cube was born, which you might call one of the grooviest BI inventions developed in the 70s. Saving time and headaches with online analytical processing tool.

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

Jet Global

Finance leaders that were quick to recognize the new paradigm got a head start, using the new technology to make their organizations more efficient and profitable. Over the past few decades, however, technology has been closing that gap. Today’s technology takes this evolution a step further.

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What is business intelligence? Transforming data into business insights

CIO Business Intelligence

Business intelligence definition Business intelligence (BI) is a set of strategies and technologies enterprises use to analyze business information and transform it into actionable insights that inform strategic and tactical business decisions. BI aims to deliver straightforward snapshots of the current state of affairs to business managers.

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Unleashing the power of Presto: The Uber case study

IBM Big Data Hub

For traditional analytics, they are bringing data discipline to their use of Presto. They ingest data in snapshots from operational systems. Next, they build model data sets out of the snapshots, cleanse and deduplicate the data, and prepare it for analysis as Parquet files. It lands as raw data in HDFS.

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