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Self-Service BI vs Traditional BI: What’s Next?

Alation

This led to the birth of separate systems for reporting: the enterprise data warehouse. For the first time, the focus of a system became business questions, where data was denormalized. At Alation, we believe self-service has three unique stakeholders: End users trying to discover data for decision making.

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Data science vs. machine learning: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

Data from various sources, collected in different forms, require data entry and compilation. That can be made easier today with virtual data warehouses that have a centralized platform where data from different sources can be stored. One challenge in applying data science is to identify pertinent business issues.