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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1

BizAcuity

2007: Amazon launches SimpleDB, a non-relational (NoSQL) database that allows businesses to cheaply process vast amounts of data with minimal effort. Businesses find the need to manage unstructured data efficiently as a major business problem. Data lakes or data lake houses alone cannot solve the efficiency problem.

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How to Choose the Best Analytics Platform, and Empower Business-Driven Analytics

Grooper

Master data management. Data governance. Structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Data pipelines. Business Analytics. Business analytics is a focus on practical requirements needed for understanding current performance and for predicting future outcomes. Databases, tables, and columns.