CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

BI tools access and analyze data sets and present analytical findings in reports, summaries, dashboards, graphs, charts, and maps to provide users with detailed intelligence about the state of the business. Whereas BI studies historical data to guide business decision-making, business analytics is about looking forward.

Business Intelligence 144

Business Intelligence Dashboards Data mining OLAP 144

Sisense

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

If there’s a need for data storage and processing of transactional data that serves an application, then an OLTP database is great. However, if the goal is to perform complex analytics on large sets of data from disparate sources, a warehouse is the better solution. The primary differentiator is the data workload they serve.

Data Warehouse 52

Data Warehouse Data Lake OLAP Data-driven 52

Sisense

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Every aspect of analytics is powered by a data model. A data model presents a “single source of truth” that all analytics queries are based on, from internal reports and insights embedded into applications to the data underlying AI algorithms and much more. DBT: Data Build Tool. Sisense data models. The benefits of DBT with Jinja.

Modeling 52

Modeling OLAP Data Warehouse Cost-Benefit 52