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BI Cubed: Data Lineage on OLAP Anyone?

Octopai

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. OLAP cube is designed as a solution to pre-compute totals and subtotals when the database server is idle. Saving time and headaches with online analytical processing tool.

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Reporting Analytics vs. Financial Reporting: Is There a Difference?

Jet Global

The terms “reporting” and “analytics” are often used interchangeably. In fact there are some very important differences between the two, and understanding those distinctions can go a long way toward helping your organization make best use of both financial reporting and analytics. What About Financial Analytics?

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What are decision support systems? Sifting data for better business decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

Bayer Crop Science has applied analytics and decision-support to every element of its business, including the creation of “virtual factories” to perform “what-if” analyses at its corn manufacturing sites. It features support for creating and visualizing decision tree–driven customer interaction flows. Crop planning. Clinical DSS.

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What’s the Difference Between Business Intelligence and Business Analytics?

Sisense

This is where Business Analytics (BA) and Business Intelligence (BI) come in: both provide methods and tools for handling and making sense of the data at your disposal. So…what is the difference between business intelligence and business analytics? What Does “Business Analytics” Mean? What’s In a Name? Let’s take a closer look.

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Navigating Data Entities, BYOD, and Data Lakes in Microsoft Dynamics

Jet Global

Data warehouses gained momentum back in the early 1990s as companies dealing with growing volumes of data were seeking ways to make analytics faster and more accessible. Online analytical processing (OLAP), which enabled users to quickly and easily view data along different dimensions, was coming of age. Data Lakes.

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How gaming companies can use Amazon Redshift Serverless to build scalable analytical applications faster and easier

AWS Big Data

This post provides guidance on how to build scalable analytical solutions for gaming industry use cases using Amazon Redshift Serverless. The following diagram is a conceptual analytics data hub reference architecture. This reference architecture partly combines a data hub and data lake to enable comprehensive analytics services.

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The Business Intelligence Market – What’s Old is New

In(tegrate) the Clouds

As the data visualization, big data, Hadoop, Spark and self-service hype gives way to IoT, AI and Machine Learning, I dug up an old parody post on the business intelligence market circa 2007-2009 when cloud analytics was just a disruptive idea. Thanks to The OLAP Report for lots of great market materials. IT couldn’t find them.