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What is business intelligence? Transforming data into business insights

CIO Business Intelligence

BI aims to deliver straightforward snapshots of the current state of affairs to business managers. and prescriptive (what should the organization be doing to create better outcomes?). This gets to the heart of the question of who business intelligence is for.

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Build an Amazon Redshift data warehouse using an Amazon DynamoDB single-table design

AWS Big Data

A key pillar of AWS’s modern data strategy is the use of purpose-built data stores for specific use cases to achieve performance, cost, and scale. Deriving business insights by identifying year-on-year sales growth is an example of an online analytical processing (OLAP) query.

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Unleashing the power of Presto: The Uber case study

IBM Big Data Hub

The technical value of Presto at Uber Analyzing complex data types with Presto As a digital native company, Uber continues to expand its use cases for Presto. For traditional analytics, they are bringing data discipline to their use of Presto. They ingest data in snapshots from operational systems.

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