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Advancing AI: The emergence of a modern information lifecycle

CIO Business Intelligence

Although less complex than the “4 Vs” of big data (velocity, veracity, volume, and variety), orienting to the variety and volume of a challenging puzzle is similar to what CIOs face with information management. A modern ILM approach helps CIOs and their teams align processes to business objectives and regulatory requirements.

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

Jet Global

Now, instead of making a direct call to the underlying database to retrieve information, a report must query a so-called “data entity” instead. Each data entity provides an abstract representation of business objects within the database, such as, customers, general ledger accounts, or purchase orders. It is unstructured.

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Building Better Data Models to Unlock Next-Level Intelligence

Sisense

We’re going to nerd out for a minute and dig into the evolving architecture of Sisense to illustrate some elements of the data modeling process: Historically, the data modeling process that Sisense recommended was to structure data mainly to support the BI and analytics capabilities/users.