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

Jet Global

Consultants and developers familiar with the AX data model could query the database using any number of different tools, including a myriad of different report writers. 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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What are decision support systems? Sifting data for better business decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

They emphasize access to and manipulation of large databases of structured data, often a time-series of internal company data and sometimes external data. Model-driven DSS use data and parameters provided by decision-makers, but Power notes they are usually not data-intensive. Model-driven DSS.