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Data Modeling 301 for the cloud: data lake and NoSQL data modeling and design

erwin

For NoSQL, data lakes, and data lake houses—data modeling of both structured and unstructured data is somewhat novel and thorny. This blog is an introduction to some advanced NoSQL and data lake database design techniques (while avoiding common pitfalls) is noteworthy. Data Modeling.

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Prevent Customer Churn: Customer Retention in the Transition to Microsoft D365 F&SCM

Jet Global

These benefits come with a caveat, however. In this respect, we often hear references to “switching costs” and “stickiness.” When the cost of switching to a new product is high, customers tend to remain where they are. Ultimately, though, switching costs are not so much about absolute numbers as they are about relative costs.

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How OLAP and AI can enable better business

IBM Big Data Hub

Online analytical processing (OLAP) database systems and artificial intelligence (AI) complement each other and can help enhance data analysis and decision-making when used in tandem. As AI techniques continue to evolve, innovative applications in the OLAP domain are anticipated.

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Understanding Data Entities in Microsoft Dynamics 365

Jet Global

Writing fresh reports requires deploying data entities, customizing them, and sometimes even creating new data entities from scratch with custom programming. Data entities are accessed using the OData protocol. In the future, customers will be able to deploy Data Entities and replicate transactional tables in an Azure Data Lake.

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Data Modeling 201 for the cloud: designing databases for data warehouses

erwin

Static over-provisioning or dynamic scaling will run up monthly cloud costs very quickly on a bad design. So, you really should get familiar with your cloud providers sizing vs. cost calculator. It shows pricing for a data warehousing project with just 4 TBs of data, small by today’s standards. Look at Figure 1 below.

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Unlocking Data Storage: The Traditional Data Warehouse vs. Cloud Data Warehouse

Sisense

While the architecture of traditional data warehouses and cloud data warehouses does differ, the ways in which data professionals interact with them (via SQL or SQL-like languages) is roughly the same. The primary differentiator is the data workload they serve. with a cloud data warehouse is simple.

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Why Business Intelligence is Top of Mind for CFOs for 2022

Jet Global

The term “ business intelligence ” (BI) has been in common use for several decades now, referring initially to the OLAP systems that drew largely upon pre-processed information stored in data warehouses. As the cost benefit ratio of BI has become more and more attractive, the pace of global business has also accelerated.