article thumbnail

What is business intelligence? Transforming data into business insights

CIO Business Intelligence

Benefits of BI BI helps business decision-makers get the information they need to make informed decisions. The potential use cases for BI extend beyond the typical business performance metrics of improved sales and reduced costs.

article thumbnail

How to Build a Performant Data Warehouse in Redshift

Sisense

First, we’ll dive into the two types of databases: OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) and OLTP (Online Transaction Processing). This approach made sense during a time in which the cost of storage was high, so normalizing tables reduced the total footprint. So let’s dive in! OLTP vs OLAP.

article thumbnail

Unleashing the power of Presto: The Uber case study

IBM Big Data Hub

Presto is an open source distributed SQL query engine for data analytics and the data lakehouse, designed for running interactive analytic queries against datasets of all sizes, from gigabytes to petabytes. It excels in scalability and supports a wide range of analytical use cases.

OLAP 90