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What are decision support systems? Sifting data for better business decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

A DSS leverages a combination of raw data, documents, personal knowledge, and/or business models to help users make decisions. The data sources used by a DSS could include relational data sources, cubes, data warehouses, electronic health records (EHRs), revenue projections, sales projections, and more.

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

Jet Global

For more sophisticated multidimensional reporting functions, however, a more advanced approach to staging data is required. The Data Warehouse Approach. Data warehouses gained momentum back in the early 1990s as companies dealing with growing volumes of data were seeking ways to make analytics faster and more accessible.

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The Enterprise AI Revolution Starts with BI

Jet Global

Which problems do disparate data points speak to? And how can the data collected across multiple touchpoints, from retail locations to the supply chain to the factory be easily integrated? Enter data warehousing. So how is the data extracted?

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What Role Does Data Mining Play for Business Intelligence?

Jet Global

Business intelligence (BI) software can help by combining online analytical processing (OLAP), location intelligence, enterprise reporting, and more. If data is the fuel driving opportunities for optimization, data mining is the engine—converting that raw fuel into forward motion for your business.

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Understanding Data Entities in Microsoft Dynamics 365

Jet Global

For anyone that needs to develop custom reports and dashboards, it all begins with understanding data entities. What Are Data Entities? Confusing matters further, Microsoft has also created something called the Data Entity Store, which serves a different purpose and functions independently of data entities.

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How gaming companies can use Amazon Redshift Serverless to build scalable analytical applications faster and easier

AWS Big Data

Flexible and easy to use – The solutions should provide less restrictive, easy-to-access, and ready-to-use data. They should also provide optimal performance with low or no tuning. Data lakes are more focused around storing and maintaining all the data in an organization in one place.

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Financial Intelligence vs. Business Intelligence: What’s the Difference?

Jet Global

First, accounting moved into the digital age and made it possible for data to be processed and summarized more efficiently. Spreadsheets enabled finance professionals to access data faster and to crunch the numbers with much greater ease. Today’s technology takes this evolution a step further.