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How Will The Cloud Impact Data Warehousing Technologies?

Smart Data Collective

Data warehouse, also known as a decision support database, refers to a central repository, which holds information derived from one or more data sources, such as transactional systems and relational databases. The data collected in the system may in the form of unstructured, semi-structured, or structured data.

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What is business intelligence? Transforming data into business insights

CIO Business Intelligence

Dashboards are hosted software applications that automatically pull together available data into charts and graphs that give a sense of the immediate state of the company. Whereas BI studies historical data to guide business decision-making, business analytics is about looking forward.

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What Is Embedded Analytics?

Jet Global

Users Want to Help Themselves Data mining is no longer confined to the research department. Today, every professional has the power to be a “data expert.” Let’s just give our customers access to the data. You’ve settled for becoming a data collection tool rather than adding value to your product.