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Complexity Drives Costs: A Look Inside BYOD and Azure Data Lakes

Jet Global

It’s important to look beyond the surface, however, because there are some critical architectural changes that could dramatically affect how end-users get information out of the system. Let’s start with some background information. The Data Security Problem: How We Got Here. Option 3: Azure Data Lakes.

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

Jet Global

Now, instead of making a direct call to the underlying database to retrieve information, a report must query a so-called “data entity” instead. Each data entity provides an abstract representation of business objects within the database, such as, customers, general ledger accounts, or purchase orders. Data Lakes.

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

AWS Big Data

A data hub contains data at multiple levels of granularity and is often not integrated. It differs from a data lake by offering data that is pre-validated and standardized, allowing for simpler consumption by users. Data hubs and data lakes can coexist in an organization, complementing each other.

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Understanding Data Entities in Microsoft Dynamics 365

Jet Global

You would need to pull those data from the line item detail of your customer invoices. To include detailed information about each inventory item on the report, you might also need to link the item number from the invoice detail to the item master table in which additional information on each SKU is stored.

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

Jet Global

The lack of ability to get meaningful information out of ERP systems continues to be one of the top complaints of business executives across every industry. The required investment to develop reports on Power BI and Azure Data Lakes is considerable, and there are substantial liabilities to consider before making a costly long-term commitment.