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

Jet Global

Reporting will change in D365 F&SCM, and those changes could significantly increase complexity and total cost of ownership. To enhance security, Microsoft has decided to restrict that kind of direct database access in D365 F&SCM and replace it with an abstraction layer comprised of something called “data entities”.

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

Jet Global

Consultants and developers familiar with the AX data model could query the database using any number of different tools, including a myriad of different report writers. The SQL query language used to extract data for reporting could also potentially be used to insert, update, or delete records from the database.

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Understanding Data Entities in Microsoft Dynamics 365

Jet Global

For organizations considering a move to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management (D365 F&SCM), or for those in the early stages of an implementation project, defining a clear strategy for curating data is a key to developing a comprehensive approach to reporting and analytics. What Are Data Entities?

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

Jet Global

In the world of ERP software, switching costs include a number of hard costs like license fees, system analysis and design, customization, third-party add-ons, report design, and more, but many of those tasks also consume valuable staff time and management attention. Reporting as a Key Cost-driver.

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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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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. Cloud data warehouses in your data stack.

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

erwin

The first and most important thing to recognize and understand is the new and radically different target environment that you are now designing a data model for. Star schema: a data modeling and database design paradigm for data warehouses and data lakes. You can pre-scan and pre-aggregate data to speed up queries.