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

Jet Global

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. Online analytical processing (OLAP), which enabled users to quickly and easily view data along different dimensions, was coming of age.

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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.

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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. Customer lifetime value analysis : OLAP helps businesses identify high-value customers and develop strategies to retain them.

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Build an Amazon Redshift data warehouse using an Amazon DynamoDB single-table design

AWS Big Data

A key pillar of AWS’s modern data strategy is the use of purpose-built data stores for specific use cases to achieve performance, cost, and scale. Deriving business insights by identifying year-on-year sales growth is an example of an online analytical processing (OLAP) query.

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Unleashing the power of Presto: The Uber case study

IBM Big Data Hub

Uber understood that digital superiority required the capture of all their transactional data, not just a sampling. They stood up a file-based data lake alongside their analytical database. Uber chose Presto for the flexibility it provides with compute separated from data storage.

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