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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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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. There may be inaccuracy because of sampling, but it allows users to discover new viewpoints within the data.

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Master Your Power BI Environment with Tabular Models

Jet Global

As a security measure, Microsoft is closing off direct database access to live Microsoft Dynamics ERP data. The company is pointing customers to several other options, including “BYOD” (which stands for “bring your own database”) and Microsoft Azure data lakes. This leads to the second option, which is a data warehouse.