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8 data strategy mistakes to avoid

CIO Business Intelligence

Data silos result in inconsistencies and operational inefficiencies, says John Williams, executive director of enterprise data and advanced analytics at RaceTrac, an operator of convenience stores. This empowers data users to make decisions informed by data and in real-time with increased confidence.”

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Gain insights from historical location data using Amazon Location Service and AWS analytics services

AWS Big Data

The solution consists of the following interfaces: IoT or mobile application – A mobile application or an Internet of Things (IoT) device allows the tracking of a company vehicle while it is in use and transmits its current location securely to the data ingestion layer in AWS. The ingestion approach is not in scope of this post.

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Transforming Big Data into Actionable Intelligence

Sisense

Looking at the diagram, we see that Business Intelligence (BI) is a collection of analytical methods applied to big data to surface actionable intelligence by identifying patterns in voluminous data. As we move from right to left in the diagram, from big data to BI, we notice that unstructured data transforms into structured data.

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Building Better Data Models to Unlock Next-Level Intelligence

Sisense

We’re going to nerd out for a minute and dig into the evolving architecture of Sisense to illustrate some elements of the data modeling process: Historically, the data modeling process that Sisense recommended was to structure data mainly to support the BI and analytics capabilities/users.