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What are decision support systems? Sifting data for better business decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

A DSS leverages a combination of raw data, documents, personal knowledge, and/or business models to help users make decisions. The data sources used by a DSS could include relational data sources, cubes, data warehouses, electronic health records (EHRs), revenue projections, sales projections, and more.

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Understanding Data Entities in Microsoft Dynamics 365

Jet Global

Confusing matters further, Microsoft has also created something called the Data Entity Store, which serves a different purpose and functions independently of data entities. The Data Entity Store is an internal data warehouse that is only available to embedded Power BI reports (not the full version of Power BI).

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

AWS Big Data

Data lakes are more focused around storing and maintaining all the data in an organization in one place. And unlike data warehouses, which are primarily analytical stores, a data hub is a combination of all types of repositories—analytical, transactional, operational, reference, and data I/O services, along with governance processes.

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Data Modeling 301 for the cloud: data lake and NoSQL data modeling and design

erwin

I was pricing for a data warehousing project with just 4 TBs of data, small by today’s standards. I chose “ON Demand” for up to 64 virtual CPUs and 448 GB of memory since I wanted this data warehouse to fit entirely, or at least mostly, within memory. Figure 1: Pricing for a 4 TB data warehouse in AWS.

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Jet vs. Data Entities in Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations

Jet Global

There are 5 categories of data entities based on their functions and the type of data that they serve: Parameter (Ex. Document (Ex. In D365FO, ad hoc reporting requires you to take the data out of D365FO and put it in de-normalized data entities. General ledger). Reference (Ex. Tax Codes). Master (Ex. Customers).

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The Ultimate Guide to Data Warehouse Automation and Tools

Jet Global

This puts tremendous stress on the teams managing data warehouses, and they struggle to keep up with the demand for increasingly advanced analytic requests. To gather and clean data from all internal systems and gain the business insights needed to make smarter decisions, businesses need to invest in data warehouse automation.

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How to Build a Performant Data Warehouse in Redshift

Sisense

This blog is intended to give an overview of the considerations you’ll want to make as you build your Redshift data warehouse to ensure you are getting the optimal performance. OLTP vs OLAP. First, we’ll dive into the two types of databases: OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) and OLTP (Online Transaction Processing).