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

AWS Big Data

It covers how to use a conceptual, logical architecture for some of the most popular gaming industry use cases like event analysis, in-game purchase recommendations, measuring player satisfaction, telemetry data analysis, and more. Data lakes are more focused around storing and maintaining all the data in an organization in one place.

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Financial Intelligence vs. Business Intelligence: What’s the Difference?

Jet Global

There was always a delay between the events being recorded in financial systems (for example, the purchase of a product or service) and the ability to put that information in context and draw useful conclusions from it (for example, a weekly sales report). What Is Financial Intelligence? Today’s technology takes this evolution a step further.

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What Role Does Data Mining Play for Business Intelligence?

Jet Global

But data alone is not the answer—without a means to interact with the data and extract meaningful insight, it’s essentially useless. Business intelligence (BI) software can help by combining online analytical processing (OLAP), location intelligence, enterprise reporting, and more.

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Why Business Intelligence is Top of Mind for CFOs for 2022

Jet Global

The term “ business intelligence ” (BI) has been in common use for several decades now, referring initially to the OLAP systems that drew largely upon pre-processed information stored in data warehouses. and “How have recent events affected sales of consumer packaged goods through grocery stores?”.

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Migrate Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics to Amazon Redshift using AWS SCT

AWS Big Data

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse that provides the flexibility to use provisioned or serverless compute for your analytical workloads. You can get faster insights without spending valuable time managing your data warehouse. Fault tolerance is built in.

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Closing the breach window, from data to action

IBM Big Data Hub

The list of challenges is long: cloud attack surface sprawl, complex application environments, information overload from disparate tools, noise from false positives and low-risk events, just to name a few. You get near real-time visibility and insights from your ingested data.