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Differentiating Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Smart Data Collective

The market for data warehouses is booming. One study forecasts that the market will be worth $23.8 While there is a lot of discussion about the merits of data warehouses, not enough discussion centers around data lakes. Both data warehouses and data lakes are used when storing big data.

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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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Databricks’ new data lakehouse aims at media, entertainment sector

CIO Business Intelligence

The data lakehouse is a relatively new data architecture concept, first championed by Cloudera, which offers both storage and analytics capabilities as part of the same solution, in contrast to the concepts for data lake and data warehouse which, respectively, store data in native format, and structured data, often in SQL format.

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Straumann Group is transforming dentistry with data, AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Selling the value of data transformation Iyengar and his team are 18 months into a three- to five-year journey that started by building out the data layer — corralling data sources such as ERP, CRM, and legacy databases into data warehouses for structured data and data lakes for unstructured data.

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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Overview: Data science vs data analytics Think of data science as the overarching umbrella that covers a wide range of tasks performed to find patterns in large datasets, structure data for use, train machine learning models and develop artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

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Delivering More Impactful Insights From Your Cloud Data

Sisense

Datasets are on the rise and most of that data is on the cloud. The recent rise of cloud data warehouses like Snowflake means businesses can better leverage all their data using Sisense seamlessly with products like the Snowflake Cloud Data Platform to strengthen their businesses. “The

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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.