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Data Modeling 201 for the cloud: designing databases for data warehouses

erwin

Designing databases for data warehouses or data marts is intrinsically much different than designing for traditional OLTP systems. Accordingly, data modelers must embrace some new tricks when designing data warehouses and data marts. Figure 1: Pricing for a 4 TB data warehouse in AWS.

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Navigating Data Entities, BYOD, and Data Lakes in Microsoft Dynamics

Jet Global

For more sophisticated multidimensional reporting functions, however, a more advanced approach to staging data is required. The Data Warehouse Approach. 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.

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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 OLAP and AI can enable better business

IBM Big Data Hub

Online analytical processing (OLAP) database systems and artificial intelligence (AI) complement each other and can help enhance data analysis and decision-making when used in tandem. As AI techniques continue to evolve, innovative applications in the OLAP domain are anticipated.

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The Enterprise AI Revolution Starts with BI

Jet Global

Which problems do disparate data points speak to? And how can the data collected across multiple touchpoints, from retail locations to the supply chain to the factory be easily integrated? Enter data warehousing.

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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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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. Start future proofing your business today.