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

Jet Global

First, accounting moved into the digital age and made it possible for data to be processed and summarized more efficiently. Spreadsheets enabled finance professionals to access data faster and to crunch the numbers with much greater ease. Today’s technology takes this evolution a step further.

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Prevent Customer Churn: Customer Retention in the Transition to Microsoft D365 F&SCM

Jet Global

You might measure those costs in different ways, including actual dollars and cents, staff time, added complexity, and risk. There are numerous soft costs involving risk and potential business disruption. A non-developer can build a custom data warehouse with Jet Analytics in as little as 30 minutes.

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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.