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Build an Amazon Redshift data warehouse using an Amazon DynamoDB single-table design

AWS Big Data

Deriving business insights by identifying year-on-year sales growth is an example of an online analytical processing (OLAP) query. These types of queries are suited for a data warehouse. Amazon Redshift is fully managed, scalable, cloud data warehouse.

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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. Such BI methodologies are built on a snapshot of what happened in the past.

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What is business intelligence? Transforming data into business insights

CIO Business Intelligence

Improved employee satisfaction: Providing business users access to data without having to contact analysts or IT can reduce friction, increase productivity, and facilitate faster results. BI aims to deliver straightforward snapshots of the current state of affairs to business managers.

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Unleashing the power of Presto: The Uber case study

IBM Big Data Hub

To address their performance needs, Uber chose Presto because of its ability, as a distributed platform, to scale in linear fashion and because of its commitment to ANSI-SQL, the lingua franca of analytical processing. For traditional analytics, they are bringing data discipline to their use of Presto.

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