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Unlocking Data Storage: The Traditional Data Warehouse vs. Cloud Data Warehouse

Sisense

Data warehouse vs. databases Traditional vs. Cloud Explained Cloud data warehouses in your data stack A data-driven future powered by the cloud. We live in a world of data: There’s more of it than ever before, in a ceaselessly expanding array of forms and locations. Data warehouse vs. databases.

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What Are OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) Tools?

Smart Data Collective

This tool can be great for handing SQL queries and other data queries. Every data scientist needs to understand the benefits that this technology offers. Online analytical processing is a computer method that enables users to retrieve and query data rapidly and carefully in order to study it from a variety of angles.

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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 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. READ BLOG POST.

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Simplify Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) queries in Amazon Redshift using new SQL constructs such as ROLLUP, CUBE, and GROUPING SETS

AWS Big Data

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale, massively parallel data warehouse that makes it fast, simple, and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing business intelligence (BI) tools. In this post, we discuss how to use these extensions to simplify your queries in Amazon Redshift.

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What is business intelligence? Transforming data into business insights

CIO Business Intelligence

Business intelligence definition Business intelligence (BI) is a set of strategies and technologies enterprises use to analyze business information and transform it into actionable insights that inform strategic and tactical business decisions.

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How to Build a Performant Data Warehouse in Redshift

Sisense

This blog is intended to give an overview of the considerations you’ll want to make as you build your Redshift data warehouse to ensure you are getting the optimal performance. First, we’ll dive into the two types of databases: OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) and OLTP (Online Transaction Processing).