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Differentiating Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Smart Data Collective

We talked about enterprise data warehouses in the past, so let’s contrast them with data lakes. Demand is growing at an annual pace of 29%. 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. Data Warehouse.

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Reporting Analytics vs. Financial Reporting: Is There a Difference?

Jet Global

An inventory count sheet, for example, extracts information from the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and may even present dollar figures associated with each unique stock-keeping unit (SKU). In contrast with financial reporting, analytics tends to cast a much wider net in terms of its overall purpose and objectives.