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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. BI aims to deliver straightforward snapshots of the current state of affairs to business managers.

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Migrate Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics to Amazon Redshift using AWS SCT

AWS Big Data

Grant VIEW DEFINITION and VIEW DATABASE STATE to each schema you are trying to convert to the database user used for migration. For Connection name , enter a name (for example, olap-azure-synapse ). Deselect Create final snapshot. Download the Redshift JDBC driver. Download and install Amazon Corretto 11.

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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. We begin with a single-table design as an initial state and build a scalable batch extract, load, and transform (ELT) pipeline to restructure the data into a dimensional model for OLAP workloads.