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

Jet Global

There was always a delay between the events being recorded in financial systems (for example, the purchase of a product or service) and the ability to put that information in context and draw useful conclusions from it (for example, a weekly sales report). Such BI methodologies are built on a snapshot of what happened in the past.

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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. An optimal design choice is to use a dimensional model. Building a dimensional model A dimensional model optimizes read performance through efficient joins and filters.