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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. Unlike the old connector, the new version uses a snapshot of the DynamoDB table and doesn’t consume read capacity units of your source DynamoDB table.