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The Business Intelligence Market – What’s Old is New

In(tegrate) the Clouds

As the data visualization, big data, Hadoop, Spark and self-service hype gives way to IoT, AI and Machine Learning, I dug up an old parody post on the business intelligence market circa 2007-2009 when cloud analytics was just a disruptive idea. Thanks to The OLAP Report for lots of great market materials. IT couldn’t find them.

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Complexity Drives Costs: A Look Inside BYOD and Azure Data Lakes

Jet Global

It’s important to look beyond the surface, however, because there are some critical architectural changes that could dramatically affect how end-users get information out of the system. Let’s start with some background information. For more powerful, multidimensional OLAP-style reporting, however, it falls short.

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How OLAP and AI can enable better business

IBM Big Data Hub

Online analytical processing (OLAP) database systems and artificial intelligence (AI) complement each other and can help enhance data analysis and decision-making when used in tandem. As AI techniques continue to evolve, innovative applications in the OLAP domain are anticipated.

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What are decision support systems? Sifting data for better business decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

Decision support systems definition A decision support system (DSS) is an interactive information system that analyzes large volumes of data for informing business decisions. Digital marketing and services firm Clearlink uses a DSS system to help its managers pinpoint which agents need extra help. Information Builders WebFOCUS.

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Navigating Data Entities, BYOD, and Data Lakes in Microsoft Dynamics

Jet Global

Now, instead of making a direct call to the underlying database to retrieve information, a report must query a so-called “data entity” instead. Online analytical processing (OLAP), which enabled users to quickly and easily view data along different dimensions, was coming of age. Data warehouses have been in widespread use for years.

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What Role Does Data Mining Play for Business Intelligence?

Jet Global

Data drives everything in the business world, from manufacturing to supply chain logistics to retail sales to customer experience to post-sale marketing and beyond, data holds the secrets to making processes more efficient, production costs cheaper, profit margins higher and marketing campaigns more effective. READ BLOG POST.

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Why Business Intelligence is Top of Mind for CFOs for 2022

Jet Global

The term “ business intelligence ” (BI) has been in common use for several decades now, referring initially to the OLAP systems that drew largely upon pre-processed information stored in data warehouses. BI allows users to play with data, arrange it into different hierarchies, filter it, and summarize the information in various ways.