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

Jet Global

Consultants and developers familiar with the AX data model could query the database using any number of different tools, including a myriad of different report writers. Data entities are more secure and arguably easier to master than the relational database model, but one downside is there are lots of them!

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How gaming companies can use Amazon Redshift Serverless to build scalable analytical applications faster and easier

AWS Big Data

This post also discusses the art of the possible with newer innovations in AWS services around streaming, machine learning (ML), data sharing, and serverless capabilities. This service is the core of this reference architecture on AWS and can address most analytical needs out of the box.

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What is business intelligence? Transforming data into business insights

CIO Business Intelligence

BI focuses on descriptive analytics, data collection, data storage, knowledge management, and data analysis to evaluate past business data and better understand currently known information. Whereas BI studies historical data to guide business decision-making, business analytics is about looking forward.

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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. Network latency : Geographic distances between data and users can introduce latency issues, affecting query performance.

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How Aura from Unity revolutionized their big data pipeline with Amazon Redshift Serverless

AWS Big Data

Amazon Redshift is a recommended service for online analytical processing (OLAP) workloads such as cloud data warehouses, data marts, and other analytical data stores. Lastly, it’s billed in a pay-for-what-you-use model, and provisioning is straightforward and quick.

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Build an Amazon Redshift data warehouse using an Amazon DynamoDB single-table design

AWS Big Data

In traditional databases, we would model such applications using a normalized data model (entity-relation diagram). Deriving business insights by identifying year-on-year sales growth is an example of an online analytical processing (OLAP) query. To house our data, we need to define a data model.