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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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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.