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

Jet Global

Data warehouses gained momentum back in the early 1990s as companies dealing with growing volumes of data were seeking ways to make analytics faster and more accessible. Online analytical processing (OLAP), which enabled users to quickly and easily view data along different dimensions, was coming of age.

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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. Next-generation cloud OLAP database engines are expected to bring significant advancements.

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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.

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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. For example, the same dataset could be used to build machine learning (ML) models to identify trends and predict sales. These types of queries are suited for a data warehouse.