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

Jet Global

The company’s market power is based largely on its ability to promote the “stack”—that is, to position the entire suite of Microsoft products as a holistic solution to customer problems. For more powerful, multidimensional OLAP-style reporting, however, it falls short. OLAP reporting has traditionally relied on a data warehouse.

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

Jet Global

Online analytical processing (OLAP), which enabled users to quickly and easily view data along different dimensions, was coming of age. The challenge with OLAP, however, is that it requires intensive processing power to aggregate data according to various categories or dimensions. 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.

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Time to Act: Key Considerations When Leaving the Legacy Behind

Jedox

Assessing the market to select a suitable replacement that will fully support your organization’s transition to a modern xP&A strategy can be a daunting task. While well-known legacy planning solutions provided great planning tools once upon a time, several of them are near or have reached their end-of-life.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Digital marketing and services firm Clearlink uses a DSS system to help its managers pinpoint which agents need extra help. They generally leverage simple statistical and analytical tools, but Power notes that some OLAP systems that allow complex analysis of data may be classified as hybrid DSS systems. ERP dashboards.