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What is business intelligence? Transforming data into business insights

CIO Business Intelligence

The potential use cases for BI extend beyond the typical business performance metrics of improved sales and reduced costs. BI aims to deliver straightforward snapshots of the current state of affairs to business managers. and prescriptive (what should the organization be doing to create better outcomes?).

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Unleashing the power of Presto: The Uber case study

IBM Big Data Hub

They ingest data in snapshots from operational systems. Next, they build model data sets out of the snapshots, cleanse and deduplicate the data, and prepare it for analysis as Parquet files. The power of Presto in Uber’s data-driven journey Today, Uber relies on Presto to power some impressive metrics.

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