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

Jet Global

That stands for “bring your own database,” and it refers to a model in which core ERP data are replicated to a separate standalone database used exclusively for reporting. That works reasonably well for traditional reporting functions. For more powerful, multidimensional OLAP-style reporting, however, it falls short.

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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!