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Database vs. Data Warehouse: What’s the Difference?

Jet Global

The good news is, nowadays you can find business intelligence solutions with pre-built data warehouses to eliminate complexity, significantly reduce cost, and decrease risk. To manage all the integrated data inside a data warehouse, many companies build cubes (OLAP or tabular) for quick reporting and analysis.

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What Is Embedded Analytics?

Jet Global

Return on Investment Now we bring it all together to calculate the ROI on embedded analytics. Costs: The investment in developing and maintaining the solution. “-1”: The formula assures that a positive ROI is achieved only when benefits exceed the costs. The formula looks like this: ($750k / $250k) = 3, so the ROI is 200 percent.