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What is business intelligence? Transforming data into business insights

CIO Business Intelligence

Business intelligence definition Business intelligence (BI) is a set of strategies and technologies enterprises use to analyze business information and transform it into actionable insights that inform strategic and tactical business decisions. BI aims to deliver straightforward snapshots of the current state of affairs to business managers.

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Migrate Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics to Amazon Redshift using AWS SCT

AWS Big Data

For Connection name , enter a name (for example, olap-azure-synapse ). Deselect Create final snapshot. Provide a meaningful but memorable name for your project (for example, Azure Synapse to Amazon Redshift). To connect to the Azure Synapse source data warehouse, choose Add source. Choose Azure Synapse and choose Next.

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Accelerating revenue growth with real-time analytics: Poshmark’s journey

AWS Big Data

Druid hosted on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) integrates with the Kinesis data stream for streaming ingestion and allows users to run slice-and-dice OLAP queries. He loves software engineering, building high performance teams, and strategy, and enjoys gardening and playing badminton in his free time.

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Build an Amazon Redshift data warehouse using an Amazon DynamoDB single-table design

AWS Big Data

A key pillar of AWS’s modern data strategy is the use of purpose-built data stores for specific use cases to achieve performance, cost, and scale. Deriving business insights by identifying year-on-year sales growth is an example of an online analytical processing (OLAP) query. These types of queries are suited for a data warehouse.

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Unleashing the power of Presto: The Uber case study

IBM Big Data Hub

While this side-by-side strategy enabled data capture, they quickly discovered that the data lake worked well for long-running queries, but it was not fast enough to support the near-real time engagement necessary to maintain a competitive advantage. They ingest data in snapshots from operational systems. It lands as raw data in HDFS.

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