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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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Prevent Customer Churn: Customer Retention in the Transition to Microsoft D365 F&SCM

Jet Global

Virtually every ERP implementation or upgrade requires substantial effort to design, build, or modify, and then to test reports. As Microsoft focuses its reporting strategy around Power BI and Azure Data Lake services, Dynamics partners should carefully consider the implications of starting down the path that Microsoft is recommending.

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Simplify Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) queries in Amazon Redshift using new SQL constructs such as ROLLUP, CUBE, and GROUPING SETS

AWS Big Data

Solution overview Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) is an effective tool for today’s data and business analysts. An analyst can use OLAP aggregations to analyze buying patterns by grouping customers by demographic, geographic, and psychographic data, and then summarizing the data to look for trends.

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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 ). Choose Test connection to verify that AWS SCT can connect to your source Azure Synapse project. Choose Test connection to verify that AWS SCT can connect to your target Redshift workgroup. When the test is successful, choose OK. Choose Test connection.

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Use the new SQL commands MERGE and QUALIFY to implement and validate change data capture in Amazon Redshift

AWS Big Data

Amazon Redshift has added many features to enhance analytical processing like ROLLUP, CUBE and GROUPING SETS , which were demonstrated in the post Simplify Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) queries in Amazon Redshift using new SQL constructs such as ROLLUP, CUBE, and GROUPING SETS. For more details, refer to MERGE and QUALIFY clause.

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The Ultimate Guide to Data Warehouse Automation and Tools

Jet Global

Whether a business is building a new data warehouse and set of OLAP cubes or revamping an existing one, the project requires developers to write a massive amount of SQL code. The process of writing and testing this code is extremely time time-consuming, labor-intensive, and error-prone. Free up Developers to Work on Strategy.

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Data Mining – useful or not?

Jen Stirrup

In turn, these patterns can be applied to existing customers to pinpoint those who might churn early so that strategies can be put in place to avoid this. One particular technology which is good for summarising and aggregating data is called OLAP (On Line Analytical Processing). Propensity to Churn. Propensity to Buy.