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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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Enterprise Reporting: The 2020’s Comprehensive Guide

FineReport

It uses enterprise reporting tools to organize data into charts, tables, widgets, or other visualizations. The central one is the data visualization technology at the display level. And enterprise reporting is the primary data visualization technology in most enterprises. . Enterprise Reporting Strategy .

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Understanding Data Entities in Microsoft Dynamics 365

Jet Global

For organizations considering a move to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management (D365 F&SCM), or for those in the early stages of an implementation project, defining a clear strategy for curating data is a key to developing a comprehensive approach to reporting and analytics. What Are Data Entities?

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What’s the Difference Between Business Intelligence and Business Analytics?

Sisense

BI lets you apply chosen metrics to potentially huge, unstructured datasets, and covers querying, data mining , online analytical processing ( OLAP ), and reporting as well as business performance monitoring, predictive and prescriptive analytics. But on the whole, BI is more concerned with the whats and the hows than the whys.

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

Jet Global

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. Unfortunately, that has come with significant challenges, including a steep learning curve and slow performance.

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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.

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Business Intelligence Solutions: Every Thing You Need to Know

FineReport

Business intelligence solutions are a whole combination of technology and strategy, used to handle the existing data of the enterprises effectively. Technicals such as data warehouse, online analytical processing (OLAP) tools, and data mining are often binding. Data visualization analysis. BI software solutions (by FineReport).