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Reporting Analytics vs. Financial Reporting: Is There a Difference?

Jet Global

The terms “reporting” and “analytics” are often used interchangeably. In fact there are some very important differences between the two, and understanding those distinctions can go a long way toward helping your organization make best use of both financial reporting and analytics. Financial Reporting.

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BI Cubed: Data Lineage on OLAP Anyone?

Octopai

How much time has your BI team wasted on finding data and creating metadata management reports? However, over time new technologies and tools developed to ease data reporting and analysis. This is how the Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) cube was born, which you might call one of the grooviest BI inventions developed in the 70s.

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The Future of AI in the Enterprise

Jet Global

Enterprise businesses cannot survive without robust data warehousing—data silos can rapidly devour money and resources, and any business still trying to make sense and cobble together ‘business intelligence’ from multiple reports and inconsistent data is rapidly going to lose ground to those businesses with integrated data and reporting.

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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. The SQL query language used to extract data for reporting could also potentially be used to insert, update, or delete records from the database.

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The Future of AI in the Enterprise

Jet Global

Enterprise businesses cannot survive without robust data warehousing—data silos can rapidly devour money and resources, and any business still trying to make sense and cobble together ‘business intelligence’ from multiple reports and inconsistent data is rapidly going to lose ground to those businesses with integrated data and reporting.

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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. Need a different insight or query? You’d have to put in a request.

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How gaming companies can use Amazon Redshift Serverless to build scalable analytical applications faster and easier

AWS Big Data

Consumption This pillar consists of various consumption channels for enterprise analytical needs. It includes business intelligence (BI) users, canned and interactive reports, dashboards, data science workloads, Internet of Things (IoT), web apps, and third-party data consumers.