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BI Cubed: Data Lineage on OLAP Anyone?

Octopai

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. Saving time and headaches with online analytical processing tool. However, over time new technologies and tools developed to ease data reporting and analysis.

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Financial Intelligence vs. Business Intelligence: What’s the Difference?

Jet Global

This practice, together with powerful OLAP (online analytical processing) tools, grew into a body of practice that we call “business intelligence.” Past performance and current conditions are critically important; but without a view to the road ahead, business leaders risk being blindsided by unexpected developments.

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Navigating Data Entities, BYOD, and Data Lakes in Microsoft Dynamics

Jet Global

Data warehouses gained momentum back in the early 1990s as companies dealing with growing volumes of data were seeking ways to make analytics faster and more accessible. Online analytical processing (OLAP), which enabled users to quickly and easily view data along different dimensions, was coming of age.

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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

Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to process exabytes of data every day to power their analytics workloads. When using multiple statements to update or insert data, there is a risk of inconsistencies between the different operations. Amazon Redshift has recently added many SQL commands and expressions.

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How OLAP and AI can enable better business

IBM Big Data Hub

Online analytical processing (OLAP) database systems and artificial intelligence (AI) complement each other and can help enhance data analysis and decision-making when used in tandem. Customer churn prediction : OLAP can identify customers at risk of churn, enabling businesses to implement retention strategies.

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Data Model Development Using Jinja

Sisense

Data warehouses provide a consolidated, multidimensional view of data along with online analytical processing ( OLAP ) tools. OLAP tools help in the interactive and effective processing of data in a multidimensional space. Jinja provides a powerful automatic HTML escaping feature. Sandboxing.

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How to Build a Performant Data Warehouse in Redshift

Sisense

First, we’ll dive into the two types of databases: OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) and OLTP (Online Transaction Processing). So let’s dive in! OLTP vs OLAP. An OLAP database is best for situations where you read from the database more often than you write to it.