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

Jet Global

CRM software has gone through a similar transformation, starting with sales force automation, and more recently evolving into a new breed of products that support digital marketing campaigns through email, social media, and online advertising. Such BI methodologies are built on a snapshot of what happened in the past.

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What is business intelligence? Transforming data into business insights

CIO Business Intelligence

The potential use cases for BI extend beyond the typical business performance metrics of improved sales and reduced costs. BI tools could automatically generate sales and delivery reports from CRM data. A sales team could use BI to create a dashboard showing where each rep’s prospects are on the sales pipeline.

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

AWS Big Data

Suppose we have a successful ecommerce application handling a high volume of sales transactions in DynamoDB. A typical ask for this data may be to identify sales trends as well as sales growth on a yearly, monthly, or even daily basis. These types of queries require complex aggregations over a large number of records.