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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. BI aims to deliver straightforward snapshots of the current state of affairs to business managers.

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Unleashing the power of Presto: The Uber case study

IBM Big Data Hub

They stood up a file-based data lake alongside their analytical database. While this side-by-side strategy enabled data capture, they quickly discovered that the data lake worked well for long-running queries, but it was not fast enough to support the near-real time engagement necessary to maintain a competitive advantage.

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

AWS Big Data

A key pillar of AWS’s modern data strategy is the use of purpose-built data stores for specific use cases to achieve performance, cost, and scale. Deriving business insights by identifying year-on-year sales growth is an example of an online analytical processing (OLAP) query.