Tag: BI

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Floyd Smith. MemSQL CEO Nikita Shamgunov was featured recently on the Data Engineering Podcast with host Tobias Macey. Tobias drew out Nikita on MemSQL’s origins, our exciting present, and where we’re going in the future. We share a few highlights here, but we also urge you to listen to the full episode. The podcast covered a wide variety of topics. In this blog post, we’ll highlight Nikita’s comments on MemSQL’s origins; setting up and running the MemSQL database; typical use cases; and the future of MemSQL. How MemSQL Started Nikita grew up and was educated in ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Leo Sadovy. By now you’ve seen the headlines and the hype proclaiming data as the new oil. The well-meaning intent of these proclamations is to cast data in the role of primary economic driver for the 21st century, just as oil was for the 20th century. As analogies go, it’s not too bad, but it doesn't really hit the mark. If we were to stick with the oil/data analogy, data would not be a replacement for oil, but a co-equal partner. Allow me to offer an alternative analogy: Life. In an attempt to assess whether or ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Bryce Merkl Sasaki. By Emil Eifrem, CEO & Co-Founder, Neo4j, Inc. | December 13, 2018Reading time: 8 minutes Just yesterday, I got to announce the addition of Denise Persson – CMO at Snowflake – to the Neo4j Board of Directors.Today, I get to announce another incredibly important executive appointment: Mike Asher has joined Neo4j as our inaugural chief financial officer (CFO).Since Mike works from our global headquarters in San Mateo, California, he and I recently got to sit down for an interview. Here’s how it went.For readers who don’t know you, could you tell ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Koichi Hirao. For over three years, we have helped customers find devices that work with Azure IoT technology through the Azure Certified for IoT program and the Azure IoT device catalog. In that time, our ecosystem has grown to one of the largest in the industry with more than 1,000 devices and starter kits from over 250 partners. Today, we are taking steps to further to grow our device partner ecosystem with the release of Azure IoT certification service (AICS), a new web-based test automation workflow, which is now generally available. AICS will significantly reduce ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. re:Invent 2018 is around the corner! This year, data and analytics tracks are bigger than ever.This blog post highlights the data and analytics sessions at re:Invent 2018. If you’re attending this year, you want to check out the sessions, workshops, chalk talks, and builder sessions that we have at the conference. As in previous years, you can find these events in various topic categories, such as Analytics, Deep Learning, AI Summit, Serverless, Architecture, and Databases. We have great sessions from Intuit, Nike, Intel, WuXi NextCODE, Warner Brothers, AutoDesk, NFL, SendGrid, McDonald, AirBnB, Hilton, Guardian Life, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Microsoft Azure. This blog post was authored by Peter Cooper, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft IoT. It’s 1882. Thomas Edison has just surpassed his breakthrough invention—the first incandescent lightbulb—by collaborating with J.P. Morgan to open the first industrial-scale power station in the United States. Flash forward to today: Power generation, distribution, transmission, and consumption now drive business and modern life around the globe. The industry operates on a vast scale, with a complex web of relationships and technology that enables instant, reliable delivery throughout much of the developed world. And that grid that got its start ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Igor Bobriakov. Before we start, what is Power BI in the first place? As stated on its website: “Power BI is a suite of business analytics tools that deliver insights throughout your organization.” It is, by all means, no exhaustive definition of this instrument. The comprehensive set of features enables easy to use data import from a variety of files, simple to handle data transformations, beautiful visualizations with interactivity, and even more. Also, there are several possible ways to work with Power BI: Power BI Web, Mobile, Embedded, Desktop App. In ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. One of the most common, and arguably the most valuable, data element in any enterprise and integrated data warehouses, is time. Without time dimensions, your data lacks important context of when as well as sequence of events. In fact, analyzing data using time is quite important, so much so that we just do it naturally – even without thinking about it.  It’s evidenced by the fact that most analytics are bound by time - like hour, day, month, year, etc. Simply put: how often are you not using time in some fashion in your analytics?Though vastly important, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Ercenk Keresteci. This blog continues our coverage of the solution guide published by Microsoft’s Industry Experiences team. The guide includes the following components: Ingesting data Hot path processing Cold path processing Analytics clients We already covered the recommendation for processing data for an IoT application in the solution guide and suggested using Lambda architecture for data flow. To reiterate the data paths: A batch layer (cold path) stores all incoming data in its raw form and performs batch processing on the data. The result of this processing is stored as a batch view. It is ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . December is a huge month for us in terms of accessibility. With this release, the entire product is completely accessible for both report consumption and report creation. We are also previewing one of the most asked for features related to Q&A, support for live connect! We also have lots of smaller improvements across the product, such as customizable tooltips for buttons and a larger DAX formula bar. Here’s the complete list of December updates: Reporting Analytics Modeling Custom visuals Data connectivity Data preparation Other For a summary of the ... Read More