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Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Meenoo Rami. In October 2018, we announced the Microsoft Higher Education Accelerator, enabling ISVs and other solution providers to quickly build industry vertical solutions tailored for higher education. Since then, we have updated the accelerator with new scenarios to help institutions transform how they engage with students and their constituents and improve student outcomes.Our latest version, now generally available, extends the Common Data Model scenarios to include new entities, sample apps, and analytics for business partner management and student accomplishments. The accelerator also includes entities around internships, scholarships, grants, and more.About the industry acceleratorOne ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Ashley Lozito; We are so excited to announce that Matillion has achieved the Amazon Redshift Ready designation, part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Ready Program. This designation recognizes that Matillion ETL, Matillion’s flagship product, has demonstrated successful integration with Amazon Redshift. Matillion ETL for Redshift is also the top-rated product in AWS Marketplace. Amazon has many partners but only some products are truly integrated with their solutions. Achieving the Amazon Redshift Ready designation differentiates Matillion as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member with a product integrating with Amazon Redshift and is generally available and fully ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Douglas Pestana - @DougVegas. Data Scientists and Analysts are starting to overflow their cups with mostly non-value added work at the request of stakeholders. And many don’t have the courage or confidence to say “No” to that. This also applies to many working and business professionals in other verticals and professions. Put simply, you need to build confidence, stop being a wimp, and start saying “No” to pointless work.Data Scientists can become the new decision-makers at companies and should be picking their own value-added projects When a company hires a data science team, the customers of that ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Fahad Zaidi. Having spent the better part of the last decade helping organisations in the U.S. and the U.K. use data to drive profit, efficiency, and performance improvements, I thought it would be helpful to jot down best practices for organizations that are looking to get the most value out of their enterprise-level financial and operational data sets. Every organisation entering the roaring 20s knows that they must use their data as a strategic differentiator to gain a competitive advantage and this article lists five things all companies must do to ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; We talk a lot about modern ETL, as opposed to the way that traditional ETL has worked since the technology emerged a few decades ago. But how has ETL actually changed? Here are a few ways in which they differ, and why it may be time to update the way you think about – and perform – ETL.   The basics of the ETL process   As its name suggests, the ETL process does three things:   It extracts raw data from multiple siloed sources.   It transforms that data to ensure consistency at its ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Leo Sadovy. Where in your business process can analytics and AI play a contributing role in enhancing your decision making capability?  At the information interpretation stage.  As a framework for understanding where analytic and AI opportunities may arise, the simple diagram below illustrates the relationships between data, information and knowledge, and how you get from one end to the other.  The key is how you come to understand the arrows (the verbs)  that link the three primary concepts (the nouns). Information is organized data.  The same data can be organized differently to yield different information sets ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Our business applications community is growing, so we needed a different venue, resulting in a new date and location for the Microsoft Business Applications Summit May 6–7, 2020 in Dallas, Texas. We hope to see you there! Everyone has data. Come to the Microsoft Business Applications Summit ­­­­ and unleash the potential. Meet other power users in your community and discover how business applications can help you tackle your business challenges and stay continuously proactive. Registration is open now, with a Pre-day opportunity on May 5th. Don’t miss out! Why you should ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Noelle Walsh. For more than a decade, Microsoft has been investing to reduce environmental impact while supporting the digital transformation of organizations around the world through cloud services. We strive to be transparent with our commitments, evidenced by our announcement that Microsoft’s cloud datacenters will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy sources by 2025. The commitments and investments we make as a company are important steps in reducing our own environmental impact, but we recognize that the opportunity for positive change is greatest by empowering customers and partners to achieve their own sustainability goals ... Read More

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Josh James. When we launched Domopalooza back in 2015, we wanted to change the BI conference experience to align with our focus on changing the conversation around BI. Given that the week-long event attracts an increasingly passionate community of customers who are building data-driven businesses, there’s no doubt that this conversation is one that gets more interesting by the year. For that reason, I cannot wait for Domopalooza 2020, which will take place March 17-20 in Salt Lake City and again serve as a showcase for how the Domo Business Cloud is the solution for companies ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We have added Capacity Health Center to the Power BI Premium capacity metrics app (version 2.0 ), making it a one-stop-shop for admins. Upon opening the report, the admin lands on a page called the “Health Center” and learns about its 3 key performance indicators(KPIs) : capacity planning, refresh wait, and query wait. These KPIs allow admins to further explore the current state of their capacity, through specific visualizations of the relevant metrics, following a troubleshooting guide to get a detailed explanation as to what the metrics mean to ... Read More