Tag: business intelligence

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Scott Resch. Tom Stanek has been working with retailers for years. But like all of us, he’s never seen or experienced anything like COVID-19. So, what does the president of RXA—a leading Domo implementation and consulting firm that has serviced more than 7,000 retail locations across North America, Europe, and Asia—believe this moment could mean for an industry he knows so much about? Not what you might think. “Right now is an opportunity for retailers to gain new customers,” Tom said during a Domo-sponsored, “Get Leverage” webinar last week. “It’s a restart.” If that take surprises ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; This month, Marvin Mayorga of Data Meaning explains how the boom in data analytics is changing the makeup of the modern data team. A few years ago, the term “data analyst” was an apt enough description for anyone capable of crunching through data on an Excel spreadsheet. Identifying recurring data sets equated to deriving insights. But these insights were, at best, business suggestions with shallow depth. The rise of the modern data analytics industry Today, on the backdrop of what can be best described as a cataclysmic evolution of technology, the once limited and conservative ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Danny Sandwell. Data modeling supports collaboration among business stakeholders – with different job roles and skills – to coordinate with business objectives.Data resides everywhere in a business, on-premise and in private or public clouds. And it exists across these hybrid architectures in different formats: big and unstructured and traditional structured business data may physically sit in different places.What’s desperately needed is a way to understand the relationships and interconnections between so many entities in data sets in detail.Visualizing data from anywhere defined by its context and definition in a central model repository, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. You can integrate your Amazon SageMaker ML models with Amazon QuickSight to analyze augmented data and use it directly in your business intelligence dashboards. As a business analyst or data engineer you can leverage SageMaker and perform ML inference on your data and visualize on QuickSight with just a few click. QuickSight does the heavy lifting and removes the need to setup complex ETL to process data in and out of SageMaker and QuickSight. You can simply bring in your data sets into QuickSight and use Amazon SageMaker models within the QuickSight interface for different use cases, ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Dave Wells. Dave Wells Alation, data architect, data architecture, data catalog, data governance, data management May 21, 2020— A Data Architect’s Guide to the Data CatalogModernizing data architecture is one of the key challenges for those organizations pursuing the advantages of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Data architecture for Business Intelligence (BI) was really quite simple when compared with the complex architecture that is needed today. BI data architecture focused primarily on how to acquire, organize, integrate, store, and access data. Acquisition and integration were based primarily on batch ETL, organization, and storage on relational ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; We recently announced general availability of Matillion ETL for Azure Synapse. This version of Matillion ETL is purpose-built to work with Azure Synapse Analytics, which is now available for public preview. You may be familiar with Matillion ETL for Snowflake on Microsoft Azure, or you may have experience with Azure SQL Data Warehouse. What is Azure Synapse Analytics, and how does it differ from Azure SQL Data Warehouse, other Microsoft data offerings, and other cloud data warehouses? Let’s take a look.  Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now Azure Synapse Analytics Simply put, Azure Synapse Analytics ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Hi everyone! You asked for the sessions and we’ve delivered! The recent Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2020 digital event, had some of the most inspiring Power BI sessions to date and they’re now available for your viewing pleasure! We’ve attempted to put a consolidated list of Power BI and Power Platform sessions for you as a quick reference. Reminder! There will be more pre-recorded sessions available at the end of May. The links will be added to the list once they are available. Scroll down to see the James Phillips ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Danish Wadhwa. If yes, then you need to understand your data because the business requirements keep on changing. This is where business intelligence software like Power BI comes into play.Now the point is that; Is Microsoft Power BI can help you pluck yourself and your business to reach its heights?Well! Power BI is a business intelligence tool by using which you can easily analyze, aggregate, share and visualize data without any hassle. It’s easy to use interface allows the users, including non-techies, to maintain and analyze data and reports appropriately in less time.To learn ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Roxanna Pourzand. You can now validate the hardware and software environment for MemSQL, before you install the software. As you may already know, the MemSQL-Report module within MemSQL Tools allows you to run health checks on your database. The new functionality in MemSQL-Report lets you run environment validation checks – before you install MemSQL. These checks ensure that machines are appropriately configured for the best performance of the database, and the least likelihood of future problems.  MemSQL is a high-performance database; it ingests data rapidly, and supports workloads that require fast transaction processing, low query latency, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Nancy Tandy. As a business owner, you think strategically. You invested in Microsoft Dynamics 365 because you wanted to connect data and business intelligence across your teams and to use artificial intelligence for insights that can help you drive business decisions. But consider, do your employees have the skills they need to take advantage of the powerful set of business applications you've invested in? With Dynamics 365 training and skills, your workforce can better help you realize the technology's full potential and maximize your ROI.These days, everyone's talking about the digital transformation of business, ... Read More