Tag: reporting

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) is the process that has been used to share data between applications, transactional systems, and data warehouses for decades.  It essentially works like this; you define an integration, pull the data out of the source system, use some mapping and aggregation rules to transform the data into the format needed by the target system and then you load (save) the data in the target system’s database.ETL Hell While this process seems simple and intuitive, it has a few problems that are leading many companies to question the sustainability of the ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Matthew Gierc. As any good tradesperson knows, you need the right tool for the job. Just ask someone who’s used a screwdriver to assemble furniture how much they would pay for a power drill.The same holds true for working with data.Today, many companies dive into machine learning, advanced analytics, or other buzzword-heavy projects with the goal of getting ahead of competitors. But without a solid understanding of what data can do for their organization, how to effectively store and harness that data, and a strategic, deliberate approach to such endeavors, their efforts may cause ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: letha-wicker; The event formerly known as IBM Analytics University is happening again this fall. Join us at the Data and AI Forum on October 21–24 in Miami, Florida. Here’s a preview of what you can get out of this exciting event.For 2019, we’ve expanded the curriculum to include the entire IBM Data and AI portfolio. The event is designed to help companies on their journey to AI.  With more than 130 sessions – including keynotes, breakout sessions, technical sessions, and hands-on labs across five distinct tracks – you’ll have ample ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Joe Furbee. Editor’s note: This is the first article in a series by Conor Hogan, a Solutions Architect at SAS, on SAS and database and storage options on cloud technologies. This article covers the SAS offerings available to connect to and interact with the various database options available in Amazon Web Services. As companies move their computing to the cloud, they are also moving their storage to the cloud. Just like compute in the cloud, data storage in the cloud is elastic and responds to demand while only paying for what you use. As more technologies ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: modern.data. [This article was first published on R – Modern Data, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Creating an effective, informative, and aesthetically appealing report to showcase your data can be tedious: it’s often difficult to display your data and your plots together in an uncluttered manner, and even harder to implement interactivity between the individual elements. Dash for R facilitates this task, providing an intuitive way to ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Continuent; Overview The Skinny Clustering provides high availability and disaster recovery, along with the ability to read-scale both locally and globally. Some clusters even provide active/active capabilities, which others have a single master. Real time database replication is a must for clustering and other key business purposes, like reporting. There are a number of replication technologies available for MySQL, and some are even bundled into various solutions. When choosing a replication methodology, it is paramount to understand just how the data moves from source to target. In this blog post, we will examine how asynchronous, synchronous, ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Chris Hemedinger. I'm old enough to remember when USA Today began publication in the early 1980s. As a teenager who was not particularly interested in current events, I remember scanning each edition for the USA Today Snapshots, a mini infographic feature that presented some statistic in a fun and interesting way. Back then, I felt that these stats made me a little bit smarter for the day. I had no reason to question the numbers I saw, nor did I have the tools, skill or data access to check their work. Today I still enjoy the ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Chris Lema; Adding more sales channels to your business model can create inventory management headaches. When you sell on multiple online marketplaces, you may have to maintain numerous inventory systems. In a worst-case scenario, you’re keeping track of your inventory manually, using spreadsheets.This leads to headaches. Inventory records for multi-channel retailers are, on average, accurate just 63% of the time. This is a major factor in why 29% of multi-channel retailers have trouble accurately promising fulfillment. Moreover, poor inventory management spells trouble for your profitability, customer experience, overhead, and shrinkage, all of which eat into your ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Tim O'Reilly. Broken screen (source: Pixabay) This post originally published on Quartz. It’s a nerve-wracking time to be a Big Tech company. Yesterday, a US subcommittee on antitrust grilled representatives from Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple in Congress, and presidential candidates have gone so far as to suggest that these behemoths should be broken up. In the European Union, regulation is already happening: in March, the EU levied its third multibillion-dollar fine against Googlefor anti-competitive behavior. In his 2018 letter to shareholders, published this past April, Jeff Bezos was already prepping for conversations with ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: aliye-ozcan; Nearly every business is under competitive, disruptive, and regulatory pressures. As companies face digital transformation and modernization to meet their customers’  expectations, leveraging data and AI at the speed of business can be the biggest differentiator.However, according to MIT Sloan, 81 percent of organizations don’t understand their data because it’s locked in silos. Much of the data remains inaccessible, untrusted or unanalyzed, providing little-to-no value. Cloud and mobile adoption has accelerated the pace of data creation and increased the number of locations where data can reside. Yet many businesses ... Read More