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Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. I sometimes get asked from customers if they should use a star schema or should they use one large single table/flatfile for their dataset in Power BI. The answer is almost always star schema, and Patrick LeBlanc does a great job explaining what a star schema is and why star schemas are so important for Power BI in his video Why Power BI loves a Star Schema. I wanted to list out his four reasons: Usability: If you have just one large table with all the data, when creating a report it is ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . The growing numbers of European businesses leveraging hybrid multicloud environments are often watching costs spiral beyond expectations and sooner rather than later must face the reality that they are spawning new types of data silos.During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, organisations were focused foremost on enabling remote workers and quickly spinning up services in the cloud to ensure continuing operations. Now, planning for a post-pandemic world, they are struggling to come to grips with the inefficiencies that can accompany use of multiple public clouds.Public cloud providers tend to have specific strengths for particular workloads, ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . If you asked IT and business executives to name some of the items on their lists of priorities for this year, there's a good chance "add more automation" would be one of them. Automating processes to complete tasks more quickly and accurately and at the same time reduce costs, has taken on even greater significance during the Covid-19 pandemic. Technologies such as robotic process engineering (RPA), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and others are gaining traction in many enterprises as they look to achieve their automation goals. An emerging concept that combines these tools to ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . COVID-19 struck IT like a tsunami in early 2020, sweeping away long-established operations and processes, forcing CIOs to quickly identify and deploy acceptable alternatives. Now, as the virus threat appears to be gradually receding, IT leaders are viewing a radically transformed landscape, wondering how essential operations and practices will fit into a “new normal” business world.The pandemic reshaped enterprises in an almost endless number of ways. IT, too, has felt the impact, leaving CIOs to wonder how their departments will cope with and function in a post-virus world. With basic changes already appearing, here’s a look ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Open source has been a perennial hot topic for well over 20 years, ever since the Linux penguin sought to befriend everyone from the enterprise, SMEs and the media, with its happy story of data democratisation and an end to expensive and difficult to bend proprietary systems.No doubt captivated by this long-held dream, analysts report many more organisations moved to embrace open source last year in response to the sudden explosion of unique digital problems which they hoped to solve using broader communities of developers, ideally for less cost.But just like the conversation as to whether ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . The Insider Pro and Computerworld survey of more than 1,100 IT professionals reveals salary trends for a wide range of tech job titles from CIO and other leadership roles to middle management to non-management roles.We share how your job title, experience, and gender affect your compensation plan. And reveal whether having certifications will help you land a job, pay rise or promotion.We also asked the 503 respondents who identified themselves as managers about their hiring plans in terms of budget and most-in-demand skillsets. Unsurprisingly, the top IT skills in demand this year will be application development, ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . “COVID-19 has escalated digital initiatives into digital imperatives,” analyst firm, Gartner, noted in describing how leaders need to rethink how an organisation approaches the years ahead.It’s true that enterprises are having to rapidly grapple with this issue; KPMG has noted that by 2022, 80 per cent of revenue growth will depend on digital offerings and operations. For CIOs, the need to undertake digital transformation is a challenge that they face in the immediate term; not just for “keeping the lights on” and allowing work to continue through the pandemic, but rather to also drive competitive advantage ... Read More

Feed: Databasejournal.com - Feature Database Articles. Author: . Azure offers diverse backup capabilities, spanning a wide range of on-premises and cloud-based workloads. These capabilities include a number of options to perform backups of SAP HANA running in Azure virtual machines (VMs). The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of these options. Traditionally, these options could be grouped into two main categories. The first one relied on Azure Backup while the other comprised third-party Marketplace offerings. Azure NetApp Files, which became generally available at the end of May 2019, could be potentially viewed as third category. While this ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. This is a syndicated post, view the original post here Did you read the one about records? The article about code review antipatterns? Elasticsearch? How about the listing of the 25 greatest Java applications ever written—from Minecraft to the U.S. National Security Agency’s Ghidra? Lambda expressions, anyone? These were the 10 stories that were most widely read. We hope you will enjoy spending a few minutes revisiting the best of 2020. #1 The 25 greatest Java apps ever written From space exploration to genomics, from reverse compilers to robotic controllers, Java is at the ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. This is a syndicated post, view the original post here "Converged charging” unlocks 5G business potential for service providers and their partners. The hype around 5G is all about network speeds. But communications service providers know that a different kind of speed is even more important: speed of innovation. 5G will help service providers get new products out faster for both consumer and enterprise customers. Service providers won’t be able to get the full revenue benefits of innovation, however, without charging systems—the software that handles how much to charge customers for service—that can keep ... Read More