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5 Reasons to Pursue a DBA in Business Intelligence

A DBA (Doctorate of Business Administration) is a terminal degree that integrates crucial leadership skills, theoretical coursework, and applied research. It's meant for those with a business-related master's degree or MBA and keen on advancing their careers. Earning a DBA in business intelligence comes with multiple rewards. Discussed below are five reasons to pursue a DBA in business intelligence.

Snowflake Vs. Redshift: Everything You Need To Know In 2024

Whether you’re a data-driven, data-informed, or data-backed organization, your data remains your most crucial business intelligence resource. All the data you collect for later analysis needs to be stored in a secure location as well. Cloud-based data warehouses offer superior performance, flexibility, and cost benefits.

50 BI Tools You Need To Know In 2024

It’s not news anymore. More businesses are collecting a lot more data than they can handle. One out of ten respondents to surveys by IDC, Seagate, and Matillion said they were finding it hard to transform their data into an analytics-ready format. This does not have to be you. This snackable guide explains how modern business intelligence can help you make the most of your data.

The Importance Of Market Intelligence For Small Businesses

Market intelligence is the process of gathering, analyzing, and interpreting information about your market, which includes customers, competitors, and suppliers, and other industry participants such as regulators and industry associations. This information can be used to make informed business decisions, identify new opportunities, and stay ahead of the competition. In today's competitive business environment, it is more important than ever for small businesses to stay ahead of the curve. Market intelligence is essential to achieve this objective.

Maximising the potential of business intelligence with data warehouse automation

Data is a business's most valuable asset. When given the ability to harness its power, organisations can transform their data into meaningful business intelligence (BI)-and act on this to stay ahead in an ever-more competitive landscape. This is where the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) comes in. An EDW centralises and consolidates data from many sources-storing it in a denormalised structure called a star schema-making it easy to analyze, visualise, and forecast essential business metrics.

An Introduction to Apache Superset: An Open Source BI solution

With native SQL support coming to InfluxDB, we can broaden the scope of developer tools used to analyze and visualize our time series data. One of these tools is Apache Superset. So let’s break down the basics of what Superset is, look at its features and benefits, and run a quick demo of Superset in action.

7 advantages of business intelligence in the retail industry

Retailers are operating in a highly competitive and fast-paced environment, which means they are always looking for an edge over their competitors. Retail business intelligence can provide just the edge they are looking for. In this article, we'll look at the many advantages of business intelligence in the retail industry.

Strategies to Align AI Data Collection and Management with DevOps Practices

DevOps is characterized by the acceleration of processes to ensure continuous delivery without compromising high software quality. Balancing speed and quality is quite a challenging task, though. Data issues are among the most significant problems encountered by DevOps teams. These can be worse in the context of AI development, where massive amounts of data play a crucial role in machine learning.

10 Best Snowflake Monitoring Tools (Updated 2022)

The Snowflake data cloud offers powerful data warehousing, analytics, and processing tools. The platform can handle many data workloads on one platform, helping organizations turn data into actionable insight across teams, departments, and regions. Snowflake’s architecture is also unique. Compute and storage are completely independent and both are highly elastic. Yet, Snowflake's per-second billing and highly elastic compute model demand frequent usage and cost monitoring.

The Big Problem With Big Data

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