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Taking in the View at the Data Lakehouse

March 5, 2021

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by: Renee Miller

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Tags: Data Lake, Data Lakehouse, Data Warehouse

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Categories: Business Intelligence, Databases, Uncategorized

If you’re looking to modernize your data, there’s no avoiding the lake analogies. So we figured we’d jump right into the Data Lake, Data Warehouse, and the brew of both: Data Lakehouse. Join us as we explain what they mean for the uninitiated.    What is a data lake? Simplified, it’s the storage where data [...]

Hunters Eat Better Than Gatherers

May 17, 2017

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by: Phil Goerdt

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Categories: Analytics, Business Intelligence, IT Management

Hunters Eat Better Than Gatherers

My last few blog posts have discussed how data failure happens, and how we can change failure into success (with a little economic thinking). Continuing with that train of thought, in this post I’ll be discussing how we can better implement analytic solutions by challenging the convention of requirements gathering. Don’t “Gather Requirements”. Hunt for […]

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Cloud…

March 17, 2017

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by: Stewart Bryson

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Categories: Analytics, BICS, Business Intelligence, Cloud, OBIEE, ORACLE BICS, Oracle DV

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Cloud…

Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) is generally available (GA) today, and I’m excited to be included in this OAC blog hop welcome wagon. So I’m slumming it with a bunch of Essbase professionals, as you can see from the list of contributing authors below. It’s fascinating to see just how stoked the Essbase community is for […]

Got Technology, Need Data? Here’s Where to Get It…For Free

November 30, 2016

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by: Kathryn Watson

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Categories: Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Integration, Data Visualization, General, Tips

Got Technology, Need Data? Here’s Where to Get It…For Free

The Data Challenge Have you ever wanted to assess or explore a new BI, analytics, data visualization, data science, etc. technology, but struggled to find a data set to use for your assessment and exploration activities? Have you grown tired of analyzing the “typical” datasets–think census, stock market, and employment and inflation rate data–known to be publicly available? […]

Keeping Tabs on Tableau

October 31, 2016

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by: GregSuk

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Categories: Business Intelligence, Data Visualization, Excel, Tableau

Tableau has been around for awhile now and is sort of the “name brand” when referring to new cloud and lightweight BI platforms. Given its stature I thought I would download the newest version (Tableau 10), kick the tires, and see what it’s all about. You can download a free trial and test it for [...]