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Multidimensional Data Analytics Services
August 04, 2021

Getting More from Your Multidimensional Data & Analytics Services

by Jerod Johnson

Getting More from Your Multidimensional Data Analytics Services As data becomes more complex, organizations are increasingly adopting multidimensional data solutions to drive deeper analytics and gain actionable insights across the business. Multidimensional data boasts the benefits of gro...

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Enabling Self Service BI and Analytics Through Cloud Data Connectivity
August 02, 2021

Enabling Self Service BI and Analytics Through Cloud Data Connectivity

by Jerod Johnson

Analytics and business intelligence platforms have evolved to provide self-service usage for line of business users to gain insights through data visualization and reporting. With modern BI tools, every stakeholder can create charts, reports, and dashboards from their business data. And t...

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Support DataOps Agility with Data APIs
July 23, 2021

Support DataOps Agility with Data APIs

by Eric Madariaga

Data fragmentation has become a major roadblock for many enterprises on their journey to digital transformation. Gaining business insights from data is more crucial than ever, but as cloud-based infrastructure that data has become more decentralized and difficult to manage. Data virtualiz...

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July 22, 2021

Reverse ETL with Salesforce and SQL Server

by Haley Burton

As data usage grows many organizations turn to data warehousing in order to consolidate data for analytics, reporting, governance and decision support. Modern warehousing solutions are flexible, faster, more scalable, and more economical than ever before. But data warehousing is not witho...

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July 15, 2021

Future-Proof Your Salesforce Integrations with CData

by Jerod Johnson

The use of APIs is growing exponentially. According to Programmable Web, a directory of public APIs, the volume of public APIs has grown from fewer than 500 to more than 24,000 from 2008 to 2021. That is staggering growth, and the pace of API innovations show no signs of slowing down. Wha...

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ETL and ELT
July 06, 2021

ETL vs. ELT: Which is better? 6 key differences

by Alex Pauncz

To bring their diffuse data into their data warehouse, organizations typically leverage an ETL or ELT process using a dedicated data pipeline. In this article, we define and compare the six main differences between ETL and ELT processes to help you determine which is right in various data integration scenarios.

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June 30, 2021

3 Integration Strategies for Data Analytics and Business Intelligence

by Haley Burton

When freely available to your key stakeholders, data can give you a 360-degree view of your customers and your enterprise to help you make solid business decisions. To make the most of their data, organizations need to invest in data connectivity infrastructure. Integration Options for th...

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June 25, 2021

Too Much Data in Your Warehouse for Power BI – Now What?

by Jerod Johnson

As more organizations lean into data-driven digital transformation efforts, lines of business are increasingly demanding access to their data to gain actionable insights into performance and business health. In previous articles, we've discussed how consolidating your disparate data into ...

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data warehouse
June 22, 2021

6 Best Data Warehousing Solutions for BI & Analytics

by Haley Burton

Data warehousing is a popular, powerful way to overcome data fragmentation challenges. At a high level, the process involves two steps. First, you must centralize data generated by your enterprise applications and systems into a common data warehouse. Then, you give your data analysts and decision-makers unified access to that data so they may perform analytics processes using their chosen data analytics tools.

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