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Business intelligence enhances how an organisation approaches its decision-making and its adoption to data. Business intelligence allows companies to use their data to answer questions of the company's past and allowing them to make decisions for the future. A data warehouse is used to store the historic data in a structure that will allow for easy reporting and data retrieval.
In today’s world data is all around us and businesses are overflowing with different types of data. In most cases the business doesn’t know how to use it to their advantage. Datahub can help with this. Typical examples of data that an organisation could have, that can help with their data driven future:
To get the competitive advantage organisations will want to utilise all the data available and connect it together in one model to form a picture, tell a story about how the organisation has performed in the past. From this, organisations will understand what was done well, what can be done better.
Today, everybody expects data to be available whether it be in a work environment or in general life. The average person will want to do online banking from any location, they want their personalised music play list available on any device. Or get shopping preferences when they visit a store.
It’s the same for businesses, users will want data available anytime, anywhere, on any device. This is where business intelligence can help an organisation.
There is the more traditional business intelligence design that utilises a data warehouse. In this design the historic data is transformed and moved to the data warehouse using ETL tools. This design will typically include:
Another option is using “serverless pools” where the data will always reside in the data lake (OneLake), and the data is queried from the lake. In this approach the data is never remodelled and loaded into the data warehouse.
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In the lake the data can be in many different formats, and the serverless database engine will provide the same functionality as using a data warehouse. There are pros and cons to each design approach, and Datahub can advise on the best solution for each individual project.
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Having a business intelligence solution is a big financial investment for any organisation, so the approach is key to the success of the project. Datahub will always start with a planning phase. Understanding your business, your data, and your requirements. We will look at your key performance indicators, what you report on now, and what you would like to report on in the future.
During this planning phase we document the requirements so that this is clear and transparent to your leadership team. This document will also allow our architectural team to present back a solution.
Our consultants are Experts in Business Intelligence solutions and can help you with a plan and roadmap. Contact us for an initial conversation.
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