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Business Intelligence + Big Data
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December 2013
Welcome to this month's edition of iOLAP iNSIGHTS. In this issue you will find excellent articles on several topics, including an overview of IBM's Information Management platform, some reporting design concepts for MicroStrategy, and a "how to" for loading information to Amazon Redshift.
We wish all of you a happy holiday season and a great and prosperous 2014.
The iOLAP Team
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Trends, News and SoundBytes That Caught Our Eye
 Forbes recently published an article by Gil Press that was a compilation of various surveys about the state of Big Data. It is a very informative article. Click here to get there.
Yellowfin BI announced the upcoming general availability (December 20) of Yellowfin 7, the latest version of their BI reporting and analytics tool. Click here for more information.
Business Insider published a somewhat controversial article on some comments made by Google's top futurist, Vincent Cerf, regarding information privacy. No matter your viewpoint, this one was interesting.
One of my favorite sites, Inside Analysis, posted an article on the difference between Discovery and Business Intelligence. Check it out here.
Gartner just released the agenda for their popular Business Intelligence and Analytics Summit that will be held March 31-April 2, 2014, in Las Vegas.
Back Due to Popular Demand. Last month we published an article asking if you were a manager or a leader. It is currently our most viewed article in 2013. If you missed it, click here to get to the full article again.
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An Overview of IBM's Information Management Platform for Data Warehousing and Big Data Chris Jordan, President, iOLAP, Inc.
For many of you, it is very likely you have received some level of education about IBM's Information Management solutions platform, which includes IBM's Big Data strategy. IBM's goal is to help their clients unlock the business value of data by turning it into information for competitive advantage, business optimization and improved business outcomes.
This article presents a brief summary of the scope and components of IBM's current data and information strategy which sits primarily under their Information Management brand.
Click here to read the entire article on our iOLAP blog.
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Optimal Data Mart Design for MicroStrategy Reporting Prakash Sukumar, Principal Consultant, iOLAP, Inc.
MicroStrategy prefers de-normalized snowflake schemas, but this does not mean it is always necessary to "snowflake" your dimensions. MicroStrategy architecture can work with a star schema as well.
This article presents some design considerations for MicroStrategy that includes techniques for certain situations to make MicroStrategy perform as well with a star schema as it does with snowflake schema.
Click here to read the entire article on our iOLAP blog.
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Tech Tip of the Month: Loading Data into Amazon Redshift from Amazon S3
Danijel Hafner, iOLAP, Inc.
 Amazon offers loading data to Redshift either from flat files that are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket or from Amazon DynamoDB table.
In this article, I will show you how to load data from your local machine to Amazon Redshift using the Amazon S3 service. Also, for inserting data to Amazon Redshift, I will show you how to use COPY command. Due to the number of illustrations in the article, it is only available as PDF download.
Click here to download the full PDF-formatted article.
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iOLAP is a frequent contributor to important global thought leadership on Business Intelligence and Big Data.
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