On my first BI job, where I was an ETL developer, my team was using Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Service (SSRS) as a reporting tool. My job was to model the Data Marts and create the data flows into those tables. Our report analysts were good at SQL, I have even...
On one of my recent projects I was analysing my customer's data for migration. Their legacy application could handle documents. They were stored on the organisation's shared folder, and the file path was recorded in the database with the rest of data. As a part of the...
Recently I watched a webinar organised by Snowflake, it was called "Data Warehouse Automation, Ingestion and Industry Leading Analytics with Snowflake and Qlik". In the past I could never find time for webinars, and it's amazing how life can give you opportunities to...
Traditionally business intelligence is an enterprise solution, as only big businesses have multiple sources that require integration and analysis. It is assumed that the rest are small fishes that could be able to analyse their data with simpler accessible tools or...
Reporting and analytics computations are usually very resource-consuming, therefore they are never executed on the same server where the crucial business application is running. Instead, data is copied into dedicated servers to be dissected and studied for insights....
This month OptimalBI is hosting a Data Science Pioneers documentary screening. The first screening was crowded and the rest of the sessions are booking up very quickly, so you might have heard about it already. I'm guessing, the selling point (although it's completely...
Probably you know that our boss Victoria supports many digital initiatives across New Zealand. One day she has shared with us one of the latest Digital Future Aotearoa initiative called Electric Garden. This is an Internet of Things solution for garden monitoring...
We complete daily health checks for our customers and in one specific case, there is a BI tool which notifies us in case of major error, but we also have to scan logs for small errors and unhealthy processes. We check log files for errors, depending on your luck there...
The first I came across Snowflake was a few years ago when I was learning how to use Attunity Replicate, that time I established a data load into this cloud data warehouse. This time I have decided to explore what Snowflake is about. Terminology I watched some...
Here at OptimalBI we love data, and we get upset when it's only piled and doesn't produce value. Like many others who have a website, we use Google Analytics to collect its statistics. This is valuable marketing data, so we want to make use of it and help our...