As we speak the future of cloud computing is being duked out. Amazon and Google, as well as Microsoft, Snowflake, and a few others, offer multiple cloud solutions for ...

Data Warehousing

Redshift vs. BigQuery: The Full Comparison

By Roi Avinoam on December 18, 2020

Recently, Panoply held a webinar with Nathan Patrick Taylor, the CIO of the Symphony Post Acute Network. The focus of the webinar was on what Nathan calls the ...

Data Warehousing

Webinar Recap: The Scalability Paradox with Nathan Patrick Taylor

By Anders Schneiderman on December 14, 2020

We now generate more data in an hour than we did in an entire year just two decades ago. The same old tools simply don't cut it anymore. That's why Amazon came out ...

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Top 5 Redshift Alternatives: Balancing Cost and Complexity

By Andrew Zola on November 30, 2020

The competition within the data analytics space is heating up, with all the players aim to make data collection and analysis more manageable. One of the leading ...

Data Warehousing

Top 5 BigQuery Alternatives: A Challenge of Complexity

By Andrew Zola on November 19, 2020

Until recently, data warehouses were largely the domain of big business. With a data warehouse, you could consolidate and analyze vast amounts of information, deriving ...

Data Warehousing

Understanding Data Warehouse-as-a-Service Benefits Today and Tomorrow

By Anders Schneiderman on November 17, 2020

Some people think you only need a data warehouse if you have huge amounts of data. That used to be true. It's not anymore. These days, any business that uses Salesforce, ...

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5 Reasons You Need a Data Warehouse

By Anders Schneiderman on July 21, 2020

You need a data warehouse, but a data warehouse is worth nothing if it doesn’t contain - data! The first step to start seeing benefits from your data warehouse is to ...

Data Warehousing

Views: The Key to a Successful ELT Data Warehouse

By Anders Schneiderman on July 14, 2020

Why Your Shopify Data Needs a Warehouse A data warehouse is a place to store data solely for the purpose of analysis. That may not seem that interesting—and it isn’t—but ...

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Shopify Business Intelligence And Data Warehousing Step-by-Step

By Belma Mesihovic on June 23, 2020

Your company has reached the point where the only way to analyze your data - on the scale needed for your business to succeed - is to build or buy a data warehouse. How ...

Data Warehousing

How to Estimate Cloud Data Warehouse Costs and Pricing Comparison

By Roi Avinoam on May 19, 2020

Salesforce is a powerful tool for managing your sales processes. But if you're serious about using your business data to drive your organization, at some point you're ...

Data Warehousing

How to Build a Data Warehouse for Salesforce without Breaking the Bank

By Anders Schneiderman on May 5, 2020

MySQL is one of the more popular flavors of SQL-based databases, especially when it comes to web applications. Owned by Oracle, MySQL is free and open source, so it’s a ...

Databases

MySQL as a Data Warehouse: is it really your best option?

By Peter Weinberg on October 10, 2019

An analytics database (usually read-only) serves as the data repository used for the sole purpose of analytics in an organization. Since its primary aim is business ...

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Top 4 Analytics Databases (SQL & NoSQL): The Best and the Fastest

By Temilade Adefioye Aina on May 2, 2019

So. You run a business that lives on data. You’ve got a SQL-style relational database or two up and running to store your data, but your data keeps growing and you’re ...

Data Warehousing

Redshift vs Postgres: Differences in Performance, Functions, and Cost

By Peter Weinberg on April 24, 2019

Contemporary society generates, uses, and retains amounts of data that would be considered huge—if not unimaginable—by any earlier standard. Yet IDC expects the size of ...

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Key Data Warehouse Trends Every Analyst Should Know

By Bill Kleyman on January 29, 2019

Cloud-based data warehouses are quickly replacing their on-premise counterparts, allowing organizations with big data needs to potentially save millions in costs. Amazon ...

Data Warehousing

Setting Up A Cloud Data Warehouse: A Schema To SQL Tutorial

By Peter Weinberg on January 17, 2019

Amazon Redshift is a massively popular data warehouse service that lives on their AWS platform, making it easy to set up and run a data warehouse. Redshift clusters can ...

Data Warehousing

Set up Your First AWS Redshift Database: A Schema to SQL Tutorial

By Peter Weinberg on January 10, 2019

In today's world, data warehouses are the foundation of business intelligence.

Data Warehousing

How to Successfully Implement a Data Warehouse

By Eric Boersma on November 2, 2018

Data mining is the process of deriving business insights from large or complex data sets, while data warehouses are typically the storage and processing infrastructure ...

Data Warehousing

How Your Data Warehouse Can Make Data Mining Easier and More Efficient

By Marissa Ramirez on October 10, 2018

Data. It’s the word that that results in billion dollar valuations, that drives industries, that creates new revenue streams, and that has introduced a “New Economy” ...

Data Warehousing

Why ETL software and Data Warehousing Are Foundational to Modern Analytics

By Marissa Ramirez on October 2, 2018

So you’ve heard of a data warehouse, but now what? Do you need one? How can a data warehouse work for you and your business? We’ll look into the basics of a data ...

Data Warehousing

What is a Data Warehouse? A tutorial for beginners

By Jason Harris on September 20, 2018

We’re really beginning to experience another industrial revolution. That is, we’re actively entering into the ‘Age of Data.’ As you look at your own life, business, and ...

Data Warehousing

Data Warehouse Examples: Applications In The Real World

By Bill Kleyman on August 23, 2018

As a company formed by data engineers and analysts, we at Panoply love data in all its forms! But when you’re working with different types of data storage and processing ...

Data Warehousing

How to Tell the Difference between a Database and a Data Warehouse

By An Bui on July 26, 2018

Data as a Service (BDaaS) is a reality today. Increasing cloud usage, and new cloud services, mean you can set up data infrastructure that just works—without maintaining ...

Data Warehousing

Data Platform As A Service: IaaS, PaaS And SaaS

By An Bui on June 26, 2018

Just ten years ago, even the most advanced analytics professionals only had to manage a handful of data sources. But data volume, velocity, and variety are now ...

Data Warehousing

Data Warehousing Concepts: Everything You Need to Know in 4 Minutes

By An Bui on May 16, 2018

Humans are visually motivated. When we see a movie, we’re drawn to the most beautiful and exotic settings, the most striking and recognizable actors, the biggest ...

Data Warehousing

Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Meet: Magic Ensues

By An Bui on April 19, 2018