Blog2019-09-06T11:56:15+00:00
Dimensional Modeling is Relevant… And That’s a Fact!

In 1996, Ralph Kimball introduced the world to dimensional modeling for building data warehouses. Designed to optimize databases for storage and faster data retrieval, the bottom-up approach became quite popular. Thus, organizations increasingly started using a dimensional data model to […]

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Charting Business Value Through Data Analytics

Organizations harnessing data are 3X more likely to experience improved decision-making effectiveness. As a result, they can acquire more customers, retain them, and be more profitable. Though many organizations understand the potential that data holds and invest heavily to become […]

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Why Every University Needs a Data Warehouse
Why Every University Needs a Data Warehouse?

The role of business intelligence in higher education has amplified in recent times. Modern universities strive to leverage education analytics to efficiently manage resources, drive improvements in operational processes, and enhance the teaching and learning process. The availability of large […]

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Education Analytics Through Agile Data Warehousing
Education Analytics Through Agile Data Warehousing

Over the past decade, the education sector has been flooded with an influx of high volumes of data in varying formats. To mine this data and visualize actionable insights from it, organizations need to consolidate it and leverage education analytics […]

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Data Migration to Cloud Best Practices for 2022 and Beyond!
Data Migration to Cloud Best Practices for 2022 and Beyond!

While migrating to the cloud can provide businesses with a sustainable competitive advantage, strategy and implementation are where they can make mistakes. Over a $100 billion migration spend waste is expected in three years. This waste is majorly a result […]

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Data extraction automation
Live Q&A Session with Douglas Laney on Data Extraction Automation

Automation is transforming the modern corporate landscape, helping businesses to become faster and improve performance. It’s no surprise that the global artificial intelligence (AI) market is expected to break the $500 billion mark in 2023. AI holds the power to […]

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data-munging
What is Data Munging? Here’s Everything You Need to Know

What is Data Munging? Why is Data Munging Important? Different Stages of Data Munging Benefits of Data Munging How is Data Munging Different than ETL? Challenges of Data Munging The Need for Automation Astera ReportMiner — Your First Step to […]

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Top 10 Data Mining Techniques

Data mining is applied in numerous business areas, including operations, finance, sales and marketing, supply chain, and more. When done correctly, it offers a wealth of information that gives you a competitive edge by helping you develop better strategic decisions. […]

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PDF-Extractor
Here’s Why You Need a PDF Extractor

A PDF extraction software can help you convert unstructured data in PDF files to clean, structured data that can be stored in a data warehouse for reporting and business intelligence. The Portable Document Format files (PDFs) are easy to share […]

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Healthcare Data Analytics During The Pandemic
Healthcare Data Analytics During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Advanced healthcare data analytics have played a major role in the global fight against the coronavirus. By leveraging data during the pandemic, the healthcare sector has been able to trace the pandemic’s spread, monitor population health, predict disease severity and […]

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Creating an Effective Cloud Migration Strategy
Creating an Effective Cloud Migration Strategy Post-Pandemic

While all businesses operate in an uncertain environment to a certain degree, the level of uncertainty brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic was unprecedented. But despite the seismic shifts taking place in industries across the globe, many organizations quickly noticed […]

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Leveraging Healthcare Business Intelligence to Deliver Patient-First Care

If there’s one thing the pandemic has taught us, it’s that investing in healthcare business intelligence is essential to improve patient care that organizations deliver. With a healthcare data warehouse driving business intelligence, organizations can consolidate data from multiple endpoints […]

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Fundamentals of Healthcare Data Warehousing
A Beginner’s Guide to Leveraging a Healthcare Data Warehouse

Medical organizations are turning to massive volumes of healthcare data for addressing issues associated with care quality, healthcare costs, patient satisfaction, and operational inefficiencies. This need for healthcare analytics is driving providers to deploy healthcare data warehouses of their own. […]

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Automated Purchase Order Processing
Automated Purchase Order Processing with Astera ReportMiner

In today’s fast-paced business environment, an efficient purchase order (PO) processing system is integral to an optimal sales cycle. The quicker a business can process purchase orders, the sooner it can prepare invoice requests for payment to ensure a faster […]

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Data Warehouse Strategy
Why Automation Must Lie at the Heart of your Data Warehouse Strategy

There are a few factors that help businesses build a sustainable competitive advantage. Collecting and analyzing up-to-date enterprise data for decision-making is one of them. While there are a number of architectures that support this need, such as data lakes, […]

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