The emergence of digital applications and platforms has led to the prevalence of unstructured data, so much so that more than 80% of enterprise data is unstructured. Storing and analyzing this data is complex because it’s not machine-readable and must […]
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Astera Data Stack Wins 2023 BIG Innovation Award
In Recognition of The Team’s Creativity and Passion for Continuous Innovation Jan. 12, 2023, Westlake Village, CA — We’re pleased to announce that Astera Data Stack has been named a winner in the 2023 BIG Innovation Awards presented by the […]
Generating a Physical Database Schema Through Automated Forward Engineering
The primary purpose of your data warehouse is to serve as a centralized repository for historical data that can be quickly queried for BI reporting and analysis. Data modeling — which defines the database schema — is the heart of […]
Multi-Cloud Integration: Benefits and Best Practices
Salesforce announced its strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services in 2016. It wasn’t long before the “#1 CRM provider “went ahead and partnered with Microsoft Azure in 2019 and then soon made a deal with Alibaba Cloud to extend its […]
Designing an Automated Dimensional Model: A Step-by-Step Guide
To begin our exploration of Automated Dimensional Modeling, it’s essential to first gain an understanding of Dimensional modeling. Dimensional modeling is among the most preferred design approaches for building analytics-friendly data warehouses. First introduced in 1996, Kimball’s dimensional data models […]