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A Guide To Starting A Career In Business Intelligence & The BI Skills You Need

Data Pine

A working understanding of cloud computing and data visualization. A data scientist has a similar role as the BI analyst, however, they do different things. While analysts focus on historical data to understand current business performance, scientists focus more on data modeling and prescriptive analysis.

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The Data Journey: From Raw Data to Insights

Sisense

Traditionally all this data was stored on-premises, in servers, using databases that many of us will be familiar with, such as SAP, Microsoft Excel , Oracle , Microsoft SQL Server , IBM DB2 , PostgreSQL , MySQL , Teradata. However, cloud computing has grown rapidly because it offers more flexible, agile, and cost-effective storage solutions.