Ignite Learning Paths - Modern Data Warehouse

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About this Learning Path:

Intelligent decision making through modern data warehousing

Data is the greatest asset to a company in the process of intelligent decision making. How is my business performing? How do I get more insights to turn from a reactive approach to a pro-active and predictive scenario? TailWind Traders, is driving the digital transformation by breaking the barriers caused by data silos, and building an analytics solution. In this learning path you’ll about the journey of building out an analytics solution through modern data warehousing as a core engine to provide intelligent decision making.

Sessions

Here are all the sessions available in the learning path Intelligent decision making through modern data warehousing (aka: DATA)

DATA10: Delivering a modern data warehouse

Tailwind Traders, like many other companies is driving digital transformation to get actionable insights from their data. To drive business impact and intelligent decision making, they are taking advantage of a modern data warehouse to build a cloud-scale analytics solution.

DATA20: Ingesting data for analytics workloads

To build their analytics solution, Tailwind Traders needs to derive insights from a variety of data sources. Tailwind Traders uses Azure Data Factory to create data pipelines for data ingestion in preparation for analytics.

DATA30: Transforming and enriching data

Tailwind Traders, deals with the core issue of having to connect and relate multiple data sources. In order to be able to prepare the data for reasoning and analysis, data requires transformation and enrichment.

DATA40: Data loading best practices

Tailwind Traders data loading lends itself to a variety of data ingestion methods, each uniquely identified by the shape or structure of the data. In this session you’ll discover data loading best practices and how to optimize for parallel loads into a cloud data warehouse.

DATA50: Optimizing data warehousing query performance

To ensure optimal performance of their analytics solution and deliver insights to the entire organization, TailWind Traders implements best practices to maximize scale and throughput.

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