Organizations are looking for best-of-breed solutions to tackle data challenges. While lots of organizations are using SAP HANA for reporting and analyzing SAP ECC or SAP S/4HANA data, ‘data lakes’ are often used in parallel for other use cases. Data Lakes are ideal for storing large volumes of information in a cost-effective way. In an […]
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Loading Mechanisms Part 1
Introduction As there are huge amounts of data available within companies, data is also moved in increasing quantities from one data storage to another for multiple reasons. As copying data can come with a longer load time and higher costs, you want to make this process as efficient as possible. Luckily, there are multiple loading […]
Standardize your data models with Azure Synapse Lake Database Templates
A lot of companies struggle with the same issue: departments are operating in siloes. These siloes have all their own terms, concepts, definitions and data. When management wants to get a clear overview of all the available data and introduce company-wide reporting, they hit a roadblock. The data is not easily combined into a data […]
Monitoring Power BI usage metrics using Azure Data Factory
When you have Power BI integrated into your company, it is very important that the tenant of the Power BI service is managed well. But how do you do this? How do you measure which reports are consumed the most, which datasets are used the most, which employees are the most active on Power BI? […]
The Journey of attaining the Azure Data Engineer certificate
Introduction On February 23, 2021, Microsoft released a new beta certification exam, Exam DP-203: Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure. It is replacing the exams DP-200: Implementing an Azure Data Solution, and DP-201: Designing an Azure Data Solution. These previous exams DP-200 and DP-201 will retire on June 30, 2021. When passing the two old exams […]
Microsoft Ignite – The official Lytix Recap
Microsoft Ignite, the most prominent technology innovation event of the year, hosted by Microsoft, is just around the corner. There has been a lot going on during the past week: this 2021 edition was full of surprises and had some amazing announcements in store. Who else than Lytix to keep you up-to-date with the most […]
Things to consider when creating a Data Lake
Have you wondered what a data lake is? What are typical use cases for this lake? How can you benefit from a data lake are? In this blog post, we will show you the added value of a data lake while pointing-out some pitfalls and best-practices. Before diving into data lakes (ba-dum-tsss), let us start […]
Azure Synapse Analytics
Organizations understand the value of data more than ever. A Data Warehouse as a single source of truth, a data lake to store data for analytical exploration, self-service tools for data transformation, visualisation, and consumption as well as clusters to process immense data volumes. All these different use cases require other specialised tools resulting in […]
How ALM streamlines BI projects: Azure DevOps
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) refers to a (software) development process which has been setup in a governed and easy-to-manage way. ALM provides added value to the development team, project managers and the business users. While ‘ALM’ is mostly coined by pure software development projects (…written in 100% programming languages), BI projects (which are by nature […]
Managed Big Data: DataBricks, Spark as a Service
The title accompanying this blog post is quite the mouth full. This blog post will explain why you should be using Spark. If a use case would make sense, then we will introduce you to the DataBricks product, which is available on Azure. Being recognised as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant, emphasizes the operational […]
