Now that we have already looked at what NoSQL is, let us try to look into the classifications of NoSQL in this part. There are 4 basic types of NoSQL and the same are listed below: Key-value: These are the simplest form of NoSQL databases. Every entry is stored as a key-value pair. Examples of […]

NoSQL is something that we hear about a lot these days. In a series of articles, I will try to highlight what, when and why we need NoSQL solutions. Also there are several NoSQL options available in Azure. We will try to explore each of these and try to understand when to use which solution. […]

Businesses spend 5-10% of revenues on reaching, winning and retaining customers.  The conversion rates and return on spend is typically low.  Customer acquisition and retention are one of Financial Services Industry’s biggest problems. Fiind Product from iLink’s partner Fiind, Inc provides a Smart Prospecting Platform to enrich the prospect information in Financial Services Companies’ CRM […]

Industry accepted definition of a data warehouse is – “a subject oriented, integrated, nonvolatile, time variant collection of data for management’s decision making”. Bill Inmon and Ralph Kimball approached the data warehouse architecture differently. Bill Inmon advocated the approach of creating a “Single version of Truth” Data warehouse where as Ralph Kimball took the “Dimensional […]

In Gartner survey, more Microsoft customers said True Cost of Ownership (TCO) was their #1 reason for selecting Microsoft as their BI vendor. In Microsoft’s current offering in the market, SQL Server 2008 R2 combined with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 offer rich capabilities as part of Microsoft’s BI stack. In the IT managed BI […]