Sep 26, 2022 | Azure, Azure Cosmos DB, Business Intelligence, Cloud Technology, Microsoft, Uncategorized
By: Brad Lathrop Are you exploring database options? Considering moving data to the cloud? Work for a company that utilizes a plethora of Microsoft products? If you answered yes to any of those questions, chances are you may have come across Azure Cosmos DB at...
Aug 12, 2022 | Azure, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse, Business Intelligence, Cloud Technology, Consulting, Data Visualization, Databricks, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power BI, SQL Server
By: Ken Adams Over the last number of years our company, Key2 Consulting, has seen a shift in our clients’ desires to move to the cloud. We historically were a business intelligence shop that mostly architected on-premise solutions. Creating these solutions...
Feb 23, 2022 | Business Intelligence
By: Brad Harris Are you looking for an effective data loading strategy from on-premise to Azure Data Lake services? Well we might have the solution for you. In a recent project that I was working on, our team undertook discovery to validate a...
Jul 22, 2020 | Apache Spark, Big Data, Business Intelligence
By: Ken Adams Introduction Delta Lake is an open source storage layer that sits on top of cloud storage technology such as Azure Data Lake Storage or Amazon S3. The technology was introduced by Databricks in 2019, and all of the code is available here....
Jun 26, 2020 | Analytics, Business Intelligence, COVID-19, Microsoft Power BI
By: Brad Lathrop How the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Impacting Data Industries We wrote an article earlier this year that discusses three of the most important business intelligence trends for 2020, which were derived from an excellent annual research...
Jun 26, 2020 | Apache Spark, Azure, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Cloud Technology, Microsoft Power BI
By: Phillip Sharpless Introduction to Azure Databricks Finding the right tools to manage your big data ecosystem can be a daunting task, as there seem to be a myriad of options, all advertising impressive-sounding features. One analytics platform that is...
