Analytics query accelerators provide SQL or SQL-like query support on a broad range of data sources. They are most frequently used as a means of providing interactive and production-optimized delivery on semantically flexible data stores that do not inherently have the capabilities to provide sufficient performance or ease of use on their own. Commonly used in conjunction with data lakes, they aim to support BI dashboards, interactive query capabilities, data modeling and other analytics use cases.
Analytics and business intelligence platforms — enabled by IT and augmented by AI — empower users to model, analyze and share data. Analytics and business intelligence (ABI) platforms enable organizations to understand their data. For example, what are the dimensions of their data — such as product, customer, time, and geography? People need to be able to ask questions about their data (e.g., which customers are likely to churn? Which salespeople are not reaching their quotas?). They need to be able to create measures from their data, such as on-time delivery, accidents in the workplace and customer or employee satisfaction. Organizations need to blend modeled and nonmodeled data to create new data pipelines that can be explored to find anomalies and other insights. ABI platforms make all of this possible.