Category: Analytics
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Setting up tools to work with HDInsights and run Hive Queries – Azure Data Lake Tools and Azure Storage Browser
Two tools that are going to make life a bit simpler if you are going to be working with HDInsights and Azure blog storage are “Azure Data Lake and Stream Analytic Tools for Visual Studio” and Azure Storage Browser. Azure Data Lake and Stream Analytic Tools for Visual Studio To run Hive Queries, you’re going…
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Big Data for The Rest of Us. Affordable and Modern Business Intelligence Architecture – Adding Lifecycles to your S3 buckets to save cost and retain data forever!
I wanted to keep this post short since as I mentioned in the previous post about cloud storage, our use case is already an affordable one, but it still makes sense to touch on some of the file movement strategy to other tiers of storage to make sure we are maximizing our cost saving vs.…
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Big Data for The Rest of Us. Affordable and Modern Business Intelligence Architecture – Auto uploading and syncing your data using AWS S3
The first process in any data warehouse project is obtaining the data into a staging environment. In the traditional data warehouse, this required an ETL process to pick up data files from a local folder or FTP, and in some cases, a direct SQL connection to source systems to then load into a dedicated staging…
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The Modern Data warehouse; The low-cost solution using Big Data with HDInsight and PowerShell
Organizations have been reluctant to transition their current business intelligence solutions from the traditional data warehouse infrastructure to big data for many reasons, but there are two reasons that are false barrier to entries, cost and complexity of provisioning environments. In the post below, we will cover how to use PowerShell to commission and decommission…
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Bridging the Owner to Property Manager Data Gap
One of the more common reoccurring problems seen in the real estate space is the disconnect between the data created and stored by the individual property managers and the transfer of that very data to the respective owners, operators and fund managers. In most scenarios, individual property managers are using management and accounting tools of…
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Accelerating the Staging Process for your Data Warehouse
Real Estate Data Warehouse – Accelerating the Staging Process The script below can be used to build a staging environment for any sort of industry and not just real estate related databases. The specifics of a RE Data warehouse will be covered in future blog post. It will allow you to Accelerating the Staging Process for…
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Creating Embedded Yardi SSRS Reports Tutorial
In previous posts we covered topics such as getting your data out of Yardi using the FTP method and the Log shipping method to facilitate building your own custom reports outside of the tool and being able to combine the data with other operational data sources. The tool comes with a comprehensive set of reports…
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Automate your Real Estate Software – Yardi ETL and Automation
Interesting in learning how to Automate your Real Estate Software – Yardi ETL and Automation. This blog post will help you drive your CRE business forward. When running your Real Estate business, it helps to not have to think about the small things. This is where process automation can help free up time for your…
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Real Estate Data Analytics Tenant Analytics – Tenant Analytics and Boosting your Cap Rate per Unit
Do you own a few rental properties or a multi-family unit? Do you know your best tenant? Is it the tenant that pays slightly lower than market rent but always pays on time? Is it the tenant that pays above market rent but seems to have some sort of maintenance request every other month? Maybe…
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Getting Data from Yardi Log Shipping Part 2
Until recently obtaining data externally from Yardi was reserved to two methods. The first was via a nightly backup of the database or if you were paying for private cloud, then the second was via direct SQL query access over VPN. Both worked very well but both also had some minor flaws. We also have…