Incremental analytics

As a company matures, its volume of historical business data expands. This growth presents a significant challenge for the business intelligence department tasked with producing daily sales reports that must capture trends spanning years. The rising data volume increasingly delays the reporting process, impeding swift decision-making based on current financial data. The following example shows how you can avoid an increasing slowdown in reporting.

Scenario

You have accumulated shop orders over many years, with the retail channel continuously adding new order records to the orders collection throughout each trading day. You want to frequently generate a summary report so management can understand the state of the business and react to changing business trends. Over the years, it has taken increasingly longer to generate the report of all daily sums and averages because there has been increasingly more data to process each day.

From now on, to address this...