The Simplest Possible Analytics Architecture You Can Set Up in Less Than a Day

Set up and deploy a database, an ETL server, and automated reporting from scratch in a few hours all from your laptop.

The unbundling of analytics and database tools is creating massive confusion in the market.

Businesses want simple, impactful reporting and analytics but the journey from ‘I need analytics’ to actually getting it has become more challenging to navigate over the last several years.

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Fortunately, I’ve personally built dozens of analytics programs across multiple companies. In this article, I’m going to describe the simplest possible approach that I know of to set up and deploy a database and reporting architecture.

This approach is so simple, even non-analytics/non-technical individuals could use it to get started with their own simple data stack.

By the end of this article you will…

• Know how to set up a simple and complete analytics and database architecture from scratch.
• Know how to save you, your team, or your business thousands of dollars in software and data processing costs.
• Wildly impress your boss and your peers, especially if analytics…