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A global logistics company wants to optimize its supply chain by gaining end-to-end visibility into its operations, from inventory levels to shipment tracking and delivery. They need to integrate data from various disparate systems, analyze it to identify bottlenecks, and make data-driven decisions. Which Google Cloud solution is best suited to help them achieve this comprehensive data integration and analytics goal?

  1. ACloud Functions for executing small, event-driven code snippets.
  2. BBigQuery and Looker for data warehousing and business intelligence.
  3. CGoogle Workspace for enhancing internal communication.
  4. DCloud CDN for content delivery acceleration.
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Correct answer: B. BigQuery and Looker for data warehousing and business intelligence.

BigQuery for data warehousing and Looker for business intelligence directly address the need to integrate data from various systems, analyze it for bottlenecks, and make data-driven decisions to optimize the supply chain.

Why the other options are wrong

  • A. Cloud Functions are for specific event-driven tasks, not a comprehensive solution for large-scale data integration and business intelligence.
  • C. Google Workspace is for collaboration, not data integration and analytics for supply chain optimization.
  • D. Cloud CDN is for caching and delivering web content, irrelevant to supply chain analytics.

BigQuery and Looker for BI

BigQuery is a serverless, highly scalable, and cost-effective multi-cloud data warehouse designed for business agility. Looker is a business intelligence and data analytics platform that helps users explore and understand their data.

  • BigQuery enables storing and analyzing petabytes of data.
  • Looker provides interactive dashboards, reports, and data exploration capabilities.
  • Together, they form a powerful solution for data-driven decision-making.
  • Ideal for gaining insights from large, complex datasets.

Memory trick: BigQuery stores the data, Looker shows the insights.

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