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Tableau
Tableau, from Tableau Software is the leading 5th-generation data analysis tool.
Tableau is exceptionally adept at direct data access—virtually any record-based data source can be connected to directly, with minimal effort; and is unsurpassed in ease of analysis and quality of data visualization. Tableau's design is centered around excellence in data visualization coupled with intuitive, powerful, and extremely rich analytical functionality
Tableau's emergence enabled the development of Better BI. As we began to employ Tableau across the full spectrum of BI activites it became apparent that we were achieving better results faster than anyone had anticipated.
Traditional BI, Big BI, has become enamored of and centered in technology—designing and building ever-larger and more comprehensive data cathedrals requiring the marshaling and management of a multitude of specialized technical skills increasingly removed from the central mission of Business Intelligence: getting valuable data-based insights into the minds of real human people.
Traditional BI's fatal flaw is it's unspoken assumption that business data is unsuitable for business data analysis and must be researched, pondered, collected, analyzed, collected, refined, transported, and stored in vast warehouses before business people can meaningfully analyze it in order to obtain the information they require about the state of their business.
Tableau provides the opportunity to bring business data out of the shadows and make it accessible and easily analyzed by business people, with minimal concessions on their part to the restrictions and constraints of technology.
The effectiveness of Tableau-based Better BI has been demonstrated in client engagements spanning multiple industries. Tableau-employing Better BI promises and delivers these benefits:
- Client satisfaction—unlike Big BI's horrible failure rate, Better BI's clients are happy with their results.
- Highest quality analytics—Better BI practitioners are experienced professionals skilled in
analytic information design, resulting in analytics that are maximally effective in conveying the
essential characteristics of the data being presented.
Put simply, Better BI analytics tell the data's story better than Big BI analytics developed by a tool jockey. - Insights delivered immediately, not in months—we can deliver meaningful high value analytics at the speed of thought.
- Continuous delivery—once created, analytics are continuously available, and new analytics are constantly being created.
- Reduced cost—tremendous savings in money spent and other resources consumed, are realized in the
delivery of equivalent analytics versus Big BI.
(N.B. establishing equivalence is slippery, Better BI's analytics are inherently superior)
Learn more about how Tableau can be used to improve traditional BI here.
Tableau Consulting
Our Tableau consulting experience covers the full spectrum of organizational BI efforts.
The Tao of Tableau
Tableau is easy to use. It's also tremendously powerful and deeply sophisticated These characteristics are not often found in one tool. People who are new to Tableau are astonished at how simple and direct it is to get useful visualizations of their data.
Mastering Tableau opens up completely new opportunies and capabilities. Achieving Tableau mastery requires understanding Tableau at a deep level, internalizing Tableau's way of looking at and representing data and the various ways it can be analyzed and presented. Traditional training approaches emphasize the manipulation of Tableau in order to achieve specific objectives. This is adequate for learning specific tasks but falls short in helping the student get behind the curtain and achieve Tableau mastery.
The Tao of Tableau is an exploration of Tableau's universe, It identifies and explains how Tableau sees thinks, how it thinks about them, and how to achieve the seamless heights of mastery that lets one fly through their data seeing things impossible from the ground.