Business Strategy & Perspectives
We recap Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms, looking at changes, what the future holds and, most important, where to focus and why as the BI and analytics space continues to evolve.
Business Strategy & Perspectives
How difficult – or easy – would it be for a long-time Tableau user to leverage their expertise and get up speed on Microsoft Power BI? We took the challenge and include here a comparison of over 50 Tableau and Power BI features and functions with notes on how to translate Tableau terminology, features and functionality to the equivalent in Power BI.
The new reporting tool in Cognos Analytics 11.1 provides access to a lot of features that are typically reserved for advanced developers. We show you how you can hide the items you don’t want and get the simple business intelligence reporting you’re looking for in Cognos Analytics.
Power BI allows Tableau users to leverage datasets that have been published to Power BI service. For organizations that are running both tools, it’s a cake-and-eat-it solution, allowing them to use their tool of choice without rebuilding redundant data warehouses. In this blog, we’ll walk you through the process of using Power BI datasets in Tableau and what you’ll need before you start.
Business Strategy & Perspectives
Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server received a boatload of new features and enhancements over the course of 2019. In this blog, we cover our favorite new Tableau features and give you a glimpse of what’s coming up for Tableau in 2020.
Business Strategy & Perspectives
Power BI allows for a number of different, but complementary, ways to organize and model self-service data. Two of these mechanisms are called Dataflows and Datasets.
Business Strategy & Perspectives
AI is popping up in BI (business intelligence) platforms. Power BI has Key Influencers, Tableau has Explain Data and Cognos Analytics has Explorations. In our blog, we stack up AI functionality in the big three platforms, demo’ing how well they can uncover hidden relationships in data and giving you the pros and cons of each.
Business Strategy & Perspectives
Power BI offers many ways to pull in data for analysis. But what approach should your organization take? The answer depends on considerations that include whether or not your organization has an existing data warehouse, your need for real-time dashboarding and the ease-of-use factor for your analysts. We explore four options, outlining the pros and cons of each.
The use of "big numbers” KPI dashboards has become a managerial must-have report for assessing business performance. But building them into a Tableau dashboard isn’t as easy as you’d think. Learn our tried-and-true method for building a big numbers sales and profit KPI dashboard in Tableau and you, too, can deliver professional, effective KPI dashboards to your decision makers.
Power BI Pro licensing often works well for small- and mid-sized organizations focused on enabling self-service BI. But for larger organizations that want to leverage paginated reports or require enhanced administration tools, an upgrade to Power BI Premium is needed. We tell you about included features, pricing and admin functionality.
