Business Strategy & Perspectives
Most companies today use more than one BI tool. We examine the birth of bimodal analytics, the pros and cons of this approach and how to bridge the divide so that the tools run optimally and reduce overhead.
Ask Data, Tableau’s new feature for natural language query, is out on the market. But how does it work? Who is it intended for? What are its limitations? Highlights? We took Ask Data for an extensive test drive. In this blog we answer all these questions and many more.
If you recently upgraded your Cognos BI Server to 11.1.2 or later, you might have noticed a big upper-case WARNING when starting up Cognos services indicating that your selected PDF Confidentiality algorithm is not permitted. Sounds serious, right? The good news is, it’s easy to resolve.
Although a standard feature of many BI platforms, the ability to schedule PDF report emails is not easily accomplished in Tableau. But hallelujah! That’s all about to change with the next release! And this little bit of love from Tableau is likely to bring them lots more love in the way of adoption.
Business Strategy & Perspectives
Get a better bead on Power BI licensing. Our fictional customer account provides tangible scenarios for when to use Power BI Desktop, Power BI Pro, Power BI Free, Power BI Embedded, Power BI Premium and the availability (or not) of the paginated reporting feature.
Before 2019.2, Tableau’s default maps lacked detail and looked fuzzy when you zoomed in. Compensating for the inadequacies required adding Mapbox—increasing complexity and cost. Tableau’s recent 2019.2 release changes all that. Mapping capabilities made a huge leap forward, going from basic to wow and providing the detail we have come to expect.
Despite its many unique strengths, Power BI has some frustrating shortcomings. First on our list is the printing experience. Read on for a first-hand account of the ironic workaround we needed to implement.
Clean, straightforward and well-integrated, the advanced buttons capabilities in the April 2019 release of Power BI enable a new level of integration with Salesforce and let you up your Salesforce reporting game. We’ll take you through a simple exercise that scratches the surface of the types of Salesforce reporting you can do with Power BI. Slick stuff. Check it out!
Power BI comes with a variety of built-in report design themes. But when it comes to applying custom color themes, such as your company brand colors, the process is way too technical. Along with a quick primer on Power BI themes, we give you access to our Power BI Theme Builder, an app we created that makes it super simple to create custom report themes or adjust the built-in ones and then import them into Power BI.
Hallelujah! The latest releases of Power BI resolve many of the pixel perfect, burstable and paginated report issues that have been chapping our hides. While not entirely hitting it out of the park, Microsoft gives us a much better transitional process.
