Dashboard Starters for data sources like Salesforce and Marketo are a great new feature from Tableau. But they only work with Tableau extracts, which have limitations. We show you how to get around the tricky task of swapping out a reporting database for Tableau’s default extracts.
July 16, 2018 Business Strategy & Perspectives
The recent 2018.1 release of Tableau (released in May 2018) saw a convergence of functionality between Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server/Tableau Online. In this blog, we examine remaining functionality differences between the products.
In the recent release of Tableau Online 2018.1, Dashboard Starters for common enterprise applications were introduced. Seven of these Dashboard Starters are built to work with Salesforce data. We love the idea of these pre-built dashboards but discovered a few hitches when we tried to use them. We share 18 lessons we learned – along with some fixes.
June 20, 2018 Business Strategy & Perspectives
There are many options for preparing data for use in Tableau, from built-in tools to third-party platforms. We look at the options and provide five factors to take into account when determining which ones are best suited to the task at hand.
With all the capabilities that have been added to Cognos Analytics, it can be unclear as to which is the right choice, a report or a dashboard? There is no simple answer—the choice depends on the business use case. Read on for a reference guide that compares the differences to help you decide the best tool for your needs.
May 22, 2018 Business Strategy & Perspectives
On April 24, 2018, Tableau rolled out Tableau 2018 with three new license types. The Creator, Explorer and Viewer licenses vary in their capabilities, access to tools and pricing. In this blog, we clarify what each license can and cannot do so you can get the best bang for your Tableau buck.
May 7, 2018 Business Strategy & Perspectives
With the Senturus Analytics Connector, the University accesses the secure data in Cognos with Tableau, drastically cutting the amount of time it takes to deliver reports while ensuring data security.
There are various reasons why you may have several reports in Cognos Analytics that are very similar. In this blog we will focus on one of the more common reasons, date filter requirements. And we’ll provide creative solutions – along with the step-by-step instructions – to consolidate using this advanced reporting technique.
April 27, 2018 Business Strategy & Perspectives
Multidimensional (or OLAP) data structures are the basis for reports that are more dynamic, interactive and meaningful. But many authors do not realize they are reporting against multidimensional data and/or lack the knowledge to fully leverage the benefits. In this blog, we help you understand whether you have access to OLAP data, outline the benefits of multidimensional/OLAP report authoring and provide some background on the architecture.
It's a new day for data! Welcome to Tableau Prep, a new data preparation tool, that was launched in May 2018. This tool is easy to use and can make complex data sources "Tableau friendly" in minutes. Read on for 10 killer features we love.
