Business Strategy & Perspectives
Tableau licensing can be confusing. It is difficult to figure out what exactly users can and cannot do with each license type. This blog covers each Tableau licensing type so you can make the best decision for your company and your budget.
Get step-by-step instructions for setting up Cloud Object Storage in IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1.5. This new feature is a great way to save and retrieve Cognos reports in the cloud, even if you’re running Cognos on-premise.
Our in-house Cognos expert Todd Schuman is over the moon about this release and reveals his favorite features. Among them you’ll learn about an object called data tables that provides a ton of functionality that has been on his wishlist for years.
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.
