Business Strategy & Perspectives
The potential for deployment failure with Power BI Premium is very high if you don’t properly plan capacity and put governance practices in place. We outline three common mistakes we see with clients who have deployed Power BI Premium.
Business Strategy & Perspectives
Cognos data modules have evolved quite a bit over the years. A few wrinkles still need ironing out, but the tool has lots of offer. In this blog we touch on some of the strengths and weakness of data modules and when it’s better to keep using Framework Manager.
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 will cover each Tableau licensing type so you can make the best decision for your company and your budget.
Business Strategy & Perspectives
We look at six options for publishing and sharing Tableau workbooks and dashboards. We discuss the pros, cons and requirements for each option so you can make the best decision for your organization.
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.
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.
