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.
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.
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.
Business Strategy & Perspectives
With the abundance of reporting tools Cognos Analytics 11.1 offers, how do you know which one to use? Fear not! We’ve assembled a handy visual reference guide that makes it easy to compare tools against report functionality requirements and quickly come up with the answer.
Business Strategy & Perspectives
Before you leap into your BI project, consider the unsung hero of successful BI: documentation. Sure, it’s not sexy, but the effort you put in here, upstream off implementation, ensures everyone is working of the same playbook so you achieve success at the end.
