June 24, 2019 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.
April 18, 2019 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.
April 8, 2019 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
April 11, 2018 Business Strategy & Perspectives
There are many business benefits that make Tableau a good choice as a third-party analytics tool when your reporting requirements exceed the capabilities that are native to Salesforce.
April 1, 2018 Business Strategy & Perspectives
Tableau Server is needed to scale Tableau to the enterprise and achieve true self-service capabilities. But Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server are rapidly converging their end-user development capabilities. So what are the differences between the two products and how do you determine which users get which license? In this blog, we’ll answer these questions and outline the conditions best suited for deploying Server.