Technically Speaking: How Self-Service Analytics Fosters Collaboration

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6/26/12


!  Reveal the essential characteristics of enterprise software, good and bad

!  Provide a forum for detailed analysis of today’s innovative technologies

!  Give vendors a chance to explain their product to savvy analysts

!  Allow audience members to pose serious questions... and get answers!


!   June: Intelligence

!   July: Disruption

!   August: Analytics

!   September: Integration

!   October: Database

!   November: Cloud


!  The fundamental role of Business Intelligence technologies is to provide historical, current and predictive views of organizational operations, ultimately leading to better decision making.

!  With the availability of data connectivity from the cloud and mobile devices, productivity no longer ends when you step away from the desk.

!  Businesses find great advantage when data managers and users can leverage the power of intelligence and analytics from anywhere, anytime – and share those insights across teams.


Wayne Eckerson has been a thought leader in the data warehousing, business intelligence, and performance management fields since 1995. He is a noted keynote speaker, author and blogger, and he consults and conducts workshops on business analytics, performance dashboards, and business intelligence, among other topics. Wayne served as director of education and research at The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) where he oversaw the company’s content and training programs and chaired its BI Executive Summit. Wayne is a principal consultant at BI Leader Consulting and the founder of BI Leadership Forum. Wayne is also Director of Research at TechTarget where his popular weekly blog called “Wayne’s World” focuses on industry trends and examines best practices in the application of business intelligence. [email protected]


!  Offers BI products aimed at making databases and spreadsheets accessible across the enterprise

!   Leverages their patented VizQL to turn queries into visualizations

!  Provides browser-based analytics


Ellie Fields is the Director of Product Marketing at Tableau Software. She has spoken at numerous industry events for business intelligence as well as for data journalism. Prior to Tableau, Ellie worked at Microsoft and in late-stage venture capital. Ellie is a graduate of Rice University and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Fostering Collaboration

Ellie Fields Senior Director, Product Marketing Tableau Software @eleanorpd

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FILES & SPREADSHEETS

DATABASES AND CUBES

DATA WAREHOUSE

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In-Memory or Live

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Customers A few of the many companies transforming their businesses with Tableau

Finance Consumer

Media Technology

Healthcare Education

Case Study: AAA Allied Group

IT Reports And Changes Took Too Long AAA’s IT team was spending too much time supporting, changing, and altering existing reports along with creating new ones using Crystal Reports. IT VP: “I was desperate to find a solution that would put report creation in the hands of the people who had the most information about the business.” Tableau Dashboards and Reports Shared Instantly in Sharepoint Tableau installed to automate how information is organized, make it easier to interpret, and automate distribution. All custom reports moved to Tableau, and then individuals consume through SharePoint portal and manipulate data themselves.

•  Broader-range reports allow them to drill down to the information, see information in a more macro viewpoint

•  “People collaborating more often because they have information at their fingertips they didn’t have available before.”

What Customers Say

Demonstration

“Making data easy to see and understand is one of the great opportunities of our time.”

- Christian Chabot, CEO ,Tableau Software

Tableau Architecture

VizQL Server

Data Server

Application Server

Fast Data Engine

SQL Connector

MDX Connector

Data Marts Data Warehouse Files Cubes

Gateway/ Load Balancer

Repository

Desktop Browser Mobile

Customer data

Data connectors

Main components

Gateway

Clients

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Self-‐Service BI

Wayne Eckerson Founder, BI Leadership Forum

Director of Research, TechTarget

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CONSUMERS

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PRODUCERS

•  Personalize •  Assemble •  CraM •  Source •  Develop


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Power Users

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• What is Tableau’s definiPon of self-‐service?

• What setup does IT need to do to implement self-‐service BI?

• What self-‐service acPviPes are available to casual users? Power users?

• What’s the relaPonship between casual and power users in Tableau’s vision of self-‐service BI?

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!   June: Intelligence

!   July: Disruption

!   August: Analytics

!   September: Integration

!   October: Database

!   November: Cloud

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