Data Visualization and the Art of Self-Reliance
- 2. Twitter Tag: #briefr The Briefing Room Welcome Host: Eric Kavanagh eric.kavanagh@bloorgroup.com
- 3. Twitter Tag: #briefr The Briefing Room ! 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! Mission
- 4. Twitter Tag: #briefr The Briefing Room APRIL: Intelligence May: INTEGRATION June: DATABASE July: CLOUD
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- 6. Twitter Tag: #briefr The Briefing Room Analyst: Robin Bloor Robin Bloor is Chief Analyst at The Bloor Group robin.bloor@bloorgroup.com
- 7. Twitter Tag: #briefr The Briefing Room ! Tableau develops software for data visualization, business intelligence and analytics ! Their stated mission is to help people see and understand data ! Its platform is designed for ease of use by power users and casual users alike Tableau Software
- 8. Twitter Tag: #briefr The Briefing Room Suzanne Hoffman Suzanne Hoffman is Senior Director of Analyst Relations for Tableau Software. Suzanne has more than 20 years of sales and management experience working for companies such as SPSS, Metaphor and Cognos (all acquired by IBM) and Arbor Software, Hyperion Solutions and HyperRoll (all acquired by Oracle). She’s active in Women in Technology International (WITI - GEN), a member of the Association for Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP), Sales and Marketing Executives Int’l (SMEI), The Executives’ Club of Chicago and many other industry boards. She is an active conference speaker, trainer and author.
- 11. The Cycle ofVisual Analysis
- 12. The Big Data Obstacle
- 13. Any Data, - Live • Salesforce.com • Google Analytics • Google BigQuery • Hadoop • Cloudera Impala • DataStax Enterprise (Cassandra) • Hortonworks • Hadapt • MapR • Analytic Appliances • Extract API
- 14. Fast • NewViz Engine yields fast graphics and calculations • Parallelized dashboards • Faster quick filters • Improved Data Engine performance • Performance recorder
- 15. Web & Mobile Authoring
- 16. SQL Connector MDX Connector Data Engine VizQL Compiler User Interface Data Marts Data Warehouse Files Cubes + When the source DB query performance is slow + To offload iterative query workload from the source DB + To work offline from the network + To keep an archive of the data Use this option: Tableau Native Query Technology + Interactive queries to the database + Leverages IT policies for security + Avoids data silos + Ensures fresh data results + Values the EDW strategy Tableau Data Engine Technology + In-memory + Column store + Highly compressed + Optimized API specific for Tableau + 64-bit (32-bit version as well) Tableau Architecture: Where’s the data?
- 17. What it Means TOTAL ACCESS TO DATA VISUAL ANALYTICS EVERYWHERE ANALYTICS FOR EVERYONE
- 18. Customers 11,000 customers from every industry and geography
- 25. Twitter Tag: #briefr The Briefing Room Analyst: Robin Bloor Perceptions & Questions
- 26. DATA VISUALIZATION AND THE ART OF SELF-RELIANCE “The voyage of DISCOVERY is not in seeking new landscapes, but in having NEW EYES.” ~Marcel Proust
- 27. Open Source, The Cloud and BI The introduction of self-service in retail prompted a revolution The Bloor Group Effort was outsourced to the customer It cut costs for the retailer The customers did not mind at all The customers concluded that they were receiving a better service Since then the idea has been repeated many times
- 28. BI Categories Self-service BI makes obvious sense, but it isn’t simple The Bloor Group • Regular reporting/operational BIHINDSIGHT • Dashboards, OLAP, BPM, etc.OVERSIGHT • Data mining, statistical analysis (trends and relationships)INSIGHT • Predictive analyticsFORESIGHT
- 29. New “Eyes” The Bloor Group
- 30. Self-Service & Productivity The level of self-service and its usefulness is not a simple thing. In the best of circumstances the user probably cannot self-design the way their whole job works. The Bloor Group
- 31. Self-Service Issues The Bloor Group • Governance & approval • Data self-service • Actual efficiency Governance & Approval Data Self-Service Actual Efficiency
- 32. ! How great a spectrum of BI activities does the Tableau capability cover? ! How easy is it for users to learn to exploit? What is the learning curve? What does it involve? ! Is there any aspect of BI that you don’t or won’t cater for? ! How is the effectiveness of these capabilities monitored?
- 33. ! Data Self-Service: ! Governance? ! Performance? ! Hadoop and Cloud? ! What functionality constraints, if any, can be placed on the user?
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