Are you still looking for better analytics, dashboards and business intelligence? Tableau is hosting a local event you might be interested in attending and the Datalicious crew will be there as well!

An Introduction to Business Intelligence and Dashboards

When: Wednesday, April 28th, 9:00-11:00 AM (Check-in starts at 8:30 AM)
Where: Sydney Marriott Hotel, 36 College Street, Sydney (map)
More info: http://www.tableausoftware.com/sydney-bi-dashboards

Attend this in-person event and learn how to

• Leverage new technology to spot trends in data and react quickly
• Provide business users at every level the information they need to make better decisions
• Focus more on analysis and less on collecting data
• Create and deploy brilliant executive dashboards 
• Cut the backlog of change requests by building an environment where users get what they want, when they want it
• Breakfast will be provided but space is limited, please register today to confirm your seat.

CFO magazine called Tableau “the best piece of software in years” and Microsoft said it was “bringing analytics to a completely new level.” But you don't have to take their word for it. Come see for yourself.

Also check out our earlier blog post on some sample multi-channel marketing dashboards and Australian prices for Tableau if you want to find out more.

Broader data management - not simply database management - is required to keep pace with the escalation of untapped, unstructured web data. As the amount of this data approaches the petabyte level, new tools have been developed that allow your enterprise to expand upon current Business Intelligence capabilities to expose business patterns that have valuable strategic implications.

Massive mashups - or combinations of data from diverse sources into a single integrated tool (e.g. Google Maps) - provide business users with fresh perspectives of their industry. Such perspectives are made possible through the integration of structured data through a common web browser. But how does one deal with mashing together multiple gigabytes and terabytes - even petabytes - of unstructured data? 

The IBM Emerging Internet Technologies group has evolved the key concepts from the mashups paradigm into a new tool code named: “Massive Mashups” (M2). But integrating petabytes of disparate data is more than just an added capability; it expands current Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities to expose business patterns that we don’t know we don’t know.

Click here to download:

BigSheets6x20.pdf (698 KB)

Our new BI partner Tableau was recently included on Gartner's Magic Quadrant and recognised as one of the key challengers to the  major players. 

Gartner wrote about Tableau: 

"Customer survey data shows that Tableau was chosen more often for functionality than any other vendor in the survey, with one of the highest overall product functionality scores."

"Tableau's strong performance, even during the recession, is driven by its ability to meet the increased market demand for easy-to-use and intuitive, interactive BI tools that are easy to deploy without IT assistance."

"It was the only vendor in the survey for which customers reported below-average issues (albeit for a small number of users and small data sizes) across all issue categories measuring product quality, functionality, usability, performance and scalability."

We haven't taken the survey but agree that Tableau is awesome to explore, mine and visualise data, very powerful and user-friendly!

Check out our Australian Tableau prices and local support options or email Chris at cbartens@datalicious.com if you would like to find out more about Tableau and how it could help to make your data more accessible.

Find out more about Tableau here
http://www.tableausoftware.com/

Read the full Gartner report here
http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints/tableau/article1/article1.html

Datalicious is proud to announce that we have just joined the Tableau reseller program after having evaluated and used the business intelligence platform for several months.

Explore, discover, visualize and publish: Tableau delivers rapid-fire business intelligence that requires little more than drag and drop (ok, and an analytics mind). Whether you just want to crunch data from various different databases and files or publish your annotated dashboards and reports online for everyone in your company to see, Tablea makes BI fast and easy at a fraction of the cost of traditional business intelligence software.

Check out our Australian Tableau prices and local support options or  email us at insights@datalicious.com if you want to find out more.

For more in-depth product information visit the official Tableau website.
http://www.tableausoftware.com/