Tableau

Hello everyone,

My team and I are currently in the process of selecting a Business Intelligence (BI) tool for our actively developing company, which has over 500 employees. We are considering open-source options.

We are keen to connect with a Head of Analytics or BI Analytics professional who has extensive experience working with any of these systems and is willing to share their insights. Ideally, we would like to speak with someone from companies that have transitioned from proprietary BI tools (such as PowerBI, Qlik, or Tableau) to open-source BI tools, or vice versa.

If you have any contacts or recommendations for individuals we could reach out to regarding this matter, we would greatly appreciate it. Additionally, if you are personally willing to share your experiences, please feel free to reach out to me directly. Thank you!

Looking for the best analytics software for a medium-large-sized firm. We currently use a Microsoft SQL Server database that is analyzed in Tableau desktop/published to Tableau online for users to access dashboards. Is it worth the cost savings/time to switch over to using SSRS or Power BI? Does anyone have experience migrating from Tableau to SSRS /or Power BI? Our other option is to consider using Tableau on-premises instead of online. Using custom SQL with over 3 million rows really decreases performances and results in processing times that greatly exceed our typical experience. Thanks.

We need to perform ETL from several databases into a data warehouse or data lake. We want to

• keep raw and transformed data available to users to draft their own queries efficiently
• give users the ability to give custom permissions and SSO
• move between open-source on-premises development and cloud-based production environments

We want to use inexpensive Amazon EC2 instances only on medium-sized data set 16GB to 32GB feeding into Tableau Server or PowerBI for reporting and data analysis purposes.

We decided to use Tableau as it will allow us to quickly create rich representations of our data. It can also integrate well into our app using the JS api. Additionally, our team's experience with this platform should assist with getting our prototype up and running speedily.

I use Tableau because it has a good drag and drop interface for data viz. I usually connect it to databases and warehouses for real-time querying.

I love the dynamic tool tip charting that's pretty easy to create.

However, it's pretty expensive for large organizations, and Tableau server runs pretty slow after awhile. I recommend this for users who don't want to code up data viz.

We've been able to develop great reports in QuickBooks, HubSpot, and other software. The problem is it's always a very limited view of the company, and we have hundreds of dashboards and reports scattered across dozens of different types of software.

We use Tableau to grab data through APIs and tie it altogether in a more intuitive and useful way.