How To Use Tableau Repository to Monitor Your Tableau Server
Looking to optimize your Tableau Server? If you are reading this, you are most probably on the right path. But how do you know where to start? Just like our health, before any treatment can be prescribed, a diagnosis is required. When it comes to Tableau Server, no diagnosis would be complete without a deep […]
The BI Cantos: Releasing Your First Dashboards
Most people in your company are not database experts. They are interested in something other than databases and ELT programs. They want information that supports their work needs. Human beings are visual creatures, and interactive dashboards are visual data expressions. Dashboards enable everyone to see, understand and interact with data in your database, converting that […]
Choosing Data Pipeline Tools: Matillion or Alteryx Designer
What are the differences or similarities between Matillion and Alteryx Designer? Both Matillion and Alteryx are popular low-code/no-code tools that help with data transformation and integration, so it’s no surprise we have to clarify these two tools with clients from time to time. While on the surface these visual, drag-and-drop data tools appear similar, they […]
The BI Cantos: Planning a Proof-of-Concept Sprint
The plans, quotes and project deliverables your selected consulting partner helped you develop should include a proof-of-concept project recommendation based on your combined due diligence. The proof-of-concept (POC) sprint is a crucial subproject that tests your platform and software selections. The first dashboards your end users can use provide an early litmus test of your […]
5 IT Tips for New Businesses
After working in the IT Managed Services industry for over 18 years, particularly in medium and small business markets, I’ve come across businesses of all shapes and sizes. The underlying goal has always been simply to keep business processes up and running. If an IT instance is broken, new business leaders understand very easily that […]
The BI Cantos: Building Data Workflows and Best-of-Breed Solutions
Data workflows are like hiking boots — good-fitting ones can take you anywhere. Ill-fitting ones spawn misery. As you document the existing workflows in discovery meetings, these details will influence your software selections — the tools for the data workflows. The amount and type of work necessary to achieve the desired results will be affected […]
The BI Cantos: Conducting Discovery Sessions
An essential part of any business intelligence system plan is to collect information on the vital data workflows within your company. An ounce of discovery is worth a pound of remediation. -Adapted from Benjamin Franklin During discovery, identify the business processes that comprise operations and provide data outputs. A typical list of workflows may include: […]
A Tableau Style Guide Made in Tableau
One of the reasons I gravitated towards a career in data visualization was just that — the visualizations. My background is in the visual arts and to see data, facts and numbers, concepts and correlations, all brilliantly designed and represented in colorful graphs activated both sides of my brain. I also have a deep appreciation […]
The BI Cantos: Team Composition
This section summarizes the skills and knowledge your deployment team must have. Your deployment team will set up the software, define the proof-of-concept (POC) deliverables and perform efficacy testing. They will work with your consulting partner and end users to ensure the project deliverables meet expectations. Suppose the POC sprint does not result in a […]
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines for Tableau
As data grows more and more entrenched into everyday business decisions, the importance of questioning our data and how we interpret it becomes vital. At InterWorks, we work with all different types of data, organizations and decisions. We know the impact that data can have, which is why we find it necessary to think about […]
