The Briefing Room with Robin Bloor and Tableau Software Live Webcast April 23, 2013 Classic author Ralph Waldo Emerson inspired a generation with his essays on self-reliance. The wisdom of his message still rings true today, and provides a vision for the modern information worker: trust in yourself and your ideas. Then, pull together the right data, and the right visualization of that data, to tell a compelling story. Rely on your instincts, and use information assets to your advantage. Check out the slides from this episode of The Briefing Room to hear veteran Analyst Dr. Robin Bloor provide a roadmap for enabling self-reliant knowledge workers. He'll be briefed by Suzanne Hoffman of Tableau Software, who will demonstrate how the latest version of Tableau's data visualization platform can empower information professionals from all segments of the enterprise. She'll demonstrate how anyone from a casual business user to a Data Scientist can quickly create, modify and share visualizations. Visit: http://www.insideanalysis.com

1. The Briefing Room

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Welcome
Host:
Eric Kavanagh
eric.kavanagh@bloorgroup.com

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! 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

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APRIL: Intelligence
May: INTEGRATION
June: DATABASE
July: CLOUD

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Processing Monitoring
Intelligence
“Tis the good
reader that
makes a good
book”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Analyst: Robin Bloor
Robin Bloor is
Chief Analyst at
The Bloor Group
robin.bloor@bloorgroup.com

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! 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

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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

24. ThankYou!
www.TableauSoftware.com
www.tableausoftware.com/
learn/webinars
www.tableausoftware.com/
products/trial

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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
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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
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• Regular reporting/operational BIHINDSIGHT
• Dashboards, OLAP, BPM, etc.OVERSIGHT
• Data mining, statistical analysis
(trends and relationships)INSIGHT
• Predictive analyticsFORESIGHT

29. New “Eyes”
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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.
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31. Self-Service Issues
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• 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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April: INTELLIGENCE
May: INTEGRATION
June: DATABASE
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for Your
Attention