Ellie Fields is the Senior Vice President of Product Marketing at Tableau, responsible for new product launch, Tableau's community and Tableau Public. Her data geek credentials come from time served in technology and finance companies. She’s seen a lot of ugly data, beautiful data, and downright mean data. She’s a passionate believer that data used well can inform great discussions. She has an engineering degree from Rice University and an M.B.A. from The Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Bulletin from the Bay: Tableau User Group at GoPro
February 3, 2016 • By Ellie Fields
In January, there were 42 Tableau User Group meetings around the world, and there are hundreds of active groups. The San Francisco group is one of the largest and most active, and I always have a good time when I go.
Salesforce Canvas Connector for Tableau Server & Tableau Online is live!
May 18, 2015 • By Ellie Fields
What if you could make everyone on your sales team more productive? That's what organizations are trying to accomplish by embedding live, visual data right inside of salesforce. We are happy to announce that Tableau's Salesforce Canvas connector, which lets you embed visualizations inside Salesforce, is now live and out of beta.
Top 10 Trends in Business Intelligence in 2015
December 2, 2014 • By Ellie Fields
In this post, gentle reader, we give you no less than the future.
Every year a number of us gather to discuss the state of analytics. What’s new, what’s innovative. Which concepts are emerging, and which promising approaches are finally becoming mainstream.
While we can’t promise that we are 100% correct, we can promise an interesting read.
Putting Data Into the Field: What Mobile Sales Analytics Looks Like on Salesforce One
November 10, 2014 • By Ellie Fields
Over the last few years we've seen a huge shift in mobile analytical apps. Mobile analytics is transitioning from limited, standalone apps to analytics that work tightly with other systems.
In this video we take a look at how salespeople would use mobile analytics in the field to be more productive. The solution combines SalesforceOne, the mobile app for Salesforce, together with Salesforce Canvas and embedded dashboards from Tableau. We use Heroku Connect to enable real-time updates from Salesforce to the embedded dashboards.
Dreamy Sales Analytics with Tableau and Salesforce (And Where to Find us at Dreamforce)
October 10, 2014 • By Ellie Fields
Why do Tableau and Salesforce go so well together? Salesforce is a great system for managing sales, marketing and service. At Tableau, we’re big Salesforce users. And all that sales, marketing and service activity in Salesforce generates a lot of data.
That’s where Tableau comes in. Tableau can connect directly to Salesforce data and update it automatically on a schedule. Tableau Desktop lets you create sophisticated, interactive analyses with drag-and-drop ease. And you can embed those dashboards right back in Salesforce, to get data to people where they are doing their work.