Ellie Fields is the 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.
Top 10 Tableau table calculations
January 15, 2015 • By Ellie Fields
Here are 10 powerful examples of Tableau's table calculations. Most require writing a simple formula of some kind. Each example contains a live example and instructions in a tabbed view. You can download any workbook for a deeper look.
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.
Tableau 9 Beta is Out!
January 12, 2015 • By Ellie Fields
Update: We are excited to announce that Tableau 9.0 is now available.
Many of you began receiving emails Friday night letting you know that the Tableau 9.0 beta is out.
Several of the features in Tableau 9.0 were shown at the 2014 Tableau Conference. You can see the keynote presentation from TC14 here to get an idea of what’s coming out. There’s much more on the beta than we had time to show at the conference.
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.