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To meet the many needs of our customers, Tableau’s approach to cloud is simple: It’s all about choice. The choice of how and where you deploy your analytics. The choice to analyze any data, regardless of where it resides, no matter how you’ve chosen to deploy your analytics.

Have you ever heard of BI-nosaurs? At this year's Gartner BI Summit, Gartner's Research Director Joao Tapadinhas presented a session titled “How to Architect a Modern BI and Analytics Platform.” In this presentation, Joao refers to folks working on traditional BI platforms and not embracing new trends like self-service BI as BI-nosaurs. If they do not evaluate the new way of doing BI, Joao suggests, they could become extinct.

There is nothing worse than opening a report in an Excel spreadsheet and seeing pages and pages of columns that provide little or no insight into the data. But text tables do have their place, especially in the financial sector. Here are some things to consider when designing text tables.

When it comes to analytics, sharing is caring.

Why should IT organizations promote a culture of self-service analytics? The answer is simple: productivity. Our job in IT is to create a secure environment that allows people to be highly productive. And enabling people to explore their own data in real-time is an essential part of that work.