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Whitepaper - BARC Cloud Trends 2017

BARC Research Study 2017 BI and data management in the cloud: current issues and trends The Business Application Research Center (BARC) and Eckerson Group have joined forces to publish a study...

  • Business Intelligence
  • Cloud

TDWI Best Practices Report: BI, Analytics and the Cloud

The cloud is becoming a mature platform for data management, integration, business intelligence (BI), and analytics. Although some organizations still will not make use of it (typically for security...

  • IT & Enterprise

Tableau Server Platform Security

Tableau is a modern enterprise analytics platform that enables self-service analytics at scale through governance. Security is the first and most critical part of a data and content governance...

  • IT & Enterprise

Tableau Server Platform Monitoring

Customers depend on Tableau as the core of their business intelligence platform. Like any mission critical service, administrators need to proactively monitor their Tableau deployment to identify and...

  • Big Data
  • Tech Partners

Delivering rapid-fire analytics with Snowflake and Tableau

Until recently, advancements in data warehousing and analytics were largely incremental. Small innovations in database design would herald a new data warehouse every 2-3 years, which would quickly...

  • IT & Enterprise
  • New Role of IT

Redefining the role of IT in a modern BI world

As organizations begin the transition from a traditional top-down approach driven by IT to a modern, self-service approach, the past decisions supporting the core foundational components of a BI...

  • Compete

Evaluation Guide: How to choose the right modern BI & analytics platform

Don't evaluate modern analytics with traditional BI criteria Traditional reporting and distribution tools can’t offer the transformative speed to insight or the self-reliance of a modern approach...

  • Business Intelligence
  • Enterprise Adoption
  • New Role of IT

Developing a Governed Self-Service BI Strategy

Only a few years ago, data lived in specific databases, and IT was its gatekeeper – if the business needed a report, only IT had the skills to prep that data and build the report. Today, in the era...

  • Business Intelligence
  • Cloud

Best Practices for Tableau Cloud

You've successfully published a workbook to Tableau Cloud. You've added users to your site. Perhaps your teammates are starting to share their own dashboards and collaborate with shared data sources...

  • Trends

Six Trends in Retail Analytics for 2017

Business intelligence norms are evolving across the retail industry, and leading retailers are prioritizing analytics initiatives as a result. While the trend toward retail analytics isn’t new,...