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Month: April 2012
Rapid Graphs with Tableau Software 7 now available on Amazon, Kindle and Nook
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Tableau customer profile, Eystein from Norway, Banking & Insurance
Customer
Eystein from Norway
Favorite quote speaking with him
“Make it simple and fast, my IT team was cheering on Tableau after trying it and QlikView. They really hoped we would pick Tableau and I am very happy we did.”
Situation
Eystein recently took over a BI team that wanted to accelerate use of data across every area of the bank and subsidiaries. The bank and subsidiaries are heavy users of SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Web Report Studio and SAS Enterprise Miner.
They have a variety of data sources and data marts throughout the business. There is also a centralized Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) effort that is making headway, but has a long list of items ahead of them. In the meantime, SAS users are rapidly creating new data pulls that Eystein would like to use in Tableau. He realizes that the EDW team will never be able to have all the data that is needed by the business, so SAS is a good platform to prep the data for widespread analysis in Tableau.
Status
They recently evaluated fast analytic tools from
Newspapers of Spain dashboard for Tableau Customer Conference 2012
In honor of our beautiful host country, Spain, we have created a dashboard of the major newspapers available in Spain by city, circulation and whether it is in Catalan (the language of this area in Spain.) This dashboard was created in just 30 minutes with Tableau and a glass of Spanish wine at our side! … Read more