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"a toolset that allows non- and minimally-technical employees to quickly and easily build new reports" Been there, done that. This is the mantra of the BI sys
by elliott34 12y ago
"a toolset that allows non- and minimally-technical employees to quickly and easily build new reports"
Been there, done that.
This is the mantra of the BI system marketing machine that I've never actually seen work in practice.
But I'm glad you've seen BI enterprise systems succeed where the end users are happy and feel their toolset is flexible enough for the new daily challenges they encounter (sincerely).
I love Tableau as an exploration tool and think the UX and visualization capabilities are awesome. Just not the solution end users wanted. I've also rolled out a massive cloud based enterprise BI system (data warehousing, ETL, etc.) at a separate company. That wasn't the solution, either. Plotly was. But, just my two cents.
- greggyb 12y agoMicrosoft's PowerBI platform is growing on me for an end-user UI. You're definitely right that none of the enterprise solutions are completely "there." It still seems to me that "Export to Excel" is the strongest BI feature of any tool. Pivot tables are ubiquitous. Throw any OLAP cube up on a server and host a workbook on SharePoint and you're probably 60% of the way to a good BI ecosystem. ^^ This is in terms of data vis and presentation ^^ The backend work still dominates. Fair disclosure: my company is a Microsoft Partner, so my primary exposure and all of my work is in that ecosystem. For geek-cred, I run Arch and OpenBSD for all my personal systems.