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Over 11 years ago

Answered a question: How is Tableau 8 different from from the previous version?

There's a lot of info on the web on this but the most succinct is probably Tableau's own release docs: http://www.tableausoftware.com/new-features/8.0 http://www.tableausoftware.com/new-features/server-enhancements

Over 11 years ago

Contributed a review of Tableau Enterprise: Tableau is an excellent data discovery and visualisation tool, enabling intuitive data analysis without formal training.

Over 11 years ago

Commented on Great for users trying to perform data visualization with just Excel, but lacks control for some organizations

I see where you are coming from and agree with it for some use cases, not for others Tableau, and other data discovery tools, have a metadata layer and calculation functionality that enable quite a lot of transformation, joining, summarising and in Tableau's case…

Over 11 years ago

Commented on Great for users trying to perform data visualization with just Excel, but lacks control for some organizations

Couple of corrections if I may 1) Tableau Desktop doesn't come in personal and enterprise versions. You can get a free trial version of the full product for 21 days but to use it for longer you'll have to buy it. 2) Tableau Reader is a free desktop viewing client, not…

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Over 11 years ago

Tableau Enterprise

Tableau is an excellent data discovery and visualisation tool, enabling intuitive data analysis without formal training.

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Over 11 years ago

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

How is Tableau 8 different from from the previous version?

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Over 11 years ago

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

Great for users trying to perform data visualization with just Excel, but lacks control for some organizations

Over 11 years ago

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

Great for users trying to perform data visualization with just Excel, but lacks control for some organizations

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10 years business experience in life insurance industry, followed by 15 years experience as an analyst developer in a wide range of technologies, including:
COBOL, PL1, CICS, Mantis on IBM mainframe
C++, Java, VB(6)

Currently working as a lead analyst and developer in Business Intelligence, delivering data warehousing and reporting using Oracle, PLSQL, Application Express, Discoverer (OLAP and OLTP), Tableau, SQL Server 2008R2 and SSIS.

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Irish Life Assurance
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