Peter Birksmith

(2IC) Senior System Analyst at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Has 10+ Years Of Experience

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User Activity

About 8 years ago

Contributed a review of Talend Open Studio [EOL]: Creates a job stream that connects to multiple data sources, but needs better installation configuration for other databases

Over 8 years ago

Contributed a review of Tableau Enterprise: Provides the story behind the data giving stakeholders the necessary insights and metrics

Almost 9 years ago

Commented on Framework Manager allows you to build relationships between physical database tables. Transformer works extremely well.

The time of IBM Cognos is actually passing due to the self service reporting solutions like Tableau, QLIK, panaramo and Decom just to name a few. Modelling is simple and quick for business users, and a report can be created in minutes not days or months What surprises me…

Over 9 years ago

Commented on Non-technical people without significant SQL experience use it to explore data.

We use Tableau for the exact same reason that you have described however, we built it with an operational lense and therefore put processes in place to stop a flood of rubbish from flowing into the Production Portal When implementing a solution that will cross over an…

Over 9 years ago

Answered a question: How does Jaspersoft compare to Tableau?

Hi There are quite a few good answers here however, I'll write up a response from my experiences. We use Jasper and Tableau however, Tableau is predominantly used for Analytic and exploration as well as for dashboarding key KPI's. Tableau will tell you that their platform…

Projects

Over 9 years ago

ESRI GEE Major Event Automation from BOM data

ESRI GEE Major Event Automation from BOM data for continuous notification and map distribution

Experience

Reviews

About 8 years ago

Talend Open Studio [EOL]

Creates a job stream that connects to multiple data sources, but needs better installation configuration for other databases

Over 8 years ago

Tableau Enterprise

Provides the story behind the data giving stakeholders the necessary insights and metrics

Answers

Over 9 years ago

Reporting

How does Jaspersoft compare to Tableau?

Comments

Almost 9 years ago

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

Framework Manager allows you to build relationships between physical database tables. Transformer works extremely well.

Over 9 years ago

Embedded BI

Non-technical people without significant SQL experience use it to explore data.

About me

Senior Business Analyst
2nd and 3rd level support for BI products. The job is always a challenge as a support person needs to know more than just the software the company promotes. As a support person you are basically a jack of all trades and should be able to work in any software environment, and with any 3rd party product (assuming it's supported)

Specialties: Teaching, Assessing, writing technical papers, presenting, public speaking, budget management, staff co-ordination.
Database administration for mainstream data warehouses, BI report development, BI architecture assessment and implementation.

I'm multi talented having an Electical License so can also change the lights in the office :-)

Education

Curtin University

Interesting Projects and Accomplishments

Over 9 years ago

ESRI GEE Major Event Automation from BOM data