Tableau news stories

Databricks has launched SQL Analytics, which enables cloud data warehousing on data lakes and offers improved price and performance over traditional cloud data warehouses.

Future alignment plans include connecting Tableau natively to the Einstein Analytics data store which will take advantage of the performance optimisation’s and native Salesforce security integration.

“Our investment in these two new regions in APJ will allow more and more customers to migrate their analytics to the cloud and help with their business transformations.”

The offering is designed to make it easier for customers to analyse complex data without using coding or scripting, and answer complex business questions that span multiple database tables at different levels of detail.

A growing desire by organisations to gain value from their data is spawning lucrative opportunities for channel partners across Australia and New Zealand. 

Tableau/IDC’s data readiness index reveals leading data ready firms in Asia Pacific outperform laggards by 90%.

The Tableau Partner Network will roll out in phases over the next 12 months, starting in the first half of 2020.

The integrations and new offerings are from featured technology partners including Alibaba, Alteryx, Databricks, DataRobot and others.

There are almost 700 Australians with the job title of ‘chief storyteller’, according to LinkedIn.

Tableau Software recently announced general availability of a range of new capabilities that power statistical analysis with a single click, as well as natural language processing, data management, and server management.

In order to implement a change that can be sustained, organisations need to find a way to embed it into their culture.

Could you trust machines to make business decisions with the right amount of judgement and contextual understand that humans can? Not yet.

Data has frequently been referred to as the ‘oil’ of the 21st century - much like oil, it’s a raw material that can be transformed into insights and value. Following that analogy, the oil refineries of data today are business intelligence and analytics platforms.

"If Australia truly harbours ambitions to become a data-powered economy, it has some serious work to do."

Woolworths Group Australia has chosen Tableau’s data reporting and visual analytics tools to achieve rapid, real-time decision making in the fast-paced FMCG environment.

"With greater reliance on AI and machine learning comes human hesitation about the trustworthiness of model-driven recommendations."

Tableau Software announced the general availability of Ask Data, which leverages the power of natural language processing.

"Collecting data cannot be an end in itself and extracting and leveraging the insights it contains should become standard operating procedure across all business units."

"Australian businesses are expected to ramp up analytics investment in 2018."

We sat down with Tableau chief product officer Francois Ajenstat to talk about how the company enables organisations to be more 'analytics capable'.

The course is positioned as a method for increasing the digital literacy of students in a range of professions.

Are AI and ML all doom and gloom or will they drive significant, encouraging progress?

It is most often a lack of information, not time, that drives inefficiency and renders many meetings completely futile.

"As educators, it is imperative that we respond to the industry’s growing demand for data journalists and prepare the next generation of reporters."