Tag: Tableau
Recently, one of our customers approached us with a challenging problem: The customer, who has about 15,000 employees worldwide, has a fairly large OBIEE environment with all the transaction apps feeding data into it. Until they started using BI Connector to connect from Tableau to OBIEE the users were downloading excel files from OBIEE and […]
OBIEE – Users struggle with it, try really hard to learn and use it, and eventually give up because of its complexity! But organizations love its meta data model, security model, and the governance it provides. Tableau – Users love it, find it easy to learn, and several have become Visualization Ninjas and Zen Masters by learning […]
We had a great audience for the inaugural BI connector webinar on “Can you replace OBIEE with Tableau?”. A big thank you to everyone who were able to participate in the webinar. The questions and discussions in the Q&A session were thoughtful and added tremendous value to the webinar audience. There were a number of […]
How do you fix your OBIEE platform’s shortcomings? This is the mystery that several organizations with OBIEE deployments are trying to figure out. I hope you will join me on January 13, 2016 for “Can you replace OBIEE with Tableau?” where I will discuss the options for addressing OBIEE challenges quickly and efficiently using Tableau. […]
How does BI connector compare to the native ODBC driver that comes with OBIEE? Why should you use BI connector rather than the OBIEE ODBC driver to connect from Tableau to OBIEE? These are valid questions asked by some of the BI Architects that we have spoken with. After learning about the difference between the […]
For several years Tableau users have wanted a way to connect to OBIEE and visualize the data or mashup OBIEE data with other external data. Before BI connector became available and made it as easy as pie, Tableau users were presented with two options – download the data from OBIEE reports and import it into Tableau or connect […]
Believe it or not, you are not alone. Many companies are still using OBIEE 10g as their business intelligence tool. We have seen several reasons for it. Many organizations do not have time, resources or budget to work on the upgrade. There was one case where the customer allocated significant resources to OBIEE 11g upgrade […]
The Blue Bell Company uses Oracle BI(OBIEE) to store the sales revenue and sales planning data. The Blue Bell team likes the meta data management capabilities of OBIEE. The sales team likes the ease and simplicity of Tableau. They are using BI connector to connect to OBIEE with Tableau. For one of the territories – Blue […]
Your Sales VP has asked you to prepare a report comparing the Revenue against Target Revenue by Products and Office. And she wants the report within 15 minutes for a meeting with the board! She doesn’t know that your data resides in OBIEE and that you have the data in two subjects areas, one for Sales data […]