Category Archives: BI reporting

Creating a Tableau Report level View Filter (1 report varying view depending on tableau user logged in)

Posted on April 15, 2018 by mx

Creating a Report level View Filter in Tableau (1 report varying view depending on tableau user logged in) use case: You want a report to show an employee’s daily sales and for the employee to only see his data and … Continue reading →

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Review of two New Cloud BI tools : Snowflake and Looker

Posted on October 16, 2016 by mx

Snowflake: data warehouse in the cloud (specially amazon) Snowflake compute is basically an analytics computing database that has scalability. Data is stored / shared on AWS S3 buckets instead of in snowfalek. You spin up snowflake tool injest and load into it’s proprietary … Continue reading →

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My personal review of a few top Business Intelligence tools

Posted on September 6, 2016 by mx

The Business Intelligence Space changes every year but some things remain the same. Here’s my reviews of some of the most common BI software in the market; some I have used extensively.   Top Dogs: (aka expensive enterprise software) MicroStrategy … Continue reading →

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The Report or Dashbard is taking forever to load

Posted on August 29, 2016 by mx

A general rule with BI reports and dashboards is 10 seconds or less for a report or 30 seconds for dashboards. But quite often an analyst will run a report and it never comes back. They’ll say something like so … Continue reading →

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