by Ted Cuzzillo
How do you show the value of visual analysis to business people? Dan Murray can show it in demos, but he keeps looking for the “magic dust” that explains in a snap.
He sees visual analysis as a key part of low-cost business intelligence at small- and medium-sized organizations — and he’s set out with evangelical zeal to provide as many of these firms as he can with BI.
by Ted Cuzzillo
Dan Murray expects to take another step this week in his thrilling rebellion, spreading the word on high value, low cost BI.
Though it’s a rebellion and may burn with Che Guevara-type zeal, Dan’s methods actually lean way over toward Darwinian evolution. Revolution is expensive and risky, he writes, while evolution is intelligent and incremental. He also likes to point out that Che died brutally at 39 and Darwin died at 73 in bed with family around him.
First, people have to learn the basics, that tough work to create a data warehouse. His rebellion does it with Tableau, spreadsheets and a little guidance.… Read the rest “Blog for the times: on high-value, low-cost BI”
by Ted Cuzzillo
Dan Murray’s taking on Big BI — and in just under two weeks at the Tableau Customer Conference in Seattle, he’s going to explain his four steps to rebellion — that is, “a high value, low cost BI reporting system.”
Dan devised the system when the company he worked for — which had revenue of about $70 million — couldn’t afford solutions from Big BI vendors. Bids ranged from $130,000 to $580,000.
Dan built his own with Tableau and Excel. The final cost, he writes, was $40,000 — $8000 for Tableau Desktop Pro and the rest for the database and ETL logic.… Read the rest “Thrilling rebellion”