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Feature lists miss the point

June 29, 2010 by Ted Cuzzillo

So many people who should know better seem to miss the point when they mention Tableau. Why? I asked BI veteran Stephen McDaniel for his thoughts — which he gave, but then went on to suggest an almost unheard of challenge: a data analysis face-off among vendors.

Consider this description by a BI analyst: “Tableau provides business analysts speed of thought visual analysis on data held in memory on their desktop machines.” All that’s fine, but it may as well have been about a whole bunch of other tools, too.

At the root of this fuzz, explained McDaniel, is that most analysts who concern themselves with tools don’t actually use the tools.… Read the rest “Feature lists miss the point”

Filed Under: analysis & methods, BI industry Tagged With: analysis, events, Stephen McDaniel, Tableau, tools 10 Comments

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