Fabtech Here We Come! Our very own, Paul Ausserer will be presenting at the Fabtech – North America's Largest Metal Forming, Fabricating, Welding and Finishing Event, in Chicago, IL. Join us Monday, November 11 at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL. Paul will be presenting in the Smart Manufacturing education section, in the Current State of Smart Manufacturing & The Connected Viewpoint talk track at 8:45 am. Paul’s presentation: The Connected Viewpoint: The New Era of Data for Industry 4.0 is a great fit for those in the manufacturing vertical who want to learn more about the opportuniti ..read more

Tableau + Salesforce Dream Team. We’re all about this landmark Marquis Moment. What a monumental week for data, digital transformation, and for pure innovation. The world has been abuzz with the Salesforce acquisition of Tableau. It’s bubbling up on social media, over water cooler conversations, and headlining across major news outlets. Even people who don’t live and breathe data like we do, are talking about this significant union. And it’s easy to see why. The combination of these two powerhouse organizations from a pure infrastructure standpoint is noteworthy, for sure. And all of the publi ..read more

Inventory On-Hand - KPI Spotlight With profit margins more crunched than ever, the surest way to improve returns is by increasing your asset velocity. Get faster insight into your inventory turns with a custom Tableau dashboard. With just a few clicks, drill down to quickly discover exactly which items are moving too slowly so you can take action to accelerate your turns. No need to wait weeks or months to get your inventory terms from Finance. Promote collaboration between Finance, Operations, and Sales by sharing it via Tableau's interactive, web-based analytics platform. Our clien ..read more

Getting full value for your investment in Tableau requires much more than completing a PO, getting a new server spun up, and installing the software. While Tableau’s mission is “to help people see and understand their data”, all too often, implementation efforts fail to fully account for the “people” side of the equation. The fact is that any change in technology requires a change in behavior – if you want to get the full intended value for your investment. As anyone with a dusty exercise bike in the garage can tell you, even the most top-of-the-line technology is worthless unless people actua ..read more

Sometimes the best visual is an arrow. With Tableau, it’s easy to include arrows to make a point about business performance. While colorful bar charts, scatter plots, and line graphs can visually highlight key information, a set of tiles or small table of numbers can succinctly indicate the health of a business. By adding up and down arrows with color next to a number, you can show the value of that number relative to another time period or a forecast. In this way, you provide context and meaning – is $1 million of sales good or bad, for example? If your forecast was for $2 million, then a red ..read more

A Marquis Moment - Adaptive Biotechnologies Marquis Moments are moments worth celebrating. They're not about us, they are about you. When we hit a monumental milestone, make a transformation, or just plain win, we like to take a moment to recognize it.  Today, we celebrate one of our North American BioTech Clients: Adaptive Biotechnologies Helping clients achieve flexible, self-service analytics in the cloud or on-prem is what we do daily.  We are continually inspired by our clients' work. And with Adaptive Biotechnologies, we can't help but feel like the work they are doing is ..read more

I think we can all agree, Tableau looks great in a demo with the sample data stored in Excel. But the true test of a self-service analytics tool is working with real data that may reside in more than a single Excel workbook. Thankfully, Tableau has two different methods of combining data to give the user flexibility: data joining and data blending. I want to address a few potential misunderstandings and highlight a few caveats to keep in mind when using either method. Data Joining When you want to work with multiple tables or views within a source (e.g., tables from the same database ..read more

Data Shaping is Important. Read on to learn why: We all have tons of data, but do we use it to the fullest? We don’t need to convince anyone of the need to use data to make decisions. When you use your data, you see clearer. You see the road behind, you predict the road ahead, and you can make the right decisions navigating your path. But, if you’re like most organizations, you have data collected, but making sense of it is overwhelming. We all have employees who have too much on their plate, and even knowing where to start with data shaping, let alone having the time to do it seems impossible ..read more

VIDEO TRAINING SERIES: Post 10 of 10 Welcome to the tenth post in our Marquis Academy training series on Quick Tips for Tableau Server. EXPORT TO PDF/JPG/CSV In our last video, you learned about how to get the data you need delivered to your inbox, without having to visit Tableau Server. In this video, we’ll show you another way to get your data out of Tableau Server – by downloading it. ----------------------------------------------------- To download your data, click on the download icon to reveal your output options. There are five options listed – Image, Data, Crosstab, PDF, and Tableau Wo ..read more

VIDEO TRAINING SERIES: Post 9 of 10 Welcome to the ninth post in our Marquis Academy training series on Quick Tips for Tableau Server. DATA DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX In this series, you’ve learned a lot about how to navigate Tableau Server to get the data that you need. But did you know that you can also let your data come to you? Subscribe to a view to get an image of your most up-to-date dashboard delivered directly to your inbox. ----------------------------------------------------- To get your data delivered to your inbox, simply click on the envelope icon. You have a few options in this dia ..read more