Earlier this year Snowflake added a new functionality called Access History. This feature will facilitate regulatory compliance and auditing, and will provide insights on popular and frequently accessed tables and columns.

Performance optimisation is a highly common concern in various contexts. In the context of Tableau dashboards, it mainly concerns how much time is needed to do an initial load of the dashboard as well as the time spent waiting when interacting with the dashboard using filters, highlighters, etc.

In this blog post, we will provide another example of this application, by analyzing tweets captured during the 2018 UEFA Champions League final match.

As always, the newest version (2021.4) added some great new features. One of them, much awaited, is virtual connections that also includes centralized row level security.

Tableau Prep is a powerful tool that makes data preparation simple and intuitive. It provides a visual and straightforward way to combine, shape, and clean data, making it easier for users to start their analysis.

With the 2020.3 release of Tableau, it is possible to write to external databases like SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Snowflake and others, via Tableau Prep.

Einstein is an intuitive tool in the Salesforce CRM that aims to facilitate AI-driven decision making.

While dealing with multiple data sources as input for a prep flow, it is common to encounter different column names for the same field.

Tableau’s URL actions are an extremely powerful tool, that allow you to access web-based resources through your dashboards. Here we will show how URL actions can be used to automate e-mail sending.

Tableau rolled out their new data model in their 2020.2 release. This data model introduced the concept of physical and logical tables in Tableau desktop, as well as of ‘relationships’ between logical tables.

In the beginning of May Tableau released version 2020.2 of Tableau Desktop, featuring a brand new data model.

Data comes in all forms and shapes and it is often required to fetch information from different data rows to calculate indicators. This can be achieved in Tableau Desktop using table calculations.