The reason for point and click is that you need to be able to experiment and iterate quickly, which is what point and click is good for (ie tweaking knobs). BI is about asking lots of questions of your data and seeing which ones provide useful results.
If you already know what question you have in mind, then yeah, it's going to be a bit tedious.
Winner, winner. I am at a competitor of Tableau's, but the point remains the same. One of our favorite quotes was an upper executive at a major technology retailer who told us a version of "it's so cheap to fail with you guys".
There are absolutely needs for engineers who (deeply) understand SQL, can write python code, and can whip up a d3 chart. But that's an expensive project.
There are many, many more individuals in organizations who would make much smarter decisions if they learned a tiny bit of SQL, a basic data warehouse, and were presented with a GUI tool (PowerBI, Tableau, Qlik, etc, etc).
Exactly, mainly because nobody has a clue of their own data, so fast iteration is a must, and engineering in the IT departments supporting these solutions are some of the most clueless engineers I met.
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The reason for point and click is that you need to be able to experiment and iterate quickly, which is what point and click is good for (ie tweaking knobs). BI is about asking lots of questions of your data and seeing which ones provide useful results.
If you already know what question you have in mind, then yeah, it's going to be a bit tedious.
Winner, winner. I am at a competitor of Tableau's, but the point remains the same. One of our favorite quotes was an upper executive at a major technology retailer who told us a version of "it's so cheap to fail with you guys".
There are absolutely needs for engineers who (deeply) understand SQL, can write python code, and can whip up a d3 chart. But that's an expensive project.
There are many, many more individuals in organizations who would make much smarter decisions if they learned a tiny bit of SQL, a basic data warehouse, and were presented with a GUI tool (PowerBI, Tableau, Qlik, etc, etc).
Exactly, mainly because nobody has a clue of their own data, so fast iteration is a must, and engineering in the IT departments supporting these solutions are some of the most clueless engineers I met.