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Golf Solutions Designed at Barnham Broom Golf Club in Norfolk

 Many sports tend to be biassed towards one sex or another. For example, football is a sport dominated by men and does not become much more masculine than rugby! On the other side of the fence, netball definitely falls into the women's category. However, there are some sports that share gender gracefully, which appeal to both men and women. Reddit live streaming Golf is undoubtedly one of these sports and has no age limits. Spread across courses in the UK you will find some unlikely groups of people bound by their love for this great outdoor sport. Some will play every day, while others will only play on the weekends, perhaps as a way to relieve the stress of a difficult week at the office. No golfer tends to join a club and membership packages vary widely in price. Most golf clubs simply offer standard packages with the assumption that one size fits all and offers a bit of flexibility. However, some offer more realistic membership packages, considering how much you will be playing...

Data Analytics for Online Shops

Making shopping a smooth and easy experience is the goal of many online shops. But how can easy website navigation be optimized? Unlike the physical shops, you cannot talk to the sales people in the online shops and a customer should find his or her way through the online shop. And unlike pysical shops, online shops can have hundreds of thousands of visitors every day. To optimize the shopping experience, some important questions should be answered : Why do customers put products into their shopping cart and do not buy them at the end? Was it because of the sales process or he/she liked another product simply better? What impact has a customer's drop from a detail page? Where are the differences in customer behavior depending on the different product groups, Customer types or assortments? What are the figures compared to the previous year? Were there any technical errors? Was the accessibility of all pages always guaranteed? Traditionally, answering these questions require a lot of...

Big Data Analytics in real-time with EXASOL and Tableau webinar

If you are using Tableau’s great BI, reporting and visualization software to see and understand your data, but are struggling with performance or just want to overcome the limitations of Tableau Data Extracts (TDE), EXASOL is the solution you need. Using EXASOL as the analytic database engine to power your Tableau server and client, means that you will be able to accelerate your reporting and visualizations dramatically by boosting your Tableau performance. EXASOL is the world’s fastest in-memory, high-performance (Massive Parallel Processing or MPP), analytic database which is designed for big data analytics. EXASOL makes large volumes of data analysis in real-time possible, which helps you to accelerate your Business Intelligence and Analytics applications. EXASOL is ideally suited for real-time big data reporting, analysis, and advanced analytics. EXASOL also enables in database analytics. It supports R, Python, Java, Lua or your preferred programming language to build analytic app...

What is Exasol?

Data analytics on very large sets of data can be frustrating in terms of performance. Many Business Intelligence applications like Tableau can annoyingly get slow when you are trying to perform real time analysis on large data sets. Solution is usually consolidating and thus reducing the size of the data but this requires extra development and scripts to maintain plus, you lose the granularity of the data. A good solution to this problem is EXASOL, worlds fastest in-memory, high-performance (Massive Parallel Processing or MPP), analytic database which is designed for big data analytics. EXASOL makes large volumes of data analysis in rel-time possible, which helps you to accelerate your Business Intelligence and Analytics applications. EXASOL is ideally suited for real-time big data reporting, analysis, and advanced analytics. EXASOL deploys two techniques together : Massive Parallel Processing (MPP) which enables clusters of hardware running EXASOL to achieve the task and in-m...

Dramatically speed up your Tableau visualizations with EXASOL

Tableau is one of the best Business Intelligence and Data Visualization software in the market today. Its game changing drag-and-drop, self-service experience is unparalleled and it is popularly used worldwide. Tableau is highly optimized and works quite fast in many applications but in applications where you need to read large volumes of data, like hundreds of millions or billions of rows, it can get dramatically slow (yes there are some illustrations of Tableau with large datasets but they are very isolated, single report demos and in a real life dashboard things can get pretty slow if you need to reaf more than 100 million rows). Tableau is aware of this problem so back in March 2016, they have purchased HyPer , a high performance database system initially developed as a research project at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Unfortunately, they did not release any plan for the availability of HyPer yet. Luckily, there is already a solution out there, more established and po...

Tableau 10 Data Visualization Software Webinar (with Step-by-step demo)

You are invited to Tableau 10 Data Visualization Software webinar on June 9th and June 16th 2017. In this free event, you will have a chance to learn how a state of the art data visualization platform like Tableau can help you to explore and analyse your data. Thanks to Tableau’s intuitive GUI and drag-and-drop data visualization capabilities, everyone in your organization can easily create flexible, interactive visualizations and make meaningful decisions. The event will also demonstrate a step-by-step Tableau demo which will show how you can create stunning interactive data analysis dashboards intuitively by just simple drag-and-drop interfaces. You will learn how to explore data with smart visualizations that automatically adapts to the parameters you set — no need for developers, data scientists or designers. We will also cover what are new functionalities in Tableau 10 and Tableau 10.2. There are 4 date / time slots available for the event. Tableau Event Information: Venue : W...

Qlikview to Tableau Migration

Tableau is one of the most popular Business Intelligence software in the market today. Many organizations are adapting Tableau recently and trying to migrate from their old Business Intelligence platform to Tableau. In this post, we will focus on QlikView to Tableau migration. Effort needed to migrate from QlikView to Tableau depends on the way your QlikView software is implemented. In some cases, the data needed for QlikView Dashboard is completely prepared in a 3rd party tool so when migrating to Tableau, you do not need to convert ETL (extraction - transformation - load) code. But in most cases, ETL for QlikView is implemented using Qlik's own query language, AQL (QlikView is based upon patented technology called Associative Query Logic (AQL)). Tableau does not provide a native ETL functionality so when migrating from QlikView to Tableau, you will probably need a 3rd solution to implement ETL for Tableau. The exception above is of course keeping QlikView for ETL and just convert...

Tableau Data Integration

Tableau may be a great data visualization tool but it has very limited functionality for data blending and data integration. Worse, most customers misunderstand "self service business intelligence concept" and think that they will get Tableau and without any data integration they can connect to the databases and create visualization (customers are actually made to believe this with Tableau's sales pitch). Unfortunately, most business data is stored in complex relational database management systems or ERP which is very difficult, if not impossible to connect directly. Thus, many companies buying self service business intelligence solution realize that they cannot use it effectively due to this limitation. Solution for this Tableau data integration problem is developing a  data integration with a non-Tableau application which is purpose built for this function. This data integration layer will simplify, consolidate and usually enrich the complex transactional data and will ...

Tableau subscription pricing model

Tableau Software is finally making the big change in the way it sells its business intelligence products: they have announced their new  Tableau subscription pricing  for all its products, including Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server. These new pricing model will potentially lower the threshold for users looking to gain access to a full-fledged analytics platform. Tableau subscription prices are now as below : Tableau Desktop Personal subscription price is US$35 per user per month Tableau Desktop Professional subscription price is $70 per user per month Tableau Server subscription price is US$35 per user per month Tableau Enterprise offerings prices are not public but this is also available under  Tableau subscription model. Tableau perpetual prices are $1000 for Tableau Desktop Personal, $2000 for Tableau Desktop Professional and $1000 for Tableau Server per user. The perpetual model also comes with 20% yearly license maintenance. Since Microsoft Power BI entered the mar...

Tableau has acquired HyPer high performance database system

Tableau has announced the acquisition of HyPer, in-memory, high performance database system designed for simultaneous, high performance OLTP and OLAP processing. Hyper high-performance database system will be integrated into Tableau’s product offerings and bring a host of new capabilities to Tableau customers such as faster analysis of large data sizes, richer analytics, enhanced data integration and data transformation as well as support for semi-structured and unstructured data. Tableau is highly optimized and works quite fast in many applications but in applications where you need to read large volumes of data, like hundreds of millions or billions of rows, it can get dramatically slow (yes there are some illustrations of Tableau with large datasets but they are very isolated, single report demos and in a real life dashboard things can get pretty slow if you need to reaf more than 100 million rows). There are some other tools also available in the market with native Tableau data...

Data Visualization by Tableau Introduction in Singapore

If you are looking for a chance to know Tableau data visualization platform in Singapore, Knowledge Management Solutions , a Business Intelligence and Data Visualization solution provider and Tableau partner in Singapore, is offering a half day free Introduction to Data Visualization with Tableau 9 Tableau is a business intelligence and data visualization software platform that allows anyone to connect to data in a few clicks, then visualize and create interactive, shareable dashboards with a few more. It’s easy enough that any Excel user can learn it, but powerful enough to satisfy even the most complex analytical problems. Securely sharing your findings with others only takes seconds. The result is BI software that you can trust to actually deliver answers to the people that need them. Data Visualization with Tableau in Singapore Who should attend? Business people, General Managers, Analysts, Operations Managers, IT Managers, HR Managers, Finance Managers, Marketing Managers, Sales ...

Free Tableau Demo in Singapore for manufacturing

Tableau Software has recently released their brand new data visualization platform version, Tableau 9.0 in April and in June officially released the new version in Singapore. If you are keen to try out this mind blowing self-service business intelligence platform, you can download a free Tableau download (14-days trial) and also watch this 23 minute full demo of the platform, Getting Started with Tableau . For those in Singapore, Knowledge Management Solutions, an official Tableau Software partner based in Singapore (with offices in Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Jakarta) is conducting a full 1.5 hour demo of Tableau on 31st July 2015 - 9:30am - 11am in Singapore Management University campus. You can see the details and form to register here : Tableau for Business Users Event . This Tableau 9.0 demo for Business Users event is regularly conducted and this session targets manufacturing. Still, it is offers a demo for every one including non-manufacturing industries to experience how Tab...

Navision Sales Analyzer Dashboard

Navision Sales Analyzer is a Business Intelligence Dashboard for sales which built on the powerful Tableau data visualization platform. Developed by Singapore based  Knowledge Management Solutions , it empowers Microsoft Navision users to analyze and visualize data and to make strategic calls about sales and marketing. Plan revenue Analyze the impact of promotions Discover performance of products Compare product market share Vs. market growth Perform market basket analysis See customer buying behaviour clearly You can watch a video introduction of Navision sales analyzer below. If you would like to find out more, KMS has a free demo event to introduce the product to the market. Click here to join : KMS Navision Sales Analyzer Demo .

What is Tableau Drive?

With skyrocketing revenues and number of 100K USD deals (a gauge showing enterprise adaptation of a business software), Tableau is getting fast into enterprise-wide BI deployment. As the emphasis on "Tableau for Enterprise" was significantly higher in this years Tableau Customer Conference (September 2014), Tableau Software has also released Tableau Drive, a  methodology for scaling out self-service analytics. So what is Tableau Drive? This is a freely available methodology relying on iterative, agile methods that are faster and more effective than traditional long-cycle deployment. A cornerstone of this approach is a new model of a partnership between business and IT. In Drive methodology, IT owns the “Center of Operations” and business owns analytics and the “Center of Evangelism”. Tableau Software released the methodology ahead of Tableau 9.0 which is expected in the first quarter of 2015. Tableau 9.0 is expected to have a lot of improvements in scalability some ...

Tableau ready for Enterprise BI

Tableau , one of the most popular BI tools in the market today, is truly an amazing and comprehensive platform. Yet, many still think that Tableau just an eye candy toy tool, good for making pretty pictures but not for a serious, enterprise BI level platform. This is absolutely not true (if this was true, Tableau would not be in the leaders quadrant of Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms 2014 ). Tableau offers tremendous efficiency, productivity, flexibility, performance and cost savings. Some discovers this accidentally, they bring Tableau in the project as their personal tool to understand data and then Tableau's highly viral nature carries it into the hearth of enterprise BI. Some innovative project teams head starts enterprise BI with Tableau and usually awarded successful implementations ("usually" because some teams will always have the ability to screw up projects even with great tools). You can see this in numbers. In Q2 2014, there we...

Data Visualization for Shipping Industry

This powerful white boarding and demo of a Revenue and Profit Analysis of a shipping company is a rare gem which shows how a powerful data visualization plarform (Tableau in this case) can help companies to analyze their data and dig deep into "why"s. The video is prepared by a Tableau customer in Indonesia, a leading Shipping and Shipyard Company named PT Usda Seroja Jaya, to introduce their new data visualization platform, Tableau, to their users. The video starts with a white boarding presentation to illustrate how data analytics can help the company to improve decision making process. The second half of the video is a detailed Tableau demo, a rare data analytics demo for shipping industry. The Tableau demo is also a nice self-service BI presentation for this powerful application. Tableau is business intelligence software that allows anyone to connect to data in a few clicks, then visualize and create interactive, sharable dashboards with a few more. It's easy enough t...

Tableau, Qlikview, TIBCO, SAS, and Oracle gets best business intelligence ratings

Tableau Desktop has been rated as the best business intelligence platform by business software reviews site G2 Crowd users.  Tableau, the long time category winner, was followed by QlikView, TIBCO Spotfire, SAS BI and Oracle BI. The Grid for Business Intelligence by G2 Crowd rates and profiles business intelligence products. Products shown on the Grid for Business Intelligence have received a minimum of 10 reviews in data gathered by September 19th, 2014. Products are ranked by customer satisfaction (based on user reviews) and market presence (based on market share, vendor size, and social impact) and placed into four categories on the Grid : Leaders, Contenders, Niche and High Performers. Leaders offer Business Intelligence products that are rated highly by G2 Crowd users and have substantial scale, market share, and global support and service resources. According to G2 Crowd Grid for Business Intelligence, Tableau Desktop, QlikView, TIBCO Sportfire, SAS BI and Oracle BI we...

Tableau 9.0 release date and overview

Tableau Software has finally released the new version of its benchmark setting data visualization and business intelligence platform, Tableau 9.0 today on April 7th 2015. The new version comes with an entirely new experience for Tableau Server, significant performance improvements, new data preparation features, drag-and-drop analytics, updates to mapping and much more. Tableau 8 has been a phenomenal success[1] for data visualization and business intelligence platform provider Tableau Software after the release of Tableau 8.3, everybody was waiting for the new version : Tableau 9.  Tableau 9 release date  is postponed a few times. In Tableau Conference 2013, the expectation was that Tableau 8.1 would be released in fall 2013, Tableau 8.2 in winter 2014 and Tableau 9.0 later in 2014. Tableau 9.0 release date is later pushed to Q1 2015 and in March one more time to April 2015. But this is a release worth waiting. There are many significant improvements in Tableau 9.0 over Table...

What is Tableau Project Elastic?

Project Elastic is the code name for a new tablet-based product by Tableau Software which was first announced in Tableau Conference 2014 . Tableau Elastic Technology is designed specifically with mobile users in mind and aims to help users to ask questions to their data using just their two fingers and making fairly complicated queries, are just a tap, swipe, scroll or pinch away. Tableau's VP of Mobile, Dave Story, has demonstrated the product in annual Tableau customer conference. What we can see up to now is that Tableau Software is basically building a new iPad app (or tablet app). In the presentation, Dave Story took an email attachment (a data file listing sales information about a local sandwich shop) and opened it in the Tableau Elastic app. The app immediately opens with a view of a chart showing categories of products sold at the shop. As other Tableau user interfaces, Elastic is also "drag-and-drop" based. With taps, swipes and scrolls, you can easily change...

What is new in Tableau 8.2 Release

Tableau 8.2 was released on June 18, 2014 and Tableau 8.2 Tour stop in Singapore was held on Wednesday July 23, 2014. The new release is already in 8.2.2 (released in August 21) and contains a lot of exiting features. The release includes the first-ever Mac OS version of Tableau Desktop, Story Points for interactive, data-driven storytelling, a more visual connection experience with data previews and improved experience in defining data table joins, and updated maps, in addition to enhancements to simplify administration and support of Tableau Server. Here is a list of major new features in Tableau 8.2. Tableau Desktop on the Mac The revolutionary technology of Tableau Desktop now runs natively on the Mac. It’s the full analytics package, built to support high-resolution Retina displays, Mac-specific controls, and also all of your existing Tableau workbooks. Story Points One of the most anticipated features of Tableau 8.2, Story Telling lets you create compelling, interactive, data...

Analyzing Google Analytics data in Tableau

Google Analytics is the  most widely used website statistics service. It provides a great online platform to analyze your web site traffic. Although it provides powerful charts, reports and dashboards to analyze data, if you have needed to use it professionally, you hit its limitations frequently and do the following : Export the Google Analytics data to Excel and try to analyze it there. This manual and tedious process is always needed if you are trying to merge Google Analytics data and some other data in your analysis. We know that Tableau provides a great data visualization tool and we could leverage its power to analyze Google Analytics data. But to bring the data into Tableau was tedious; you should export it first (to Excel manually or by using Google Analytics API and lots of scripting). Not anymore! With Tableau version 8 onwards, Tableau Software has released Google Analytics connector which makes it quite easy to pull in your Google Analytics data into Tableau. This do...