At Panoply, we get a lot of customers who are looking to use Grafana to analyze data stored in DynamoDB instances. If you’ve ever looked into this, you’ve probably seen that Grafana doesn’t have any native support for DynamoDB, and…
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Ecommerce is getting more competitive every day as big players like Amazon and Alibaba consume more markets and scrappy D2C players try to disrupt them.It is impossible to ignore the competitive edge that data has provided for companies large and…
Continue reading Building Shopify Dashboards in Tableau, Power BI and Google Data Studio
There are so many different types of business intelligence (BI) tools in the market now, such as Looker, Mode, Tableau, Periscope, etc. As the go-to-data-person at my company, which one should I use to analyze data with and how should…
Continue reading Tableau vs. Mode: Comparing Pricing, Integrations and Deployment
We recently worked with Aron Clymer, CEO of the data consulting firm Data Clymer to show you how you can consolidate all of your analyze your Shopify ecommerce data from any number of sources into a data warehouse and display…
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Why should people care about visualizing data? Visualizing data can lead to quicker and easier decision making because it allows the user to spot trends, outliers, and other key insights that they wouldn’t have been able to glean from simply…
Continue reading How to Build Visualizations in Tableau Optimally
Humans are visually motivated. When we see a movie, we’re drawn to the most beautiful and exotic settings, the most striking and recognizable actors, the biggest explosions. What we don’t spend a lot of time thinking about is the work…
Continue reading Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Meet: Magic Ensues
Business Intelligence (BI) has, by tradition, been a long and drawn out process. In the early days of computers, BI tools such as SAP/Crystal Reports and IBM/Cognos came along to speed things up. Both, however, need extensive development and IT…
Preparing data for Business Intelligence (BI) can be a very tedious and time consuming process. You want the data to turn into the best reports for analysis. But, the raw data needs lots of processing and handling before you can…
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Is it easy to connect to a data warehouse? Selecting the right tool can help make this connection attainable. Tableau Desktop makes this connection easy, from opening the software to connecting to the five selected data warehouses. Tableau uses the…
Are you considering a career as a BI Architect? You have made an excellent choice. Business Intelligence Architects are some of the leading minds in business and information management. They use data components and information management systems to organize data…
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Data analyst? You must be familiar with both Tableau and AWS Redshift. And you must know, or at least you should believe me that integrating the Redshift columnar-based database speed with the mature, rich and interactive Tableau creates an awesome…
Continue reading Tableau & Redshift: How to Visualize Amazon Redshift Data
This is the third and final part in the 101 series covering big data concepts, terminology and technologyWhen I joined panoply.io I was clueless as to what data driven meant, much less big data and the technologies that drive it.…
