Tableau vs OBIEEJeff Shauer, Owner, JS Business Intelligence

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Speaker Bio

• Jeff Shauer founder and owner of JS Business Intelligence

• Worked as a consultant, contractor, and employee• Experience in developing, maintaining, owning, and

managing financial planning systems at small, medium, and Fortune 500 corporations

• BIWA Board Member

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Disclaimer

• These slides represent the work and opinions of the presenter and do not constitute official positions of Oracle or any other organization

• This material should not be reproduced without written permission of JS Business Intelligence, LLC.

• We are not responsible and will not compensate to you if you ever happen to suffer a loss/inconvenience/damage because of/while making use of this information.

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Agenda• Overview• Key Benefits of Tableau• Key Benefits of OBIEE• Compared Side by Side• When to use Tableau vs OBIEE• Data Tips• Art of Story Telling • Demo/Other Considerations • Questions

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Objectives• Understand the value of Tableau, OBIEE and when to use each one

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Big Data, Hyperion and BI Integration Session Overview

Included:--Value of Tableau, BI -- Other Considerations

Not Included:--Complex discussion of individual case issues

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Business Technology

Analysis

Subject Matter

Knowledge

Hyperion

Informatica

Oracle

BI Integration

What is BI? BI=Business + TechnologyForecasting

BI End user reporting

Big Data

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Why do it? The value of OBIEE

• Build out report groups/subject areas and do modeling from different sources• Include Budget and Plan data into OBIEE Reporting• Integrate data from different sources and map them together• Master metadata modeling and data integration at an enterprise level• Real Time Data • Caching for slow data sets• Alerts Security• Cost is per server license• Advanced Analytics

• Integrated advanced analytics and large quantities of data into an easily reportable source OBIEE, e.g. Customer Segmentations, Fraud

• Unstructured Data• Analyze Structured and unstructured data together, e.g. Web Logs

• Use one overall main reporting source• Easily Create Alerts: Plan for a business that is proactive and not reactive• Can use Machine Learning algorithms that alert the business to issues all the way down to alerts in

OBIEE• Take advantage of OBIEE Alerts and let executives know when to review data—Budget Shortfall,

Inventory Shortage, etc..• Structure data so that it can be found based on clear content and structure

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Why do it? The value of Tableau

• Easy to import data, create simple modeling, empower end-user• Easy to use/visualize• Easy to Tell Stories• Security• Advanced Analytics

• Integrated advanced analytics and large quantities of data into an easily reportable source OBIEE, e.g. Customer Segmentations, Fraud

• Unstructured Data• Analyze Structured and unstructured data together, e.g. Web Logs

• Cost is high per developer license

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Comparison OBIEE vs TableauComparison OBIEE TableauEase of Development

Need Trained Developers

Easy to Empower End Users

Enterprise Reporting

Easy to control/setup/Deploy/cleanup

Harder to Manage Sprawling system

Story Telling Possible, but more difficult

Easy to use Story Pieces

Visualization Decent Great fast

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Comparison OBIEE vs TableauComparison OBIEE TableauData Sources Many Sources

available Larger group of data sources available

Security Robust RobustSpeed Fast, can add

caching, depends on size of data

Caching? On backend source

Stability Depends on setup

Depends on setup

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Data Tips--So much possible Data and it’s a mess!

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Reporting

Big Data

Hyperion

Relational

Combining Data Sources together and Clean it up so you can use it!

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Data Tips--So much possible Data and it’s a mess!• Tableau vs OBIEE, don’t let your user reports and system generated reports get out of hand• Have data governance process and report governance process• CLEANUP old unused reports/systems• Keep Data structures simple• Tell Stories—create meaningful Dashboards and Reporting

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OBIEE Modeling—steps

• Physical, Business Model and Mapping and Presentation Layers

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OBIEE Data Source Integration Steps• Import new Physical Data souce 12C—Hadoop or Cloudera

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OBIEE Big Data integration—steps• Make sure ODBC Drivers are setup to and from Source, need to

math RPD OBDC Name• Drag over to rest of RPD

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OBIEE Big Data integration—Tips• Hive Access can be slow, be aware of how large a data set you

are using• Impala also has a data source that can be used. Latency for Impala

queries was better• Use caching/offloading strategy for large data sources• Can use Real-time Streaming to setup data sources and OBIEE to

access data. • Can use Hadoop as dumping ground for data that you don’t ETL/have

access to otherwise • Look forward to using additional Big Data Sources—Spark, etc as time

goes on!

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Tableau vs OBIEE Reporting Tips—Putting it all together

• Keep simple reporting solutions as much as possible• Give power to end-users but don’t create unusable solutions• Identify and map out user common requests and group them together• Tell a story with your data• Show users clearly and easily where to get different pieces of data, the

more integration/combing/less thinking users have to do the happier they will be!

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Key Takeaways• Understand the business value of Tableau and OBIEE• Understand the capabilities and how to do best use Tableau vs OBIEE

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Thank You

• Jeff Shauer, Tableau vs OBIEE• For further questions, contact information is:

• jeffs@jsbusinessintelligence.com• Cell: 240-205-3042• http://www.jsbusinessintelligence.com• Twitter: @BIWA_SIG

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