Tableau in the Cloud:A Netflix OriginalAlbert Wong - Enterprise Reporting Platform

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●Culture●Cloud●Scalability●Development

A Closer Look● User Account Management● Emails● Navigation● Big Data● Governance

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Emailing

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Personalization

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Navigation

Navigation

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Amazon Redshift

Tableau data extract

Netflix + Tableau API

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Tableau data extract

Netflix + Tableau APINetflix SQL Repository

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