The Tableau Platform & DenodoDemocratizing Data for Business Users with Self-Service BI

Nicolas Brisoux – Staff Product Managernbrisoux@tableau.com

We help see and understand datapeople

“The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data”

Source: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21721656-data-economy-demands-new-approach-antitrust-rules-worlds-most-valuable-resource

May 6, 2017

What Does That Mean?

Self-Service

Business

Users

Managers Executives Partners Customers

Internal Users

DISPARATE DATA SOURCES

Databases & Warehouses, Cloud/Saas Applications, Big Data, NoSQL, Web, XML, Excel, PDF, Word...

Less Structured

More Structured

DATA VIRTUALIZATION

Design Tools

Optimization Engine

Data Discovery & Search

In-memory Fabric

Cache

Scheduler

CONNECT COMBINE CONSUME

Share, Deliver,

Publish, Govern,

Collaborate

Discover,

Transform,

Prepare, Improve

Quality, Integrate

Normalized

views of

disparate data Data Services (Real-time & On-demand)

Data catalog / Metadata

Governance

Security

Management & Monitoring

Universal Semantic Layer

External Users

Why a universal semantic layer?

• Democratizes the data by putting a logical layer on top of raw data

models

• Provides a common repository that helps business users to search and

discover data, and view the lineage, associations, and relationships

• Centralizes security

• Single path to the truth

Tableau & Denodo

• Flexible deployment options

• Leverage existing technology investments

• Flexibility to meet changing requirements

• Governance that doesn’t restrict the business