Hello, Tableau

Three days ago, I started a new job as a Solution Architect for Tableau Software. I’ve been working with Tableau for the past three years, but never expected that I would go to work for Tableau. Needless to say, I’m very excited about this new direction in my career. I’m also excited to be deepening my knowledge of Tableau. I’ve loved working with the product. Nearly all of my experience is with Tableau Desktop, but in this new job, I’ll be assisting Tableau customers with building an enterprise solution that meets their needs.

With this in mind, I can also say that, as I learn more and more about Tableau, I will start writing articles here about Tableau. I still love BusinessObjects, and will continue to keep up with new developments in BusinessObjects. But I don’t expect to be writing much, if anything, about BusinessObjects in the future.

I don’t see Tableau and BusinessObjects as competitors. I think they complement each other nicely. BusinessObjects is an outstanding, and very mature, reporting tool, with some data visualization capabilities. Tableau is an outstanding data visualization tool, with some reporting capabilities. So they work well together.

In fact, I recently worked on a project evaluating tools that allow Tableau to connect to BusinessObjects. Some tools connect to universes, others connect to Webi documents. And some tools do both. It was an interesting project, and may find its way into a future blog post.

Thank you to those who have followed this blog. I’m excited to keep it going, with a new direction.