Data Analytics Tools - Tableau Software

Tableau Software:

What is Tableau Software?

Tableau is data analysis software that helps people observe and understand their data.

Tableau is one of the data visualization desk top application that give users the ability to analyzes any type of structured data and produce highly interactive dashboards, graphs and reports in few minutes so the users as a result can draw a conclusion via some visualizing data.

Some features of Tableau software:

1-     Ease of use. without programing just insight, users can analyze data by drag and drop.

2-     Fast Analytics. Visualizing data in few minutes

3-     Smart dashboard. It involves multiple views of data in order to give a rich vision

4-     Update automatically. Users have the option either to set an update schedule or they can get an automatic update.

5-     Share in few seconds. Users can publish dashboards by few clicks and share it on web or any mobile devices.

By using Tableau Reader which free viewing that anyone can read and interact with package work books that crated by Tableau desktop. And by using Tableau software, users can answer effectively any businesses questions by just drag and drop data into a free form visual canvas. Users can analyze, filter, query , graph, sort, calculate organize , summarize and present data more faster and in efficient way by using views.

Supply chain Analysis and Tableau

I wrote about supply chain Analytics in my blog, and how data and analytics are important for efficient supply chain process.

Organizations need to realize the value of data by transforming their data into valuable information, get clear vision and knowledge. Organizations will be able to make accurate decisions.

By using Tableau software within supply chain organizations. They have been able to identify inventory reduction opportunities of up to 40%

These organizations reach to four steps to the edge from supply chain data and analytics:

1-     Reveal: to analyze all parts of the supply chain. Organizations needs to import, cleanup and visualize supply chain.

2-     Diagnose: by using Tableau (dashboards), organizations can easily identify problems areas and solve it in efficient way.

3-     Model: compare supply chain policies and performance by stimulate process improvements.

4-     Track: set target plane of improvements.

To sum up, Tableau gives the organizations the ability to discover data, analyze it and create dashboard. Tableau software helps in analyzing supply chain by integrate data to reveal crucial problems and opportunities. Moreover, it helps in analyze shipping scheduling, inventory planning and transportation will be improved, delivery metrics will track in time.