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On average, an organization uses 3–4 different business intelligence solutions. Of those tools, two of the most popular are Tableau and PowerBI.¹
If you work in this space, this shouldn’t be a surprise. If anything else, you are probably rolling your eyes and thinking, “Of course”.
Speaking from personal experience, I’ve worked in a team of 10 where different team members were working in QlikView, Tableau and PowerBI. That wasn’t even organization wide. That was just my team.
This wouldn’t be such a big deal if it weren’t for the following:
- We didn’t have a license to use all three, we just had the one license to work in the tool we were allocated.
- We couldn’t share our work with our team. We had to constantly organize times to catch up to discuss any interesting data points or insights.
- We couldn’t share our work with our stakeholders. The best option we had was taking screenshots of a dashboard and presenting them in a Powerpoint presentation.
- We didn’t know if the work we were doing had been undertaken before. There could have been a whole catalogue of dashboards and reports available that we would never have known existed.
You could argue that some bad decisions were made that contributed to that situation. But that situation wasn’t unique to my old team. This is something that we’ve encountered time and time again in our consulting business. So what can we do about it?
dablr
Our product, dablr, is an analytics collaboration platform, designed to leverage your existing data visualisation tools, and centralise your assets in one place. This includes (but is not limited to):
- Tableau
- Microsoft PowerBI
- AWS QuickSight
With dablr, you can subscribe to different Tableau, PowerBI or Quicksight dashboards (or other assets like Excel files or Powerpoint presentations). This will show up on your home screen, where you can organise and categorise them for quick access.
The dablr catalogue centralises all of the existing dashboards into one location, so that you can easily search for dashboards and request access from within the same platform.
Based on your subscriptions and your team’s subscriptions, dablr will recommend to you useful content that you may not have been aware of, including any assets that are trending in your organization.
These are just a few ways dablr can help leverage your existing business intelligence applications. But there’s a lot more, a whole lot more!
In a lot of ways, dablr was born out of our frustrations with how data teams, and the software that supports them, is organised. We wanted to build software that catered to the different stakeholders that use data, and create something that made it easier and more fun to interact with data.
If you want to contribute, and be a part of the dablr journey: Sign up to our waitlist.
