I have few projects lined up wherein visuals in Tableau needs to be converted to power BI, Is there any tools available to do so.
please share your suggestions
Unfortunately, there is no tool that converts Tableau worksheet to PowerBI.
You cannot convert Tableau dashboards to PowerBi. However, you can try to replicate a visualization in Tableau in PowerBi. The degree of similarity will highly depend on the tools and features used in the Tableau dasboard which are proprietary to Tableau. If , say, a Tableau chart used is not present in PowerBi, then you are out of luck, unless you are good at programming! Then you can create a custom visual in PowerBi to be used in your dashboard.
And look at Powerbi Improvements suggestion ,They have this suggestion,Hoping to see it soon in the future.
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Did anyone incorporate Tableau reports within Powerapps? Can Tableau connect to Dataverse without a 3rd party tool? We are planning to move to Power Apps, but Tableau reports already exist, so wondering if easier to convert Tableau reports to Power BI.
Appreciate any insight
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Is it possible to create Power BI plots and data visualisations from data sets programmatically? I am wanting to use a csv file and create a chart on the fly. I couldn't really find much information online about doing this.
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Power BI supports R integration for data science and prediction. You may create a data frame and use csv data to do your analysis.
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-desktop-r-scripts/
http://www.r-tutor.com/r-introduction/data-frame/data-import
Yes you can, Microsoft has provided very good documentation for Custom Visuals.
Along side, to be specific to your question, you can use d3 library to work around with your csv file.
Note: Microsoft has deprecated the Power BI playground feature so you need to go through the documentation provided to create custom visual via CLI. Also a lot of online tutorials are based on Power BI playground, so make sure your read the documentation.
https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerBI-Visuals/
We are using Tableau Online as our BI platform, we currently have 150 users. What features on Tableau server that we are missing out on?
One of the things I recall is that we couldn't implement a font we wanted to use on Tableau Online but that would have been something very easy if we had server.
What other things we are missing?
Hope these resources would help you to understand the pros and cons better
https://community.tableau.com/thread/193134
http://www.marquisleadership.com/messages/tuesdays-with-tableau-tableau-server-vs-tableau-online
https://www.interworks.com/blog/bfair/2014/08/26/tableau-online-vs-tableau-server-5-things-consider
We will be migrating from BO 3.1 to BO 4.1.
It is proposed to manually schedule, save and compare reports from both environments then manually compare them. Surely all this can be automated?
Specifically, can we automate:
The scheduling and exporting of reports to a single network folder.
Comparing reports of different formats, i.e. Word, Excel, PDF, etc.
You can create report publications in each system to generate the reports to a folder and if they are generated as PDF's you could then use document comparison software, we use Compare Docs from Docs Corp for PDF and DOC comparisons.
We went through an upgrade of XIr2 to XI3.1 a few years back, as our finance team where the majority users of the reporting system we had them identify their top reports and focused on them, running the report in the two systems at the same time as we have some reports using a data warehouse and some using SQL and some queries ran even a couple minutes apart would affect the results. We then manually compared the reports.
You can use the BI Platform SDK to schedule reports--the link references a REST SDK, but there are COM and SOAP ones too.
In 4.0, you can use WebI's REST SDK to export the report's data; In 3.x, you need to use the COM SDK. There might also be a Java version.
If you want to mitigate the risk linked to manual or partial testing you can use 360bind designed only for Business Objects report testing going down to pixel level while comparing images.
how to integrate kdb/q with BI tools like cognos to create visualizations and graphs.
I have some historical data in KDB database and i want to plot trends using cognos BI tools?
You should be able to use the JDBC driver with Cognos BI tools. Simply:
Download the driver http://code.kx.com/q/interfaces/jdbc-client-for-kdb/
Configure the driver in Cognos.
Almost any BI tools that allow a jdbc will in fact work. If you are looking for charting that works out of the box with kdb try qStudio/sqlDashboards http://www.timestored.com/sqldashboards/ .
DISCLAIMER - I work for the company that produces the software. You can download a free version that allows charting kdb results etc.
There's no out-of-the box way of doing this as you won't be able to use the normal database connectors that come with these types of BI tools (they would have ODBC, etc). A very hairy option is simply to batch up a copy of the data in KDB to an SQL database that Cognos understands. Obvious disadvantages there.
I don't really know much about Cognos, but there seems to be some plugin development in the applications - maybe you can use the c# or c++ api to kdb to pass data along to the BI application.
EDIT
panopticon.com have some really funky data visualisations, if that's all you want.. Saw a demo once, very cool.
EDIT 2
I really should read questions more thoroughly :) Re trends, why not simply use R or the very many graphing applications for which you can have C# plugins? With R trending etc becomes an easy process. If you prefer Excel, you can interface with KDB directly (http://code.kx.com/q/interfaces/excel-client-for-q/)