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Is there any standard / established documentation on converting Tableau 'code' to WebFOCUS? If so, where?This message has been edited. Last edited by: Doug,
In FOCUS Since 1983 ~ from FOCUS to WebFOCUS. Current: WebFOCUS Administrator at FIS Worldpay | 8204, 8206
Posts: 3132 | Location: Tennessee, Nashville area | Registered: February 23, 2005
I just got the message from on high that all new development will be in Tableau. We are not far from Tableau's corporate offices so you can imagine how many of their sales reps are swarming around. They are even on our Board.
I probably won't go to Summit because I won't be able to implement all the cool new stuff I learn there.
WebFOCUS 8.2.03 - Production WebFOCUS 8.2.04 - Sand Box Windows 2012 R2 Server HTML, PDF, Excel In FOCUS since 1980
Posts: 115 | Location: Seattle, WA | Registered: April 07, 2015
I misspoke. Tableau merely gave us an enterprise license. Jeff Bezos gave us $5M. Oh and the CEO of Microsoft is on our Board. We are Seattle's favorite charity, but there are often strings attached.
WebFOCUS 8.2.03 - Production WebFOCUS 8.2.04 - Sand Box Windows 2012 R2 Server HTML, PDF, Excel In FOCUS since 1980
Posts: 115 | Location: Seattle, WA | Registered: April 07, 2015
So far, what we're doing is creating synonyms from the Tableau SQL. We're using their output, chart and reports as mock-ups to rebuild them in WebFOCUS. So far, so good. Which is to say that everything we've done is better (No surprise there, right?).
Posts: 3132 | Location: Tennessee, Nashville area | Registered: February 23, 2005
hmmm..why better? We are on the old lowly wf8001 hoping to upgrade BUT...we also have tableau and to be honest it kicks WH 8001 a$$ in so far a graphing. FYI we stage data for each. The power for us in WF is in the portal and custom reporting done using FML...ideally there is room for both tools....
My experience is that if there is room for both tools, there is room for other tools, and you will end up with a disparate collection of products that all partially cover part of any requirements, increasing costs in supporting and maintaining the infrastructure.
Ugh, similar stuff hasbeen happening here as of late. PowerBI Desktop got a foot in and now we are jumping through hoops to work around its rather limited connectivity options.
PowerBI claims to support all kinds of databases, but in reality only a few support "Direct Query" - in all other cases it downloads the entire dataset to your desktop. And yet they have the nerve to call it "PowerBI"...
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