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Tableau 2020.4 Simplifies Enterprise-Wide Data Preparation

Tableau Software, the main examination stage, today reported the overall accessibility of Tableau 2020.4, which simplifies undertaking wide information preparation and analysis by bringing the full set-up of Tableau Prep capacities to the browser on Tableau Server and Tableau Online. This new expansion brings down arrangement costs across the association, while rearranging the information prep measure by empowering experts to construct and alter their information streams without leaving their internet browser. Different capacities presented in Tableau 2020.4 incorporate the capacity to add limitless spatial layers to maps, a Resource Monitoring Tool (RMT) presently accessible on Linux, and extra local information connectors.

"Tableau Prep has taken the tedious task of data preparation and made it accessible to anyone by making it easy, visual, and direct," said Francois Ajenstat, chief product officer at Tableau. "Now anyone can access, build, and edit their data flows directly in the browser from anywhere, putting full data preparation capabilities in the hands of anyone in the organization. "

Data Preparation from Anywhere

Tableau Prep Builder is intended to assist clients with consolidating, shape, and clean their information preceding investigating it, utilizing a similar intuitive straightforwardness natural to all Tableau clients. New in 2020.4, this cycle should now be possible totally inside an internet browser, rearranging the experience for associations while permitting IT heads to midway oversee organization and adaptation control without physically refreshing individual machines. Presently, examiners can interface with an information source, clean and set up their information, assemble dashboards to dissect their information, and even offer it - with no work area required.

"Tableau Prep in the Browser is putting the data prep process in the hands of the people who know the data best, in any browser they can access," said Carl Allchin of The Information Lab. "This is really going to empower teams to prepare their own data whenever necessary, and unlock all the value that data has to offer."

Resource Monitoring on Linux

Tableau Server on Linux has been a significant answer for clients who send Linux in their IT surroundings and don't have any desire to keep a Windows occurrence to have their Tableau organization. With the option of the Resource Monitoring Tool on Linux in 2020.4, clients with the Server Management Add-on can proactively screen and investigate the soundness of their organizations, with profound perceivability into both equipment and programming execution. Beforehand just accessible on Windows-based organizations, the RMT on Linux can assist clients with distinguishing issues causing moderate burden times, separate disappointments, and other basic issues that can affect the experience for end clients.

Other features added in Tableau 2020.4 include:
  • Enhanced spatial capabilities. Customers analyzing geospatial data are now able to add unlimited marks layers from a single data source to their map visualizations, combining multiple spatial layers and context for a deeper understanding and analysis. In addition, Tableau can now connect directly to spatial data tables in Amazon Redshift, prepare spatial data in Tableau Prep, and create maps while offline with Tableau Server.
  • Predictive modeling improvements, including the addition of regularized linear regression and Gaussian process regression to the list of predictive models. Customers can easily change which model to use in the calculation field, and get immediate visual feedback on how that model impacts predictions.
  • New and improved connectors, including an update to the Salesforce Connector API that allows direct connections to the latest Salesforce objects, including Work.com. Other new connectors include Datorama and the brand new COVID-19 web data connector to make it easy to access the most up-to-date COVID testing data.

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Airbyte Racks Up Awards from InfoWorld, BigDATAwire, Built In; Builds Largest and Fastest-Growing User Community

Airbyte | January 30, 2024

Airbyte, creators of the leading open-source data movement infrastructure, today announced a series of accomplishments and awards reinforcing its standing as the largest and fastest-growing data movement community. With a focus on innovation, community engagement, and performance enhancement, Airbyte continues to revolutionize the way data is handled and processed across industries. “Airbyte proudly stands as the front-runner in the data movement landscape with the largest community of more than 5,000 daily users and over 125,000 deployments, with monthly data synchronizations of over 2 petabytes,” said Michel Tricot, co-founder and CEO, Airbyte. “This unparalleled growth is a testament to Airbyte's widespread adoption by users and the trust placed in its capabilities.” The Airbyte community has more than 800 code contributors and 12,000 stars on GitHub. Recently, the company held its second annual virtual conference called move(data), which attracted over 5,000 attendees. Airbyte was named an InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award finalist: Data Management – Integration (in October) for cutting-edge products that are changing how IT organizations work and how companies do business. And, at the start of this year, was named to the Built In 2024 Best Places To Work Award in San Francisco – Best Startups to Work For, recognizing the company's commitment to fostering a positive work environment, remote and flexible work opportunities, and programs for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Today, the company received the BigDATAwire Readers/Editors Choice Award – Big Data and AI Startup, which recognizes companies and products that have made a difference. Other key milestones in 2023 include the following. Availability of more than 350 data connectors, making Airbyte the platform with the most connectors in the industry. The company aims to increase that to 500 high-quality connectors supported by the end of this year. More than 2,000 custom connectors were created with the Airbyte No-Code Connector Builder, which enables data connectors to be made in minutes. Significant performance improvement with database replication speed increased by 10 times to support larger datasets. Added support for five vector databases, in addition to unstructured data sources, as the first company to build a bridge between data movement platforms and artificial intelligence (AI). Looking ahead, Airbyte will introduce data lakehouse destinations, as well as a new Publish feature to push data to API destinations. About Airbyte Airbyte is the open-source data movement infrastructure leader running in the safety of your cloud and syncing data from applications, APIs, and databases to data warehouses, lakes, and other destinations. Airbyte offers four products: Airbyte Open Source, Airbyte Self-Managed, Airbyte Cloud, and Powered by Airbyte. Airbyte was co-founded by Michel Tricot (former director of engineering and head of integrations at Liveramp and RideOS) and John Lafleur (serial entrepreneur of dev tools and B2B). The company is headquartered in San Francisco with a distributed team around the world. To learn more, visit airbyte.com.

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