The Weekly Blog is curated content from the Evolytics staff, bringing you the most interesting news in data and analysis from around the web. The Evolytics staff has proven experience and expertise in analytics strategy, tagging implementation, data engineering, and data visualization.

MICROSOFT AND ADOBE LAUNCH JOINT CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE OFFERING

CIO Today | Article

Adobe and Microsoft recently announced a partnership with integrations for Adobe Experience Cloud, Microsoft Azure, dynamics 365 and Power BI. The companies state the collaboration will offer increased insights and more efficient web experience personalization. This is an advanced step for the technology industry, and Adobe and Microsoft will be working tirelessly to make the web experience even better. Previously, loading data into power bi from sql provided useful insights, which is thought can only be improved with the new partnership. Even employing people who have something like a Microsoft az-303 Certification on their record can help to make this personalization unlike any other, and one that brings success to customers and businesses alike.

“Adobe and Microsoft said they are also collaborating on a semantic data model for understanding and driving real-time customer engagement,” the article states. “This model will standardize how data is structured and expedite the process of gaining insights from massive amounts of data.”

Evolytics is excited about the low barrier to entry this provides clients who are working to increase speed to insight and automate reporting, so analysts can spend less time processing data and more time monetizing it. Our Reporting and Analysis team is ready to help your team get a jump start on this cutting edge integration.

TABLEAU’S NEW SUBSCRIPTION PRICING

TABLEAU | BLOG

Tableau recently announced a switch to a new pricing model with hopes it will lower the cost of entry. The company states, “Instead of paying the full cost of a perpetual license up-front, you only pay for your first year commitment.”

Previously, a Tableau Desktop Professional license was $2,000 upfront with $400 each additional year in maintenance cost. With the new pricing, Tableau Desktop Professional is now $70 a month, billed annually, which is $840 a year.

Tableau Online is now $42 per month per user, which is roughly equivalent to previous pricing. However, a Tableau server user is now $35 a month, or $420 a year and was previously was $1000 up front and $200 a year in maintenance.

Now that Tableau has lowered entry costs, the best place to reinvest data visualization budget is training to get team members up to speed on Tableau as quickly as possible. If you’re interested in getting more value from your Tableau investment, consider training with our award-winning Data Visualization experts.