behind the aisle: tips on empowering global users with
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Behind the aisle: Tips on Empowering Global Users with Self-Service Analytics at Walmart Scale
Heidi Daniels
Director of Engineering
Walmart Labs / Data & Analytics Technologies
Jesse McElmury
Principal Consultant
Teradata / BI & Cognitive Design
Meet the Presenters
Heidi Daniels
Director
Analytics & Visualization
Walmart Labs
Jesse McElmury
Principal Consultant
Business Intelligence & Cognitive Design
Teradata
Agenda
• Introductions
• Walmart Overview
• Walmart Scale
• Building a Platform For Enabling & Empowering Users
• Q&A
Tableau Objectives
• Flexible Access – Mobile, Web, etc.
• Death to Printing
• Leverage All Data Sources
Walmart Scale
• Hundreds of Server Cores
• 450k+ Registered Tableau Users
• 2+ Million Sessions Per Month
• 4500 Published Data Sources
• 1500 Hyper Published Data Sources
• 500,000 Extracts Per Month
Develop
• Sizing / Capacity
• Configuration
Server Architecture
• Content Management
• How to Get HelpSupport
• Tableau (duh!)
• Data Prep Tool
Full Stack Suite
• Create Published Data Sources
• Build Semantic LayerData
Governance
• Usage Guidelines
• Run time limits
• SecurityProcess
• Dashboard Development
• Tuning & Optimization
• External Usage / Embedded Analytics
Best Practices
• Content Management
• How to Get HelpMonitoring
Monitoring
• Is my platform stable?
• Is my platform performant?
•Do I have adequate capacity?
•Who? What? When?
Community
• Engage business users
• Tips & Tricks
• Best practices discussions & documentation
Tableau Lunch & Learn
• Internal Support Team
• Supporting user issues and requests for assistance
Technical Support
•Champion Tableau
•Interact with business & IT
•Customize sessions
•Doctor Sessions
Tableau Days
• Monthly Communications or Newsletters
• Tableau User Groups
• Tableau SLACK channel
• Features Sessions
Other
• Enable & Empower Your Users•Define Needs & Build a Platform
Supporting Them•Don’t Sacrifice Security &
Stability•Develop training & mentoring
programs across the organization
Bringing It All Together