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Teknion Launches Comprehensive Client Solution Webinar Series

Fueled by our client's and community's request for more relevant and timely content, we are launching Teknion's Client Solution Webinar Series to represent the ever expanding diverse needs of our clients and the products, services and solutions Teknion offers to solve those unique data challenges.

Spatial Joins in Tableau with Excel, Text, Anything

Editor's Note:  This article was originally published in August 2019 by Josh Milligan, Principal Consultant @ Teknion Data Solutions on his blog Viz Painter.

Michael Tantrum Joins Teknion's Sales Leadership Team

Building Data Literate Teams with Tableau–Building the Dream Team-Part 2

Editor's Note:  This article was originally published in December 2019 by Bridget on Tableau Fit.

In Part 1 of this series "Building Data Literate Teams with Tableau – Busting the Buzzword" we learned that  "data literacy goes beyond the chart", what comes next? We need people for our team to take our organization to the next level. And with that…

Building Data Literate Teams with Tableau–Busting the Buzzword-Part 1

Editor's Note:  This article was originally published in December 2019 by Bridget on Tableau Fit.

I’ll let you in on a little secret. Data literacy goes far beyond chart-making. Don’t get me wrong, charts are swell. I love them in fact and make a whole living out of designing some awesome looking charts (okay, there’s a bit more to it than that, but #AskAnAnalyst and that’s the answer you get).

To Blend Or Not To Blend In Tableau

Objective: 

Learn why and how to avoid Data Blending in Tableau.

Interns Rule The Summer @ Teknion

What happens when you bring four (4) highly motivated data and analytic interns into your company for the summer?  Magic, pure magic.  Teknion has always been lucky with our internship program.  Every year we interview a large number of candidates for a few very coveted slots, always making for a difficult hiring decision.  This year was no different.  

Setting up Single Sign-On for Snowflake with SAML 2.0

In a recent POC, we were asked if single sign-on (SSO) could be achieved between Tableau and Snowflake using Auth0, a third-party identity provider (IDP).  Additionally, the client was looking for the ability to use secured views in Snowflake to limit the data that was being accessed by a Tableau Report.

Overcoming Concurrent Write Limits in Snowflake

Recently, an industry association came to us to help them build a portal for receiving member data and a data warehouse for sharing the insights gained from that data.  Snowflake was the obvious platform to support the data warehouse, but the client was also interested in using Snowflake to process and store files submitted by the member organizations.

How Tableau and Alteryx Helped Push One Candidate to a Mayoral Race Victory

Local political campaigns are revving up once again, and Tableau and Alteryx are on the forefront of electoral data. Community volunteer Coby Sparks, who you might remember

Teknion Achieves Alteryx Premier Partner Status

We’re honored and excited to be named an Alteryx Premier Partner, the highest achievement level possible for an Alteryx partner.  This award puts us in  a select class of companies world wide.

DataRobot Connector Tools For Alteryx