Is Tableau Dead?

Re:Is Tableau Dead? by prepend on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @10:10AM (#39525002)

My biggest complaint with powerbi is that there’s no versioning and collaboration across multiple authors is really hard. I can’t put it in git other than a binary blob and so that means for anything serious I have to just hope nobody goes in and breaks stuff.

At least tableau project files are just xml so you can stick it in git and have ugly merge requests. And rollback to versions if necessary.

The fact that Microsoft doesn’t even see this is a problem is infuriating and makes it hard for any serious data work where you need reproducibility and auditability.

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Re:Is Tableau Dead? by Anon_Admirer on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @07:31PM (#39532303)

Have a look into Power BI developer mode which works with GIT:

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/deep-dive-into-powe...

They recently released an update in preview that has a more human readable format:

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/tmdl-in-power-bi-de...

For comparing semantic models there is ALM Toolkit: http://alm-toolkit.com/

You can also edit BI Models with Tabular Editor which can save objects to storage:

https://tabulareditor.com/downloads

And phi-tools for DevOps: https://pbi.tools/ I’d wait in pbi-tools to start working with Power Bi Developer Mode / Power BI Project files

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