write-back and dashboard collaboration for manufacturing analytics

At the core of every data-driven organization is the ability to make data easy to access, share, discuss and act on. This data democratization and actionability improves the decision-making ability across every function of the organization — and empowers manufacturers to optimize operations with minimized response times and collaborative insight discovery. Elements for Tableau enables Tableau users to comment on and enrich the data directly from the dashboards with flexible feature set built to meet the highly specific needs of the manufacturing industry. This further accelerates communication around the data and leads to faster and more informed decisions.

Whether it’s mission control overview, predictive maintenance, supply chain KPI tracking or overall equipment effectiveness analysis, Elements for Tableau helps recognize incidents, outliers and other data points of note in time and act on the without delay to maximize uptime, drive innovation and streamline processes to optimize costs while ensuring quality.

Benefits

Improve Insight Discovery

By enabling team collaboration to take place in Tableau directly where the data is being viewed – your dashboards and reports – Elements promotes team engagement with data and results in more frequent discovery of deeper insights.

Better Decisions, Faster

Enterprise-grade write-back and annotation features enable collaborative Tableau-based workflows that better serve the unique needs of users and management. This improves time to decision and organizational effectiveness.

Secure and Compliant

Elements stores annotations in a separate, auditable database and provides compliance-ready features — including customizable approval processes and permission controls — for any demand within the manufacturing industry.

Transform Dashboards

Annotate Data

Comment Anywhere

Tag and Notify Users

Manage Access

Customize It

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Features

User Experience

Annotate complex aggregated and raw data along with its dimensions.
Managed data source option available for easy deployment and maintenance.
Easy-to-use form builder with multiple input field types: text box (including rich text), radio button, checkbox, drop-down list, number field, sliders, autocomplete field, etc.
Commenting via modal windows for efficient user experience.
Excel integration enables exporting and importing formatted tables for bulk editing and more.
Dashboard attachments introduce file manager functionality to Tableau.

Security and Compliance

Best-in-class features promote compliance with enterprise data security regulations and protocols.
A single external database records comments and annotations — your data never leaves your premises.
Secure approval workflow supporting multiple approvers is integrated into the commenting process.
Enterprise-grade access management with full control over user and group permissions.
Authenticate users through preferred methods including AD, SAML, OAuth and Okta.
Multitenant architecture provides isolated workspaces for departments, divisions or teams.
Fully audit-compliant with a complete history of comments and user activity.

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On-Demand Webinar

Enterprise-class Write-back and Dashboard Collaboration for Tableau

At the core of every data-driven organization is the ability to make data easy to access, share, discuss and act on. Elements for Tableau enables dashboard users to modify the data and collaborate directly from the dashboard. Watch this on-demand webinar to find out what Elements can do for you and your team.

Case Study

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