Introduction

Data Exploration is designed to connect your own local Tableau Desktop (Professional Edition) installation with MindSphere.

Features of Data Exploration

  • Creation of customized visualizations to analyze the data collected in MindSphere

  • Root cause analysis for problems such as “Why did I not reach my production targets last month?”

  • Data driven business case modelling – Identify new opportunities for additional business through the visualization of collected data

Use of Data Exploration and Visual Explorer

Within MindSphere, there are two independant Tableau based offerings for data visualization; Data Exploration and Visual Explorer:

Data Exploration

Data Exploration is designed to connect Tableau Desktop with MindSphere.

The offering from the MindSphere store includes:

  • User interface to connect Tableau Desktop with MindSphere

  • Data transfer from MindSphere to Tableau Desktop

Visual Explorer

Visual Explorer is designed to create Dashboards for internal use or distribution to customers.

The offering from the MindSphere store includes:

  • Visual Explorer

  • Visual Explorer Connector (synchronize data between MindSphere and Visual Explorer)

There are two different packages for different license types:

  • Creator – create new Dashboards

  • Viewer – use Dashboards as an App

For more information on how to use Visual Explorer, see Visual Explorer Getting Started.