In the humanitarian sector, business intelligence is about providing quality data to support the decision-making processes. Business intelligence is important in all phases of the HPC. The primary task of the IMO is to collect, organize and transform the data so that it can be easily read and analyzed by the operations management.
Typical data collected, analyzed and further utilized in the humanitarian business intelligence process include:
Number of people affected by a disaster
Needs of the affected population
Provision of aid versus the needs
Operation funding situation
Process
Power BI & Tableu: Quick comparison
Power BI
Tableau
Licensing
Available as part of the Office 365 package
Licensed full desktop version
Free Tableau Public version (less features & requires public sharing of the dashboards)
Performance
Performance tends to be slow, especially when connected to multiple large data sources.
Satisfactory performance even when connected to large-size data.
Visualization interface
All-in-one interface: the visuals are built directly on the report page
Separate interfaces for the individual visuals and the dashboard report. “Story” tool for multi-tab dashboards.
Built-in data manipulation
Power Query & DAX
Calculated Fields
Data interrelationship
Each dataset is separate by default. Possible to connect datasets with the “Edit Relationships” tool.
Each dataset must be connected (either directly or indirectly) with the “Relationships” tool before the data visualization process can begin.
Outputs/Resources
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