You are invited to our next Live Webinar
27 August 2026 | 12 - 1pm SAST
This webinar is relevant to anyone currently operating on dbt or Tableau or evaluating either tool as part of their analytics capability modernisation programme. If you have any of these challenges, this event is for you:
experiencing trust in data and team capacity rather than tooling problems
your data teams are too small
your metrics don't match across departments
rising governance framework and compliance pressures
Why attend
You will be part of a practical demonstration of how pairing of dbt and Tableau addresses the most common issues experienced by many South African businesses:
Pain point | What it looks like in practice | How dbt + Tableau solves it |
Skills shortage | Data teams can't hire or retain engineers; backlogs grow | Governed, SQL-based transformation in dbt that a smaller team can maintain; reusable models instead of one-off ETL scripts |
Dashboard sprawl & inconsistent metrics | Different teams calculate the same KPI differently; numbers don't reconcile across workbooks | A single governed metric layer (dbt Semantic Layer) that every Tableau dashboard pulls from, so the definition only exists once |
Governance & POPIA pressure | Unclear data ownership, no audit trail on how a number was calculated, ethical/compliance risk | Git-based version control, pull requests, and change history in dbt; automatic lineage from model to dashboard in Tableau |
Cost & connectivity constraints outside metros | Cloud spend pressure, rand volatility, inconsistent infrastructure outside major hubs | Centralising logic in the warehouse reduces duplicate extracts and wasted compute; lighter, more efficient Tableau deployments |
Presenters
Craig Andrew, Head of Business Development at Keyrus and a certified Tableau practitioner
Dandre Diedericks, Senior Data Engineer at Keyrus