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Leading Industry Analyst Firm Ranks Tableau Software as World’s Fastest Growing Business Intelligence Vendor With 114% Growth Rate

Tableau Software Positioned as “Challenger” in Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence

SEATTLE (May 01, 2011) – Tableau Software, the global leader in rapid-fire business intelligence software, today announced it is the world’s fastest growing Business Intelligence, Performance, and Analytics Software vendor based on year over year revenue growth in 2010, according to new research from Gartner Dataquest (Market Share Analysis: Business Intelligence, Analytics and Performance Management, Worldwide, 2010). While the business intelligence market overall grew by 13.4%, Tableau posted growth of 113.5%. Far outpacing traditional business intelligence vendors, Tableau grew more than four times as fast as the average vendor.

These findings come on the heels of Gartner’s seminal 2011 Magic Quadrant report for Business Intelligence Platforms*, which positioned Tableau as a “challenger” based on survey feedback from Tableau customers. Gartner also released detailed customer survey findings about Tableau and 27 other BI vendors, which can be used for a deeper look into what has driven Tableau’s remarkable growth.  Tableau has made the full Magic Quadrant report and the supporting Gartner detailed reports available at no charge at http://www.tableausoftware.com/gartner. A video index of the report can be found at http://www.tableausoftware.com/gartner-video-guide.  Tableau will be exhibiting at the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit in Los Angeles this week.

“We believe being included in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant is testament to the value Tableau provides. Innovative, rapid-fire business intelligence software that’s easy for both IT and end-users helps organizations be smarter, more agile and efficient,” said Christian Chabot, Tableau’s CEO and co-founder. “Our latest product release supports easy analyses of massive data sets and is fully scalable to large enterprises. It’s no surprise we’re topping our competitors’ growth by such a wide margin.”

“The efficiency of my group has gone through the roof,” said Shawn Spott, vice president and manager for RBC Wealth Management, a Tableau customer. “Because Tableau provides us with the self-service model, we’re able to continue to keep projects moving through the pipeline. The maintenance footprint is so small, we just load and go. It’s been off-the-charts successful.”

Tableau has made its mark in the business intelligence space by providing powerful, easy to use visual analytics that is unmatched across the industry. Award-winning Tableau Desktop lets people create interactive dashboards and visualizations using an easy drag-and-drop interface. Tableau Server, also an award winner, provides a complete web-based business intelligence solution for browser-based analytics anyone can learn and use. The suite can be deployed in hours, not months like traditional platforms.

Tableau recently expanded its Seattle, WA presence with new, additional offices in Kirkland on the eastside of the city; an open house is scheduled for June 14. People can register to attend at http://www.tableausoftware.com/kirkland-open-house. The company plans on hiring 150 people this year, many of them software developers. In addition, Tableau recently opened operations in Europe.

Gartner’s market share analysis report is based on direct surveys of 48 vendors with revenues over $10 million. For the Magic Quadrant reports, Gartner surveys customers of 28 vendors with revenues over $15 million.  

* Magic Quadrant Disclaimer

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2011, by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Tableau Software

Tableau Software is the leading provider of visual analytics and rapid-fire business intelligence software. Ranked by Gartner in 2011 as the world’s fastest growing business intelligence company, Tableau makes its award-winning applications available for download at http://www.tableausoftware.com/trial. They enable anyone to easily create and share interactive data visualizations, dashboards and analytics from virtually any data, even massively big data, and can scale to organizations of any size or reach. For more information, please visit http://www.tableausoftware.com.

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Thu, 12 May 2011 04:21:00 -0700 Tableau Software Review | Business Intelligence Software Comparison http://mediascience.posterous.com/tableau-software-review-business-intelligence http://mediascience.posterous.com/tableau-software-review-business-intelligence

Tableau Software Review

Who they are

Tableau is a company with its roots in cutting-edge technology development. Stanford Professor Pat Hanrahan took on a DOD project designed to boost information analysis capabilities. Together with computer specialist Chris Stolte their research led to the development of VizQl, a technology that provides in-process data Visualization. After data analyst Christian Cabot joined the team, the three took their innovative technology and formed Tableau.

What Tableau does

Within a year of its launch date Tableau was named Product of the Year and its first customer, Tom Walker, became the company CFO. Tableau has 500,000 users in 90+ countries and is committed to technological innovation that helps people.

Satisfied Customers

Bank of America, Barclays Global, Citigroup, Clorox, Heineken, Procter & Gamble
Cornell University, DePaul University, CBS Sports, Disney Interactive Media Group,
ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil, Halliburton, Barnes & Noble, Safeway, Bayer CropScience,
Dow Chemical, Bear Stearns, Charles Schwab, Alaska Airlines, Toyota

Tableau Business Intelligence Product(s)

  • Tableau Desktop (for Anyone)
  • Tableau Server (for Organizations)
  • Tableau Digital (for Public Websites)
  • Tableau Public (for Bloggers)

Tableau Software Key Features

Access data from the rest of your systems quickly and easily
Compile information in easy to understand graphics instantly
Ask questions and get answers as you go
Share your graphics on the web easily

Tableau Software Technology

VizQL is a patented innovation which expresses the answers to your database questions in
easy to understand graphics. The technology creates immediate visual representations of your data in graphs, maps and interactive formats. This makes information retrieval, presentation and understanding work up to 100x faster than traditional data analysis methods. It is simple to use requiring no special training.

Bottom Line

Tableau software is fast, easy to use software that builds on a person’s ability to think visually. Columns of data which before had to be compiled, organized and displayed can be instantly accessed and presented in formats which make the information clear while deepening the understanding. Displays are responsive to the questions asked in real-time. Drag and click features mean that users need no special training. Data Engine technology means that companies with larger databases can perform similar functions with the same speed and ease on their PC.

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Thu, 12 May 2011 04:17:00 -0700 Customer Experience Matrix: Tableau Software Makes Good Visualization Easy http://mediascience.posterous.com/customer-experience-matrix-tableau-software-m http://mediascience.posterous.com/customer-experience-matrix-tableau-software-m

5 comments:

Laughing Boy

said...

I am a Tufte-devotee who has worked mostly in printed display media. I'm investigating how to present data via a web dashboard to execs monitoring production facilities. I want an app that will query the db and generate graphs to my specs and push them out to the users desktops.

As a rank novice to the web-distribution aspect, it seems Tableau would be great for an analyst to use, but not exactly what I need as a producer (not consumer) of visual information.

I'd appreciate any guidance you could provide and what solutions are the most cost-effective and flexible.

Thanks.

10:22 AM

David Raab

said...

Most if not all of today's business intelligence software can generate a Web dashboard. Their default designs will not be very Tufte-like, but you should be able to get them to do most of what you want unless you really want something specific like charts within a matrix ("small multiples").

Your post says you ant to "generate graphs to my specs and then push them out to the users desktops". That's a different function than a Web dashboard, which is something they would log into. The "publish and push" approach is probematic for a dashboard because you need to keep republishing the dashboard each time the data changes, and it's harder to do any kind of drill-down. If you have a real need to do it that way (e.g., many disconnected users), you'll have to look a bit harder. (For what it's worth, QlikTech does have a Publisher module to do that sort of thing.)

I don't think Tableau itself has a Web access feature, but could be wrong. If anybody from Tableau reads this, please clarify.

Hope this helps.

12:31 PM

Austin

said...

Tableau does have a new product, Tableau Server, that allows users to view graphs or dashboards via a web browser.

Austin Dahl
(Tableau Employee)

12:32 AM

Mark

said...

The only big thing missing in Tableau is the concept of hierarchies. It sees them from multi-dimensional sources like SQL Server analysis services, but Qliktech finds those relationships automatically.

Proclarity is great at using these hierarchies in its data decomposition tree.

If Tableau added automatic and user created hierarchies, data decomposition tree, and some light, but usable GIS features with basic included maps, I'd be in heaven.

2:47 PM

Austin

said...

One of those features, light GIS with built in maps, was added in the 4.0 release of Tableau.

Austin Dahl

9:48 AM

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