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Tableau Makes Business Intelligence Faster and Mobile

Jul 31, 2011 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, eCommerce, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Tableau 6.1 adds optimized mobile support for iPads, faster data performance, new maps, and French and German versions

SEATTLE (July 31, 2011) – Tableau Software, the global leader in rapid-fire business intelligence (BI) software, today announced the general availability of Tableau 6.1. The new version delivers automatic touch and gesture optimized support for the Apple iPad, whether views are accessed via Tableau’s new iPad App or via Mobile Safari. In addition, Tableau enhanced its in-memory analytics engine with increased query and loading performance. People can also rapidly update existing extracts in Tableau’s data engine. Other improvements include localization and new maps.

“myPad or yours?” – create once and instantly get Tableau on the go

All Tableau views, from both Tableau Server and Tableau Public, are now optimized for touch and gesture experiences when accessed on the iPad. Creating interactive dashboards and reports is still fast, fun, and easy; now those same results are immediately available on the iPad. There is no need for up-front design changes or maintaining multiple versions of workbooks to serve multiple platforms. When a view is accessed from the iPad, Tableau automatically detects and optimizes the user experience. Controls such as filters, parameters, sliders, scrolling, and zoom & pan respond based on touch. The new iPad app, available in the Apple App Store at http://itunes.com/apps/tableaumobile, makes browsing content, accessing favorite reports, and collaborating and commenting quick and easy. An online video showing the new capabilities can be seen here http://www.tableausoftware.com/data-to-ipad-in-2-minutes.

“The ability of Tableau’s mobile BI solution to answer questions wherever they strike is incredibly empowering,” said John Abdo, who is responsible for all web analytics for Cafe Press, one of the world’s leading websites empowering people and organizations to create, buy and sell customized merchandise online. Abdo has been an active participant in the Tableau 6.1 beta. “It’s the same thing Tableau did when they gave non-technical users access to a treasure trove of data.”

According to recent research from Gartner “Forecast Alert: IT Spending, Worldwide, 1Q11 Update,” more widespread adoption of tablets among enterprises will help drive IT spending growth this year. The analysts predict that worldwide media tablet spending is projected to reach $29.4 billion in 2011, up from $9.6 billion in 2010. Global spending on media tablets is forecast to increase at an annual average rate of 52 per cent through 2015.

“BI output has been available on mobile devices for many years, but has had limited success due to the display form factor, computing and memory limitations of handheld devices and the cost of Internet bandwidth. However, the current generation of touch-driven tablets and smartphones is set to make BI content usable and compelling by offering a rich, location-aware and intuitive experience. BI content plus ubiquitous smart mobile devices should equal broader adoption,” commented James Richardson, Research Director at Gartner in his research note, “Findings From EMEA Business Intelligence Summit: Mobile BI Needs Metrics.”

An even faster in-memory data engine

The Tableau data engine, Tableau’s next generation in-memory analytics solution, has been enhanced. Not only does it load and query faster and support bigger data, but people can now incrementally update Tableau extracts quickly with one click or via an automated scheduler. Creating Tableau Extracts is significantly faster with v6.1. For example, loading 6.4 million rows from a file now takes less than 25% of the time it used to.

The data engine lets people speed up the performance of massive corporate databases or integrate large files on the fly. For example, daily visitors to an ecommerce site can result in millions of new records in website log files. With Tableau, those companies can keep their data sets current as they rapidly create and share powerful analytical views and reports.

“The need for speed drives today’s workforce. People have to be able to get interactive access to their dashboards and reports anywhere anytime, even if it’s in a conference room down the hall from their offices. Tableau 6.1 is filled with innovations that help people take charge of massive data and use it regardless of where they are,” said Dan Jewett, Tableau Software’s vice president, product management.  

6.1 new features

As well as mobile support and the enhanced data engine, the release of Tableau 6.1 adds a host of other new functionality including French and German versions, more mapping options, and new features to create brilliant visualizations and dashboards. Detailed information is available at http://www.tableausoftware.com/new-features/6.1.

  • Localization and Maps – French and German versions of Tableau Desktop, and enhanced geocoding mean that asking “where?” yields richer answers
  • Fresh, fast data – Faster extract creation, incremental updates, data appends, extract history, database impersonation and Teradata improvements make it easier to be up-to-the-minute and secure with all your data
  • More tools for authors – more legend options, links on dashboard images and the ability to view data anywhere allow for more control

“The launch of French and German versions highlights the start of our localization drive, translating not just the software text, but a range of other map and locale data as well,” Jewett continued. “Combined with several other innovative new features, this release showcases the vision we have for the Tableau suite worldwide.”

Prior to launch Tableau 6.1 was demoed at Tableau Software’s First Annual European Customer Conference and tested by a group of over 1,000 customers in beta access program.

About Tableau Software

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

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Tableau Opens Data Analysis Contest; Winner to Earn $5K in Prizes and Will Be Announced on Stage at The Economist’s Ideas Economy Conference

May 19, 2011 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Competition offers people opportunity to showcase their skills in creating interactive graphs about business, finance or real estate; winner receives free trip to Las Vegas and will be featured at Economist event June 8

SEATTLE (May 19, 2011) – Today marks the opening of a new data analysis competition using Tableau Public, a free tool for creating and publishing interactive graphs on the web. The competition encourages people to create interactive data visualizations about business, finance or real estate trends and publish them in their blogs or websites. $5,000 in prizes will be awarded to the winner, along with the chance to win more. Tableau Software, the global leader in rapid-fire business intelligence, is sponsoring the contest along with support from The Economist and its Ideas Economy conference “Making Sense of the Deluge”, an event devoted to the new world of data. To enter, people should go to http://www.tableausoftware.com/biz-viz-contest.

“Telling interactive stories with data is easier and faster with Tableau,” said Christian Chabot, CEO Tableau Software. “People can rapidly build data rich interactive applications for their websites, blogs and portals without programming or special skills. By presenting this contest with The Economist, we’re giving experienced analysts and novices alike an opportunity to use Tableau to demonstrate their skills at bringing data to life.”

Current alternatives for data story-telling are inadequate. Often, data is pasted into tables, posted as files that are difficult to use or shown in static charts. Or, specially skilled programmers spend weeks building single-purpose widgets. Tableau is helping to solve this. With its interactive visualizations and dashboards, Tableau Public helps people build interactive data applications that are useful, beautiful and shareable on the web. No special plug-ins are required, all that’s needed to see and use the data is a web browser.

Contest Details

The contest is open to U.S. residents who have downloaded Tableau Public. Entrants compete by creating an interactive visualization using any business, finance or real estate data, and then submitting an application to enter the contest. The contest closes June 3rd. The winner will be announced on stage at The Economist’s Ideas Economy Conference June 8 in Santa Clara, CA.

In addition, the winner will receive a copy of Tableau Desktop, expanded Tableau Public account limits, and a conference registration to the 2011 Tableau Customer Conference in Las Vegas, with travel and hotel expenses covered for two people. The winner will also win the chance to compete with the winners of two other visualization contests at the conference in a final “Iron Viz” championship, whose winner will take away $2,000 and a new iPad2.

For further information on the competition please go to http://www.tableausoftware.com/biz-viz-contest. To get Twitter updates on the contest, follow @tableau.

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

May 01, 2011 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

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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