Interactive data visualization products focused on business intelligence. Data Visualization and Communication. Tableau is considered a leader in the field of data discovery.
Tableau products are designed and built to meet the critical needs of the digital forensic community world-wide.
2. Introduction
Tableau enables users to quickly see and understand their data
by automatically turning data into pictures
Tableau connects easily to nearly any data source, be it
Corporate Data Warehouse, web-based data or any file like SQL
Server, ORACLE, SAP HANA, Salesforce, Teradata, Hadoop,
Google Analytics, MS Excel, MS Access etc.
In 2020 the world will generate 50 times the amount of data as in
2011 and 75 times the number of information sources (IDC,
2011). To manipulate these huge data people need the power of
data at their fingertips. Tableau is the software to deliver exactly
that.
6. Company Background
Tableau Software - American software company headquartered
in Seattle, WA, USA
Founded at Stanford University’s Department of Computer
Science between 1997 and 2002. Professor Pat Hanrahan and
Ph.D. student Chris Stolte
Combined Structured Query Language (SQL) for databases with
a descriptive language for rendering graphics and invented a
database visualization language called VizQL (Visual Query
Language).
7. Company Background
VizQL formed the core of the Polaris system, an interface for
exploring large multi-dimensional databases – foundation for
Tableau
Net Profit in Last 5 Years
14. Competitors
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft BI Tools (SSIS,SSRS,SSAS)
Google Charts
Spotfire
Qlik Sense
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
GoodData
iDashboards
Salesforce Analytics Cloud (Wave)