Tableau

With excellent cost of entry and the ability to completely host within the cloud, Tableau has become a powerhouse in the data discovery space.  In fact, Tableau emerged the clear winner in Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Programs” 2015.

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To paraphrase Tableau’s own words: Tableau helps empower people to liberate, see and understand their data.

All versions of Tableau (desktop, server and online) enable rapid deployment of solutions to expose the underlying value in an organisations data due in part to the native connectors to practically every data source you’d ever need included in the solution:

  • CSV
  • Google Analytics
  • Google BigQuery
  • Microsoft Access
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • MySQL
  • OData
  • Oracle
  • PostgreSQL
  • Salesforce.com
  • SAP
  • Teradata
  • and many more…

Tableau Online in particular offers excellent low cost of entry (with additional discounts for non-profit and education sectors) into enterprise analytics with no on-site hardware requirements to add a further burden to already overloaded IT departments.  Try it yourself with the 14 day free trial available here or alternatively get in touch and we can demo the full capabilities of the solution, advise on the right offering for your organisation and help you set up a BI centre of excellence to ensure you get full value from the solution.

Additionally, Tableau offers a completely free hosted solution for public datasets, Tableau’s Public, for which you can see some examples here.

*Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Programs” by Gartner, 2015. This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document. The Gartner document is available upon request from Tableau Software. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
**Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms” by Rita L. Sallam, Joao Tapadinhas, Josh Parenteau, Daniel Yuen and Bill Hostmann, 20 February 2015.