Tableau Software

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Tableau Software is a provider of data visualization software.

History

Tableau Software began as an R&D project inside Stanford University’s prestigious Department of Computer Science. Together with Professor Pat Hanrahan, Chris Stolte, a young Ph.D. student, combined a structured query language for databases with the communication power of graphics, inventing a new database visualization language called VizQL™ (Visual Query Language). Tableau, under the technical leadership of Hanrahan and Stolte, used the VizQL foundation to produce a new way of interacting with the same relational databases that are the backbone of the global database and business intelligence market.

Products

Tableau Software offers two main products: Tableau Desktop™ and Tableau Server™. Tableau Desktop is a software application that enables people to connect to a data source and immediately start creating analyses and summaries of large amounts of data through a drag-and-drop interface. Tableau Server™ is a Web-based solution for sharing analytic visualizations across workgroups and organizations.

Awards

Tableau Software has won many awards including "Best Overall in Data Visualization" by DM Review, "Best of 2005 for Data Analysis" by PC Magazine[1], and "Best Business Intelligence Solution" by the Software & Information Industry Association[2].

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.tableausoftware.com/docs/ts_aw_pcmag05.pdf
  2. ^ 2008 Codie Award Winners, http://www.siia.net/codies/2008/winners.asp#Software
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