Whitepapers

Tableau is the “Sweetheart” for third year

Two trends Gartner comments on in the report: the continued influence of business on IT decisions and their demand for easy to use, flexible products. Tableau’s products address these head-on. Tableau is easy to use and fast to deploy BI software that virtually anyone can use. (Gartner)

Business Intelligence

Why self-service? Because no one knows your data like you. (Tableau)

Business Intelligence

How organizations can make BI accessible to business users. (Aberdeen)

Visual Analysis

Discover breakthrough technology unifying data and visualization. (Tableau)

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Whitepaper 2012 Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI Platforms

Gartner’s Business Intelligence Magic Quadrant and two supporting reports underscore the desire for ease-of-use from business intelligence solutions. Tableau is positioned in the “Challenger” quadrant. (Gartner)

Whitepaper Top 10 Trends in Business Intelligence for 2012

What accelerates? What loses steam? Come check it out. (Tableau)

Whitepaper Agile BI: Complementing Traditional BI to Address the Shrinking Decision Window

Discover why adding agile BI provides a self-service solution that helps both business stakeholders and IT achieve their goals. (Aberdeen Group)

Whitepaper Self-Service Business Intelligence: Empowering Users to Generate Insights

Claudia Imhoff and Colin White discuss self-service business intelligence and how it can empower users to generate insights in this 2011 TDWI 38-page research report. (TDWI)

Whitepaper The BI Survey 10: The Customer Verdict

In a worldwide study, Tableau ranked #1 in customer loyalty, lowest TCO, and best agility across 25 BI vendors. (BARC)

Whitepaper BI Requirements for IT: What every IT Manager Should Know about Users’ Real Need for BI

Requirements to consider when evaluating agile business intelligence. (Tableau)

Whitepaper 5 Best Practices for Mobile Business Intelligence

Informed decisions anywhere with insights at your fingertips. (Tableau)

Whitepaper Big Data: Powering the Next Industrial Revolution

Abhishek Mehta discusses the power of using big data to solve problems once thought unsolvable. (Tresata)

Whitepaper Wisdom of the Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study™

Howard Dresner reviews some of the over-arching market trends as well as product rankings for Business Intelligence tools. (Dresner Advisory Services)

Whitepaper Best Practices for Deploying Collaborative BI

This paper will show you how to navigate around the usual hurdles and deliver collaborative BI that works. (Hired Brains)

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Whitepaper Visual Reporting and Analysis: Seeing Is Knowing

Wayne Eckerson examines advances in the visual display of data and how organizations are harnessing this technology to enhance reporting, analysis, and performance management. (TDWI)

Whitepaper Three Blind Men and an Elephant

Updated in January 2012, expert Stephen Few explains the power of interactive dashboards. (Stephen Few)

Whitepaper Tableau Visual Guidebook

Simple techniques for making every visualization useful and beautiful. (Tableau)

Whitepaper Which chart or graph is right for you?

This paper describes eleven chart types and helps you determine when to use each. It also includes dozens of tips on how to enhance visualizations to make your data pop.

Whitepaper Selecting a Visual Analytics Application

Visual analytics is becoming the fastest way for people to explore and understand data of any size.

Whitepaper Show Me: Automatic Presentation for Visual Analysis

Integrating user interface commands and defaults that incorporate automatic visual presentation of data. (Tableau)

Whitepaper 5 Best Practices for Telling Great Stories - And Why it Will Make You a Better Analyst

Build effective stories from the hidden insights locked in your data.

Whitepaper Designing Great Visualizations

Tracing the history of visual representation, from early cave drawings through the computer revolution.

Whitepaper Improve Your Vision and Expand Your Mind with Visual Analytics

Data visualization can help in finding what’s meaningful in your data and making sense of it.

Whitepaper Making Numbers Pop with Visual Analytics

Learn how a boutique finance and investment banking firm is using rapid business analytics

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Whitepaper Tableau Customers are Driving for Self-Service Business Intelligence

See how Tableau customers are implementing Agile BI. (Aberdeen Group)

Whitepaper Analytics At The Speed Of Thought

Robin Bloor discusses Tableau's in-memory software architecture; what it is and what it means for business intelligence. (Bloor Research)

Whitepaper Total Economic Impact of Tableau Software

Forrester documents Tableau’s 127% ROI based on the benefits and costs to customers. (Forrester Consulting)

Whitepaper In-Memory or Live Data: Which Is Better?

A look at some scenarios where in-memory or live reporting might be preferable in various database environments. (Tableau)

Whitepaper What's New in Tableau 7.0

This paper provides an overview of some of these key features in Tableau 7.0. (Tableau)

Whitepaper Tableau Server Security, Version 6.1

This whitepaper provides a detailed view into security features encompassed in Tableau Server. (Tableau)

Whitepaper Tableau Metadata Model

This paper provides an overview of how Tableau's metadata model is designed to address enterprise needs. (Tableau)

Whitepaper Data Blending: Dynamic Workload Driven Data Integration in Tableau

A look at Tableau’s data blending capabilities which bring together data sources for fast analysis. (U. of Washington)

Whitepaper Delivering Self-Service Business Intelligence

How business users can get the information they need to make better decisions through visual analytics. (Tableau)

Whitepaper Tableau details 2012 growth strategy, gets semantic for visual analytics

Analyst Krishna Roy offers insight into Tableau’s growth and how Tableau 7 addresses the enterprise’s requirements. (451 Research)