Tableau Positioned as Challenger on Gartner 2010 Magic Quadrant Report for Business Intelligence Platforms

The Magic Quadrant is show above (the image was created by Gartner, not using Tableau's applications). We were struck by the interesting trends that Gartner observed and in particular one trend about the emergence of small innovative vendors.

Gartner wrote "In 2009, megavendors held almost two-thirds of business intelligence platform market share. But impatient business users increasingly turned to pure-play BI platforms, particularly those of small innovative vendors, to fill usability and time-to-value needs unmet by the larger vendors.”

Gartner's highly regarded Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence is based on Gartner’s detailed customer surveys, interviews and analysis. Many organizations will only consider software vendors that appear on the Magic Quadrant.

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