Business Intelligence

Speed to value.

You have questions now. Get answers now, not in 6 months or whenever your change request is approved.

Self-service.

BI’s most critical task is to connect information to people. Tableau lets you drill down into data, highlight and filter across data sources, publish zoomable maps, and create interactive applications right in a web browser. If your BI can’t do that, you might as well not have BI.

Diverse data.

The reality of business today is that data lives in many places: databases, spreadsheets, cubes and text files. BI that doesn’t connect to disparate data isn’t solving real world problems. With Tableau you can not only connect to different data sources in the same workbook, you mash up your data to see, for example, production trends from your database along with product targets from Microsoft Excel. Immensely sophisticated but friendly and easy, data integration is just drag-and-drop.

Huge data.

It’s out there and your BI system should be able to handle it. With the Tableau Data Engine, you can work with huge data right on your PC with interactive response times. And unlike other in-memory solutions, all your data doesn't have to fit into your laptop's RAM. Why use a traditional transactional database for analytics? We’ve optimized everything from your PC's memory to the query itself to get you answers faster.

Or, connect live to a fast database, data warehouse or cube. Either way, just point and click.

Best practices in a box.

Business intelligence should help you create the right view and have built-in best practices to get you moving faster. Does it automatically geocode down to the zip code level? Does it suggest how you should look at your data? Does it include color schemes designed to help you explain your data? If you don’t have time to study the science of visualization, use Tableau. We’ve done it for you.

Social intelligence.

Build a dashboard on the fly and let your colleagues comment. Collaboration should be as easy as opening a link, writing a message, or saving a favorite.

Plug & play.

BI should play nice with the rest of your systems, working with your information architecture and abiding by your security protocols. Tableau works with databases, Tableau works with cubes, Tableau works with flat files. Tableau works with your fast data, and Tableau can speed up your slow data. Any which way you go, there’s no custom programming and the implementation is painless.

Better decisions.

Better and faster. That’s Rapid-Fire BI.