Why Tableau ServerA stunning alternative to B.I.
What Our
Customers SayHow data can bring you joy.
Why IT
Loves TableauWe have six good reasons.
Hear From the AnalystsThe 2011 Magic Quadrant.
Why Tableau ServerA stunning alternative to B.I.
Why Tableau Server
A stunning alternative to B.I.
A stunning alternative to traditional business intelligence.
Tableau Server is a business intelligence application that provides browser-based analytics anyone can learn and use. It’s a rapid-fire alternative to the slow pace and rigidity of traditional business intelligence software.
You have a job to do, but your current tools are cumbersome and slow. Tableau Server is a new kind of business intelligence, one that moves 100 times faster and is fun to use. Grow your deployment as you need it. Train online for free. Get results in weeks, not years.
A dashboard on Tableau Server in a web browser
Interactive dashboards on the web and in Sharepoint
Combine all the data you need into a powerful dashboard. Publish it on the web so you can filter, highlight and drill down right in a browser. Embed it in your team’s workspace or Sharepoint site, or send a link via email. Update it in real time. And do it in minutes or hours, not months.
With Tableau you can move from tables to interactive visualizations to dashboards in a few clicks. And you can give colleagues, customers and partners the tools they need to answer their own questions simply by logging into a secure website. When you can move this fast you feel like you can fly.
Point and click to create views and dashboards
Mobile business intelligence
You make decisions in meetings, at client sites, and on the go. To get value from your business intelligence, it should be there too.
Tableau's unique approach to mobile BI emphasizes usability so you can get the data you need when you need it. Touch-enabled filters pop with a finger tap. Scroll dynamically through lists or pinch & zoom in maps. Tableau's touch-optimized iPad app makes it easy to find and use your dashboards, or simply connect to Tableau in mobile Safari. And like everything Tableau does, it just works. Our author-once approach means that as soon as you publish a dashboard to Tableau Server, it's automatically touch-enabled for the iPad.
67 million rows of data and queries returned in seconds
Blazing speed against massive data
Tableau will fundamentally change what you can achieve with data.
We have turned your laptop into the equivalent of a multi-million dollar database. Bring your data into Tableau’s high performance data engine and work with it at blazing speed. And do it with a click—there’s no programming required. Tableau turns millions of rows of data into answers at the speed of thought. Architecture-aware memory usage means more data on less hardware.
Or don’t. You can also connect Tableau directly to your fast database or cube and analyze live data. It’s your choice. You can even switch between the two as needed. You never have to worry about data silos or broken scripts.
Blend data sources right in Tableau, no scripting needed
Blend disparate data with a click
Why should you need to draw lines and model data from different sources to look at relationships between it?
With Tableau you don’t. You simply begin dragging and dropping to add a new data source and analyze relationships across the data. Drag a spreadsheet of promotion dates onto your sales database to see how your offers influenced revenue. It’s not a six-month integration project, it’s drag and drop.
Invite the facts to your meetings
You and your colleagues are discussing new trends in your business. But your reports don’t answer your questions, and you leave your meeting with more questions than you went in with. So you go create more reports, then call another meeting. Which generates more questions and more reports.
Why not interact with data live during your meeting? With Tableau you can filter, sort, and discuss data on the fly. Ask and answer questions in the moment, face to face with your colleagues. That’s real collaboration.
Point and click to create views and dashboards
Get out of the queue
Self-service business intelligence is the most effective kind. Business users can create the reports they need to get answers themselves, today. They can change those reports as new priorities and considerations surface. Business users can get back to business and IT can get back to strategic IT.
Why user-driven? As hard as they try, the IT team can’t think of every report variation that business users might want. Business users change their minds, new needs come up, and information changes. When IT does develop a report and submits it to users, it is typical that the report goes through multiple revisions to get it “just right.” This is a cumbersome process fraught with delays. Tableau gets business users out of the IT queue and gets them answers.
What Our
Customers SayHow data can bring you joy.
What Our
Customers Say
Customers Say
How data can bring you joy.
Move faster. Smile more.
You notice something when you meet Tableau customers.
They're confident they can get answers from their data. They don't talk about big integration projects. They expect to see their dashboards in any browser. They talk about what they discovered, not where they are in the IT queue.
They're remarkably relaxed. And they don't say, "If we could just..." They can. They do.
National Motor Club
"Tableau has been a game changer"
National Motor Club is a leading nationwide provider of emergency roadside assistance and other travel related services. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, the company serves hundreds of thousands of members throughout the United States.
Today, the National Motor Club have around 10 desktop users, and a server implementation with about 50 licenses. They use Tableau to help position their products in the marketplace, reduce costs, look at expenses, look for trends and outliers. They use it to answering the simple questions to analyzing data sets with hundreds of thousands rows.
Watch the videoIn the past, a lot of our business intelligence systems were not used because they were at the officer level. But Tableau is definitely a tool that anyone who has a computer can figure out.
What Our Customers Have to Say
National Motor Club
Were able to get answers with information that we couldnt find before. It became the tool of choice anytime that we were doing any type of analysis.
- Matt Krzysiak, COO, National Motor Club
RBC Wealth Management
The efficiency of my group has gone through the roof.
- Shawn Spott, VP and Manager of Marketing Research, RBC Wealth Management
Aspire Public Schools
They got an email from a source that they trusted that had been giving them data, and attachments, and Excel files for years, with a link saying hey, here's your...data is on the web this time and we're also able to deliver it to you with 48 hour turnaround instead of two, three, four weeks.
- Lynzi Ziegenhagen, Aspire Public Schools
Why IT
Loves TableauWe have six good reasons.
Why IT
Loves Tableau
Loves Tableau
We have six good reasons.
Six Reasons Why IT Loves Tableau
Tableau is an IT dream: it gives you web-based dashboards that you can deploy across the company while working with your existing infrastructure. Stay in control while giving your users what they're crying for. Give them Tableau Server.
With Tableau Server, business users can get back to business and IT can get back to strategic IT.
Six reasons to love Tableau:
Solves business users’ needs
Want to be a hero to your business users? Take a look at Tableau. Business users can answer their own questions and build their own dashboards. They can share their insights using Tableau Server. As their needs change they can change their reports. Business users get self-service dashboards and reports, and you can get out of the report-writing business.
Fits your data architecture
- Got a slow database? Tableau can make your data blazing fast.
- Got a fast database? Tableau can leverage its speed.
- Got big data in files? That works too.
You can choose whether your users connect directly to databases or work with a local Data Engine, to take load off of critical systems. The Data Engine uses ad-hoc data modeling to adapt to your data architecture and lets you get answers fast – without creating data silos.
Respects your security protocols
Tableau Server enforces Active Directory user authentication and security. Tableau also supports the row-level security of databases. Or, if you don’t have any data security at all, Tableau gives you user- and workbook-level security so you can keep your private data private.
Simply by deploying Tableau you’re able to better manage data security. Users share ad-hoc reports securely via Tableau Server, so there's no more emailing spreadsheets with sensitive data. Your data stays where it belongs and stays secure.
Easy to install and maintain
Few IT resources are required to implement and support Tableau. Most customers don’t need regular IT support at all: Tableau Server installs via web and is operational in about 20 minutes. It integrates with Active Directory, so setup is simple and familiar. Tableau Desktop users can dig deep into their data then publish results to Tableau Server. Executives and others can interact via their web browser without any downloads or plug-ins.
Free online training and great end-user support
Tableau takes the load off IT by offering on-demand and live training for free. And with your annual maintenance, your users get excellent customer support. This means end users must turn to IT less often, which frees up your time-- and budget-- for other things.
A trusted partner
Thousands of companies use Tableau for business analytics. Tableau is a business partner with IBM, Oracle and Microsoft. Find out why Gartner said Tableau “gained overwhelmingly positive customer survey feedback across the board for functionality, product quality, support, customer relationship, success and view of the vendor's future.”
Hear From the AnalystsThe 2011 Magic Quadrant.
Hear From the Analysts
The 2011 Magic Quadrant.
What the analysts have to say
To get a well rounded view of how our products stack up, you can read what three of the most respected analyst and independent consulting companies, Gartner, Forrester and Germany's Business Analytics Research Councial (BARC) say about Tableau.
Gartner has the largest base of IT research analysts and consultants in the world. Gartner’s global research organization offers the combined brainpower of 1,200 research analysts and consultants. Forrester Consulting Provides independent and objective research-based consulting to help leaders in their organizations. BARC is Germany's most respected and highly regarded BI analyst firm.
Gartner
2010 Gartner Magic Quadrant Report and 2011 Customer Rating Reports available now!
Gartner's highly regarded Magic Quadrant* for Business Intelligence report and the related BI Platforms User Survey reports are based on Gartner’s detailed customer surveys, interviews and analysis. Tableau and other industry observers believe that many organizations will only consider software vendors that appear on the Magic Quadrant. Access your complimentary copy of all these reports:
BI Platforms User Survey, 2011: Customers Rate their BI Platform Functionality
BI Platforms User Survey, 2011: Customers Rate their BI Platform Vendors
Key findings from the Gartner Magic Quadrant report include:
- “The demand side of the BI platform market in 2010 was defined by an intensified struggle between business users' need for ease of use and flexibility on the one hand, and IT's need for standards and control on the other.”
- “With ‘ease of use’ now surpassing ‘functionality’ for the first time as the dominant BI platform buying criterion in research conducted for this report, vocal, demanding and influential business users are increasingly driving BI purchasing decisions, most often choosing easier to use data discovery tools over traditional BI platforms — with or without IT's consent.”
Two additional reports are important elements that give greater detail on every vendor in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant study. The BI Platforms User Survey, 2011: Customers Rate their BI Platform Functionality report details business intelligence (BI) professionals' perceptions of the relative strengths of their installed BI platform capabilities. It will help BI leaders identify a complete set of capabilities to meet current and future business needs.
The BI Platforms User Survey, 2011: Customers Rate their BI Platform Vendors report will provide insights for those selecting BI vendors and for customers wanting to benchmark suppliers.
As many software buyers know, the overall satisfaction with a software provider is based on many dimensions including product quality, response times, business relationship, support quality, website resources, and so on. And in making a purchase decision, software buyers also know they are not just buying software for today; it likely is software that will be used for years to come. So having satisfaction with the vendor’s product of today and confidence in that vendor’s future is important.
In the graph below, Gartner states, “the Overall BI Platform Success score on the horizontal axis represents composite (aggregate) ratings for product capabilities, support, sales experience, product quality and performance, with equal weightings for each — the higher the composite score, the more positive the overall experience with the vendor. The vertical axis records responses to our question about whether respondents were more concerned about the vendor in 2010, more positive, or unchanged in their view.”
Check out our more detailed analysis here: Overview of the Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports, 2010.
Forrester
Independent Study Documents 127% ROI
Forrester conducted in-depth interviews with three customers: a national financial-services firm, a major teaching hospital and an online media firm. Forrester documented an ROI of 127% and a 13-month payback period. Forrester attributes their findings primarily to a streamlined report publishing process, improved productivity of business intelligence analysts, and reduced report creation times. From their customer interviews Forrester also found, but did not quantify, significant labor productivity improvements, process improvements, and other benefits.
The complete Forrester study, titled The Total Economic Impact of Tableau Business Intelligence Solution (November, 2010) is available for download.
Forrester found the following benefits:
- Increased user adoption of business intelligence
- Increased standardized reports by 400%
- Reduced report creation times by 87.5%
- Reduced report distribution, storage and duplication costs and simplified publishing of reports
- Incurred no training costs to adopt Tableau
- Freed up BI analysts to perform higher-value tasks
- Realized process improvements from use of visualization in root-cause analysis
BARC BI Survey 10
BI Survey 10 Ranks Tableau #1 in Customer Loyalty, Ease of Implementation and Lowest Total Cost of Ownership Across All Vendors
The BI Survey 10, the world's largest survey of business intelligence users, ranked Tableau number one in customer loyalty, lowest total cost of ownership (TCO), and agility (or ease of implementation) over all 25 vendors covered. Tableau beat out providers including QlikTech, MicroStrategy, Oracle, SAP/Business Objects, and IBM/Cognos.
Now in its tenth year, the survey was produced by the Business Analytics Research Council (BARC), a highly regarded IT analyst firm based in Germany covering the analytics and business intelligence industry.
The interactive visualization below summarizes key performance indicators from the survey from a subset of important vendors:
- Tableau ranked number one in customer loyalty across all vendors
- Tableau ranked number one in speed of implementation. 49% of Tableau customers implemented in 1 month or less; only 27% of QlikTech customers did.
- Tableau ranked number one in lowest total cost of ownership.
- Tableau ranked number one in lowest implementation cost. 81% of Tableau customers did their implementation in-house (and spent $0 on implementation); only 24% of QlikTech customers claimed that.
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The BARC analysts noted, "Tableau had the highest score in the area of in-house implementation by a very wide margin, skewing the entire chart. No other product came close." Not only did Tableau record the highest score in in-house implementation, Tableau also recorded the lowest overall total cost of ownership (TCO) in the entire sample.
Get BARC's report on Tableau.
Read more analysis on Tableau in the BI Survey.
* Magic Quadrant Disclaimer
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted January 27, 2011 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartners analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the Leaders quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular