Why Tableau ServerA stunning alternative to BI
What Our
Customers SayHow data can bring you joy.
Why IT
Loves TableauWe have 7 good reasons.
Hear From the AnalystsThe 2013 Magic Quadrant.
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The future of business intelligence
Tableau Server is a business intelligence application that provides browser-based analytics anyone can use. It’s a rapid-fire alternative to the slow pace of traditional business intelligence software.
What makes Tableau different? It's designed for everyone. There's no scripting required, so anyone can become an analytics expert. You can grow your deployment as you need it. Train online for free. Find answers in minutes, not months.
Interactive dashboards in any browser
Combine all the data you need into a powerful dashboard. Publish it 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. You can give colleagues, customers and partners the tools they need to answer their own questions simply by logging into a secure website from any browser. When your business insight can move this fast, you're unstoppable.
Mobile business intelligence
Your business decisions aren't made in an analyst's cubicle. Your team makes these decisions in boardrooms, at client sites, and on the go. To get the most value from your business intelligence, the data needs to be in the same place as the decisions.
Tableau's unique approach to mobile BI emphasizes usability, so you can get the data you need when and where you need it. Filter, scroll, pinch, zoom--it all just works. Tableau's touch-optimized iPad and Android apps make it easy to find and use your dashboards, or simply connect to Tableau in your browser. Our author-once approach means that every dashboard you publish is automatically touch-enabled.
Download a free trial and take your dashboards with you wherever you go.
Blazing speed against massive data
Tableau will fundamentally change what you can achieve with data.
Bring your data into Tableau’s high-performance data engine and work with it at blazing speed. Do it all with just a click—there’s no programming required. Architecture-aware memory usage means more data on less hardware.
You can also connect Tableau directly to your fast database or cube and analyze live data, maximizing your previous technology investments. You can switch between connection types as needed, with just a click. You'll never have to worry about data silos or broken scripts again.
Blend disparate data with a click
You know as well as anyone that your data doesn't all live neatly in a single table of a single database. Real-world data is much more complex than that, but, with Tableau, blending these data sources is simple. You drag and drop 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 a drag and a 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.
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.
Get out of the queue
Self-service business intelligence is the most effective kind. Subject matter experts can create the reports they need to get answers themselves, today. They can change those reports as new priorities surface. Your business users can get back to business, and your IT team can get back to strategic thinking.
Why self-service? As hard as they work, an IT team can’t think of every report variation that business users might want. With Tableau, business users can respond to their own changing needs immediately, and your IT team suddenly has time free to realize their full strategic potential.
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Customers Say
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 is a leading nationwide provider of emergency roadside assistance and other travel related services.
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.
What Our Customers Have to Say
National Motor Club
We're 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
In 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.
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Loves Tableau
We have 7 good reasons.
Seven 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.
Seven 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 own 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.
Provides shared yet flexible metadata
Tableau’s Data Server allows you to centrally manage metadata, including data types, names and definitions. This means all users can be working with the same understanding of your data, and changes flow out to all users at once. So you can manage your metadata but stay nimble and flexible.
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.”
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Hear From the Analysts
The 2013 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 Council (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
2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant Report
Gartner’s highly regarded Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms report is based on detailed customer surveys, interviews, research and analysis. Tableau and other industry observers believe that many organizations will only consider software vendors that appear on the Magic Quadrant and are placed in the “leaders” quadrant. Access your complimentary copy of the Magic Quadrant report.
According to Gartner, “if there were a single market theme in 2012, it would be that data discovery became a mainstream architecture. This emphasis on data discovery from most of the leaders in the market – which are now promoting tools with business-user-friendly data integration, coupled with embedded storage and computing layers (typically in-memory/columnar) and unfettered drilling -accelerates the trend toward decentralization and user empowerment of BI and analytics, and greatly enables organizations’ ability to perform diagnostic analytics.”
Tableau has long held that by enabling an underserved class of data enthusiasts with access to flexible software anyone can use, companies will move people from report consumers to dynamic, interactive report creators. Tableau delivers fast, easy to use, powerful interactive software to broad numbers of business users who need the flexibility to discover patterns and trends in their data. IT and business users become partners in delivering data analysis using data sources of any size including newer technologies like Hadoop. Decision-making is faster and easier, leverages high volumes of data and achieves a higher return on investment.
Implementation Cost Trends
Gartner also studied implementation cost trends in its report Survey Analysis: Customers Rate Their BI Platform Implementation Costs. They note that “business intelligence platform usability (particularly for BI developers), the level of integration among platform components, the level of product quality and the complexity of migrations are all factors that affect implementation cost and effort as well as achievement of business benefits."
In particular, "ease of use (for both developers and business users) of a particular platform expands the complexity of analysis that users can perform on their own and the breadth of product features used, while lowering implementation costs."
We believe, in these regards, Tableau can be implemented for very low cost while delivering high business benefits.
Licensing Cost Trends
Gartner recently published a report called Survey Analysis: Customers Rate Their BI Platform License and Hardware Costs.
Gartner noted that “data discovery tools tend to support more sophisticated and complex types of analysis and have a higher proportion of more advanced users than traditional report-centric tools from the large independent vendors and mega vendors. And while data discovery tools are generally less expensive across vendor and user count scenarios, they tend to have a higher percentage of content author users and therefore less license cost per user economies of scale.”
As one of the leading data discovery vendors, we believe, in these regards, Tableau has some of the most favorable licensing options while delivering high business benefits.
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. Gartner’s reports help people gain a thorough understanding of the Business Intelligence market and the vendors serving the market.
2012 Gartner Magic Quadrant
Full reports from 2012 are below.
Gartner does not endorse any vendor product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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 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.
- 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.
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 Gartner's 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 purpose.
