TABLEAU READER 9.1 PRO

Tableau 1.0 was available in three editions. I am not sure why even in 2015 the Tableau insists on its own self-assessment that it works as fast as you can think – that is offensive to thinkers. Data from multiple tables have to be denormalized (this proved overtime to be the weakest part of the tool) into one table before importing into Tableau. Tableau 1.0 can access to Access, Excel, Microsoft Analysis Services Cubes!), MySQL, SQL Server 2000. Introduction of VizQL allowed less coding (but required a lot of drag-drops, clicks, resizing and other gymnastics with mouse, which seems more acceptable to wider population – Tableau insists on “anyone, anywhere”).

Part 1 “Intro” covers 2004-7 from version 1 to 3, Part 2 “Catching-up” covers 2008-10 from versions 4 to 6, Part 3 “Competition” covers 2011-13 from version 6 to 8 and Part 4 “Leading the field” covers 2013-15 from version 8.1 to 9.1, including Tableau Online. What is below is said by Tableau version by version, but interpreted by me (my blog, my opinions, my interpretation). Noted by me before: No MDI, no re-sharing of workbook infrastructure with other workbooks, no internal DB (ugly data blending instead), no in-memory columnstore, wrong approach to partners etc. I will start with something which is still is not here yet at the end of 2015. I will follow this pattern with one exception (and I promise to avoid the marketing BS like “revolutionary innovation”). Also I reused some posts from this blog – I already covered in my blog versions 6.0 (in 2010) and then 6.1, 7.0, 8.0, 8.0 Desktop, 8.0 server, 8.1, 8.2, Tableau Online, Tableau Reader, Tableau Public. The text below is based on recent Tableau’s attempt to re-write own history, version by version. Overall for last 5 years Tableau had explosive (and unsustainable by industry standards) 75% or above growth that YoY revenue growth (and Tableau expects $650M for entire 2015) presented in bar chart below: Even in Q3 of 2015 Tableau’s revenue was $171M, 64% up from Q3 of 2014 and it was twice more than entire Tableau’s revenue over period of 2003-10. In 2010 Tableau had about $34M revenue and was one of the fastest growing software companies in the world (123% YoY).

TABLEAU READER 9.1 PRO

In 2004 Tableau got $5M from VCs. In 2005, Hyperion (now Oracle owns Hyperion) began to offer a Tableau under the name “ Hyperion Visual Explorer“.īy end of 2010 Tableau had 4 products: Tableau Desktop ($1999 for Pro edition), Tableau Server ($10000 for 10 users), Tableau ( free) Reader and Tableau (free web service) Public. Tableau was spun out of Stanford in 2003, from project Polaris, led by professor Pat Hanrahan and Chris Stolte. It was originated at Stanford as a government-sponsored (DoD) research project to investigate new ways for users to interact (including VizQL) with relational and OLAP databases. Tremendous success of TC15 (with 10000+ attendees, unmatched by any competitor 1st conference in 2008 attracted only 187 people) convinced me to return to my blog to write about Tableau’s history – it is interesting how it came to be. That is wrong: in fact I love Tableau but I will try to show below that love can be “objective”. I was accused by many that I like Tableau too much.

Tableau reader 9.1