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A Winning 10 Days - Tableau Software Honored by Recent 2 Award Wins and 1 Nomination
Posted by Elissa Fink on May 22, 2008Gary Player, a great golfer of the 1960's and 70's, once said "The harder I work, the luckier I get". Tableau just had some good luck based on the hard work of our development team (who work hard to listen to customers). In the last 10 days, we were honored to win or be finalists for 3 different awards. In addition to winning the Network Products Guide Award for Product Innovation in Business Intelligence, we were selected as a finalist for the American Business Awards (the "Stevies"). And, just Tuesday we learned we won a CODiE award for Best Business Intelligence/Knowledge Management solution.
Visual Analysis of the Zeroth Kind: Geoffrey Taylor and The Bomb
Posted by Raif Majeed on May 16, 2008"What do you do?" It's a question you probably get all the time, like I do. Being a QA engineer at Tableau, my usual quick answer is that "I test data visualization software." Simple enough, right?
Well, I've found that different people hear different things out of a statement like that. For some, visualizing data is the last step -- a way of constructing charts of information for documentation or presentation. But for others, visualizing data is the first step -- a way to understand data before analyzing it in detail.
Reminder - Earlybird Registration Closes Today for the Tableau Customer Conference
Posted by Elissa Fink on May 16, 2008Just a quick reminder to Tableau Software customers. Today is the last day to earn the "early bird" discount for our first ever Customer Conference. It's just just 10 weeks away - July 20-22 here in Seattle at the Edgewater Hotel. Registrations so far have been very brisk so register today to guarantee your spot. You can get the early bird promotional code from your account manager or email us and we'll contact you.
We've added a slew of best practices and hands-on training sessions (check out our website for session descriptions). For example:
Learning by Example - Real Data Visualizations with Real Data Now Available
Posted by Elissa Fink on April 30, 2008
If you're like most people, one way you like to learn new stuff is by example. So recently several people at Tableau Software put together over 40 different examples of data visualizations based on many different types of data. Each is accompanied by a Tableau packaged workbook which contains additional visualizations and the data behind them. Everything is available as free downloads.
Inside Healthcare Computing Reports Major Hospital Saved $20 Million with Tableau Software
Posted by Elissa Fink on April 30, 2008We love it when we learn about customers not only creating insightful and beautiful visualizations but also (and more importantly) creating real value for their organizations. As a recent article in Inside Healthcare Computing reported, a major hospital in Ohio "avoids $20 Million in denials in one year using IT-recommended $1,800 software package". That $1,800 package was Tableau Desktop. How did they do it? Our client told it best. We've also got a case study.
Registration is Open for the Tableau Customer Conference
Posted by Elissa Fink on April 10, 2008We want you!
As mentioned, we're holding our first ever Tableau Customer Conference July 20-22, 2008 in Seattle, WA. And we just launched a website where we'll be keeping the latest news up-to-date. Head over to www.tableaucustomerconference.com and check out our agenda. It includes...
Analyzing Google AdWords Data - Getting Started
Posted by Wade Tibke on March 31, 2008
Simply put, Google is the juggernaut of the online marketing world. With a 25% market share of all online advertising and 75% of paid search revenues, they generate over $3 billion in revenue each quarter!
Yet, despite their ubiquity, often as a business's primary advertising vehicle, there is no great way to analyze the dollars being spent on Google advertising. With so many factors contributing to a campaign's success (external and advertiser controlled), it is often a crapshoot on how best to understand, improve, and communicate advertising results.
Tableau Server v1.6 Released - Offers Data Personalization and Easier, Secure Password Management
Posted by Elissa Fink on March 14, 2008
Good news for people who want to share analytics and collaborate with colleagues over the web. We've just released Tableau Server v1.6 which offers new capabilities regarding user-based filtering, and password and data source management. These enhancements make sharing and collaborating a little easier for everyone - whether you're publishing workbooks and views, consuming those on the web or administering the server itself.
Data Viz Wizards and Wannabes Warmly Welcomed to Tableau's 1st Ever Customer Conference
Posted by Elissa Fink on March 6, 2008
Save the date - it's Tableau Software's first ever Customer Conference from July 20 to July 22 in our hometown of Seattle, WA!
With a focus on our 10,000+ customers and how they can get more from Tableau, we're planning an event that will be much more than the usual corporate affair...
Eating Our Own Dog Food: Fast Analytics for SalesForce.com
Posted by Chris Stolte on February 20, 2008
This blog entry is the second in my series on how we are using Tableau to improve the way we run our business. This post will focus on one of our most successful “dogfood-ing” projects: Our use of Tableau with SalesForce.com data. The first half of this post focuses on what types of questions we have been able to ask of SalesForce data and how we’ve used Tableau as a key part of our sales and marketing workflow. The remainder of the post explains how we’ve connected Tableau to SalesForce.com.
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