Tableau Still Helps People See and Understand Data, but Which People?

Ted Cuzzillo,
Principal Analyst – Data Analytics

Summary Bullets:

• Salesforce’s acquisition of Tableau was a milestone for the inception of a new, post-Tableau era of innovation.
• Tableau’s absorption within Salesforce will leave competitive space for new products.

Back at Tableau’s first release in 2004, many data analysts felt their hearts stir. Some had already dreamed of data analysis that went as deep and as fast as the mind could go, but now Tableau made it possible. All they needed then was access to the data inside IT’s vaults. But that access to data was a problem for many IT departments, and there began a long insurgency.