Tableau Is The Windows 95 Of Analytics
November 21, 2013
Directions Magazine notes that “Tableau Continues Its Visual Analytics Revolution” by using location analytics to improve business processes. How is Tableau making this possible? The company’s visual analytics software is the main key to advancing how users access and understand information.
“Tableau represents a new class of business intelligence (BI) software that is designed for business analytics allowing users to visualize and interact on data in new ways and does not mandate that relationships in the data be predefined. This business analytics focus is critical as it is the top ranked technology innovation in business today as identified by 39 percent of organizations as found in our research.”
Tableau wants data usage and understanding to be seamless without having to configure it to preset niches. The problem is that Tableau’s software is a dream for data scientists, but there is still a barrier for average user interaction. Tableau is making analytics software the equivalent of Microsoft Office, however. Business analysts are noting that Tableau’s software is a business intelligence solution that curb’s IT’s involvement by keeping it down to a minimum as well as demonstrating the quick value of data.
Tableau is making data software for the average user akin to what Microsoft did with Windows 95. What the company is doing needs to be monitored, not because it is alarming, but because it is going to be big.
Whitney Grace, November 21, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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Is this supposed to be a compliment?
Today with Analytics we need to scale as well and I just don’t see Tableau fitting in the Enterprise space of Analytics with organizations such as Spotfire, QlikTech and IBM.
I just don’t understand the article considering Tableau isn’t a dream for the average user but helps data scientists??? Isn’t the idea of Analytics to help eliminate the static views we get and allow the average user to navigate intelligently (not just a data scientist or analyst).
Tableau seems to be the same traditional approach other large vendors take with relational databases……My money is on Spotfire or QlikTech to blaze the trail for the future once the dust settles.