Is Tableau The Next Google?

Roland Piquepaille writes "At least, the founders of Tableau Software, a small company established in 2003 and based in Seattle, come from Stanford University, where they worked down the hall with Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin back in 1997. In 'Tableau making name for itself,' the Seattle Post-Intelligencer writes that Tableau intends to make structured databases easy to use the way Google did with unstructured data. So the company is turning databases into easy-to-generate graphics. Tableau doesn't say who are its customers, but claims that it has more than 100 installations and that it's already profitable. This graphical data mining tool runs on desktops and costs $1,000 per user for a standard edition and $1,600 per user for a professional version. Will this company be successful and become another Google? Read more and decide after looking at an example of database drilling."

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Re:Incoherence

[falsifian]

Unstructured data? What are you talking about? Data is by definition structured!

01010010000110100100111010101010010110010101101010 1001001110100100001010101...

Where's the structure in that, huh? But drag it into *Tableau*, and I'll betcha it gives you a pretty picture!