The world was about to discover Tableau, but first came the Tableau conference crammed into a hotel on the Seattle waterfront. The story was clear: we tried out our data on this new tool and by the end of the afternoon we had to show the boss what we found. A CEO I hear from has for years embedded Tableau in his BI platform. Tableau is the best choice by far, he says. Lately, though, a new tool has caught the BI market’s fancy: Power BI, from Microsoft. It’s already a strong contender against Tableau, he says. One more thing: for individuals with a gigabyte […] Fourteen thousand people looked on earlier this month as Tableau’s new CEO, Adam Selipsky plodded onto the stage. The stage was 10 times wider than at the first conference, an audience 70 times bigger — and a CEO not even a quarter as fiery as the first one. But he seems to be a good […] No matter what BI product Suzanne Hoffman mentions during needs-assessment meetings with business users at SMBs, she says, the question is the same nine times out of ten: “How’s it compare with Tableau?” “No one ever asks how it compares with Power BI,” says Hoffman, an industry consultant with vast experience. She does mention Power […] The changes at Tableau Software in the eight months since CEO Adam Selipsky succeeded co-founder Christian Chabot have been “pretty radical,” says Dan Murray, director of strategic innovation at InterWorks, one of Tableau’s earliest partners if not the first. “There’s been pretty much of a brain-ectomy” over the last few months, he told me by […]The seductiveness of Power BI
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