Tableau Software is an American interactive data visualization software company focused on business intelligence.
| FactSnippet No. 1,653,163 |
14 Facts About Tableau Software
1.
2.
Tableau Software has a mapping functionality, and is able to plot latitude and longitude coordinates and connect to spatial files like Esri Shapefiles, KML, and GeoJSON to display custom geography.
| FactSnippet No. 1,653,164 |
3.
Tableau Software can connect the following data sources Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Text Files, import from workbook, Table data Extract.
| FactSnippet No. 1,653,165 |
4.
Tableau Software was founded in January 2003 by Pat Hanrahan, Christian Chabot, and Chris Stolte, and moved its headquarters to the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, the following year.
| FactSnippet No. 1,653,166 |
5.
Tableau Software has since expanded its Fremont headquarters and announced plans in 2016 for an auxiliary campus in suburban Kirkland, Washington.
| FactSnippet No. 1,653,167 |
6.
In June 2018, Tableau Software acquired Empirical Systems, a Cambridge, Massachusetts based artificial intelligence startup, with plans to integrate the company's technology into the Tableau Software platform.
| FactSnippet No. 1,653,168 |
7.
Tableau Software announced plans to establish an office in Cambridge as a result of the deal.
| FactSnippet No. 1,653,169 |
8.
On June 10,2019, Tableau Software was acquired by Salesforce in an all-stock deal worth over $15 billion.
| FactSnippet No. 1,653,170 |
9.
In March 2021, Tableau Software announced the appointment of Mark Nelson as president and CEO, replacing Adam Selipsky.
| FactSnippet No. 1,653,171 |
10.
Notable Tableau Software employees include Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Phil Carter and computer scientist and author Leland Wilkinson.
| FactSnippet No. 1,653,172 |
11.
On May 17,2013, Tableau Software launched an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, raising more than $250 million.
| FactSnippet No. 1,653,173 |
12.
On December 2,2010, Tableau Software deleted WikiLeaks' visualizations about the United States diplomatic cables leak, stating it was due to direct political pressure from US Senator Joe Lieberman.
| FactSnippet No. 1,653,174 |
13.
Tableau Software likened the new policy to the model set forth in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and opined that under the new policy, Wikileaks' visuals would not have been removed, as "the underlying data were statistics about the cables, not the cables themselves".
| FactSnippet No. 1,653,175 |
14.
In 2008, Tableau was named a Codie award winner for "Best Business Intelligence Solution" by the Software and Information Industry Association.
| FactSnippet No. 1,653,176 |