Tableau Software - A Guide to Readers

Tableau Software is a dashboard reporting tool that literally revolutionized the way I create reports and analyze my data. Using an extremely intuitive user interface, you simply point to the excel (or other various database) file, import the fields you want to analyze, and start dragging and dropping metrics and dimensions on to the page. Within minutes, you can create detailed multi-level charts that would normally take hours within excel.Tableau Software is an American computer software company headquartered in Seattle, WA, USA. It produces a family of interactive data visualization products focused on rapid-fire business intelligence, and is reportedly anticipating revenue of $30 million to $40 million in 2010.The real beauty is in the ability to drag and drop worksheets into a dashboard, allowing you to dynamically re-size and move the charts at will - other options include automatic captioning of reports, which sounds cheesy, but works incredibly well. I could go on and on, but you really need to try it for yourself. Just do a search for Tableau software and you should find their site - they are currently running a 14 free trial, so you've got nothing to lose...except the money you're going to shell out AFTER you see how awesome it is.