Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Data on its own can be bewildering, apparently meaningless ...

The Web-based version of Tableau’s analytics system allows data visualizations to be published, reused, and embedded in Web pages as if they were YouTube videos ...

Data visualization is perhaps the most promising of formats with the proliferation of Big Data. Stimulating multiple areas of the brain, visual feedback is one of the best paths to knowledge ...

Last week, I agreed to a briefing about Tableau 8.0, the company’s latest release and what they say is the biggest product news of the year. Well, I am unimpressed. The new Tableau software is robust, ...

There are people who have the time and talent necessary to stare at columns and rows of data, plug in variables and use sophisticated software tools to help them understand and solve problems and ...

Through a partnership with Cloudera, Tableau Software has built a Hadoop connector for doing big data visualization. The new connector uses Hive to collect data across distributed nodes. That data is ...

ClearGraph founders Ryan Atallah and Andrew Vigneault at Tableau Software’s Palo Alto office. (Tableau Photo) Tableau Software has acquired ClearGraph, a Palo Alto, Calif. startup that helps people ...