Tableau Software Delivers Data With Confidence for Simpson Investment Company

SEATTLE, July 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Tableau Software, the global leader in rapid-fire business intelligence software, today announced that Simpson Investment Company has selected Tableau Software to help the company and its three business units analyze and understand data to make the right operational and business decisions to shape the future.  

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"We are a data-driven company," said Bob de Castro, IT director at Simpson Investment Company. "The hours people were spending gathering reports and data from various sources and manually importing, exporting and consolidating was staggering. We needed a solution that not only saved us time and money, but truly gave us confidence in the data to help guide our company to accuracy. Tableau was the answer."

Simpson Investment Company has deployed Tableau's rapid-fire business intelligence suite across its organization, including Simpson Lumber Company, LLC, Simpson Door Company and Simpson Tacoma Kraft Company, LLC.

Tableau's products provide browser-based business analytics anyone can use. Users can connect to virtually any data source and rapidly create interactive dashboards, reports and visualizations. In just a few clicks, they can share their work so that anyone using a browser can interact with and benefit from the live analytics. Tableau is a replacement of the slow pace and rigidity of traditional business intelligence software.

"Companies need access to accurate information about company performance. They don't have time for systems that require programmers to write custom reports, analysts to spend hours manipulating data or executives to make decisions without confidence," said Christian Chabot, CEO and co-founder of Tableau Software. "Simpson was looking for rapid-fire BI - a new kind of BI that helps people make their businesses dramatically more successful. Tableau delivered."

About Tableau Software

Tableau Software is the leading provider of fast analytics and data visualization software. Ranked by Inc. Magazine as one of the 500 fastest growing U.S. companies and one of the 25 fastest-growing software companies, its award-winning business intelligence applications can be downloaded at http://www.tableausoftware.com/trial. They enable anyone to easily create and share interactive data visualizations, dashboards and analytics, and they can scale to organizations of any size or reach. For more information, please visit http://www.tableausoftware.com.

About Simpson Investment Company

Founded in 1890, Simpson Investment Company is one of the oldest continuously operating forest product companies in the Pacific Northwest. Today, the company has three operating subsidiaries: Simpson Lumber Company, LLC, Simpson Door Company and Simpson Tacoma Kraft Company, LLC.

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