Tableau Software Positioned as a Challenger in Magic Quadrant Report for Business Intelligence Platforms

SEATTLE, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Tableau Software, the global leader in data visualization and business intelligence software (http://www.tableausoftware.com/business-intelligence-software), today announced that Gartner Inc. has positioned Tableau as a "Challenger" in its 2010 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms* report. Gartner defines a Business Intelligence platform as a software platform that delivers capabilities around integration, information delivery and analysis. The report evaluated 15 different software vendors and placed Tableau in the challengers quadrant based on its ability to execute and the company's completeness of vision. The full report is available from the Tableau website at http:/www.tableausoftware.com/gartner.

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Tableau's business intelligence software is designed for enterprises to rapidly and visually analyze their data in any format and of any size. Tableau's BI suite brings business dashboards (http://www.tableausoftware.com/business-dashboards) and data visualization (http://www.tableausoftware.com/data-visualization-software) to organizations of all sizes. Award-winning Tableau Desktop lets people create interactive reports, dashboards and visualizations using an easy drag & drop interface. Tableau Server, also an award winner, provides a complete web-based business intelligence solution for distribution, sharing and collaborating.

Bill Priakos, chief operating officer of Dallas Cowboys Merchandising, testifies to Tableau's business intelligence strengths. "Game day environment in retail is literally 70,000 people wanting to buy merchandise in just 4 hours. We need answers immediately," said Priakos. "Before Tableau, we couldn't get the right answers when we needed them. Now for the first time in 14 years, our people can see real-time data. We're having Eureka moments all over our organization because of Tableau."

"By including Tableau in its Magic Quadrant, we believe Gartner recognizes what Tableau customers already know. Innovative, rapid-fire business intelligence software that's easy for both IT and end-users helps organizations be smarter, more agile and efficient," said Christian Chabot, Tableau's CEO and co-founder.

*Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms" by Rita L. Sallam, et al. January 29, 2010.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted January 29, 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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 can scale to organizations of any size or reach. For more information, please visit http://www.tableausoftware.com.

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