Tableau Software Receives 2010 Editor's Best Gold and Three Community Choice Awards from Windows IT Pro Magazine

SEATTLE, Nov. 22, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Tableau Software, the global leader in rapid-fire business intelligence software, today announced that its applications won four "excellence" awards from Penton Media's Windows IT Pro® magazine. Tableau received the "Editor's Best: Gold" award and the gold "Community Choice Award" for "best business intelligence" product. The company also won the silver "Community Choice Award" for best vendor tech support. Tableau Public, the free application for creating web-based interactive graphs, received the bronze "Community Choice Award" for best free tool.

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The 2010 Editors' Best Awards represent recognition of editors', contributors', and authors' favorite products of the year, based on a product's strategic importance to market, its competitive advantages, and its value to the customer. The Community Choice Awards are voted on by the SQL Server community, weighing products and services that increase performance in crucial business processes.

"When industry experts like SQL Server Magazine and its community choose you for not just one award but four, it carries a lot of significance," said Christian Chabot, CEO and co-founder of Tableau. "We truly appreciate that these awards come to us because of our customers. We measure our success by their daily victories."

This month, Tableau Software announced the general availability of Tableau 6.0. The release brings a new data engine with blazing speeds to Tableau's signature ease-of-use and visual analytics. Tableau 6.0 shifts BI into the do-it-now era by offering the most flexible solution in the market. It enables everyone—from enterprises to enterprising individuals—to rapidly access and analyze all their data for smarter and faster business decisions.

"The SQL Server community responded enthusiastically this year to the awards program, weighing in on products and services that extend SQL Server's native  performance and manageability and support the databases that run mission-critical business processes," stated Editorial Director Michele Crockett.

"Our Editors' Best Awards let us leverage our contributing editors' expertise to provide well-earned recognition to products that exceed industry standards," said Jason Bovberg, senior editor at Windows IT Pro This year, we've added valuable, in-the-trenches insight about winning products from our reader community and we're proud to share this information with our Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine communities. Our winners should be extremely proud of the recognition from our editorial experts."

About Tableau Software

Tableau Software is the leading provider of fast analytics and data visualization software. Tableau's 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.

About Windows IT Pro and Penton Media, Inc.

Windows IT Pro is the leading and largest independent voice in Windows IT, with more than 2.5 million visits per month, and consists of a multitude of print and online channels. In addition to the flagship Windows IT Pro magazine, our technology network includes SQL Server Magazine, SharePointPro  Connections and DevProConnections. Other online channels include blogs, forums, podcasts, RSS feeds, webinars, virtual events, white papers, newsletters, classes and more. IT professionals get objective, "direct from the trenches" information about Microsoft's latest Windows-based solutions and gain essential insight for keeping business-critical Microsoft applications up and running. For more information, visit www.windowsitpro.com.

Penton Media, Inc. is the largest independent business-to-business media company in the United States, serving more than 6 million business professionals every month. The company's market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and include 113 trade magazines, 145 websites, 150 industry trade shows and conferences, and more than 500 information data products. For additional information about the company and its businesses, visit www.penton.com.

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