Although Microsoft Excel does has a limited set of visualization options for charts and graphs, this is not the primary function of the app itself so the functionality is understandably narrow.

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 ...

Tableau is a data visualization tool that helps users create charts, graphs, maps and dashboards for visualizing and analyzing data. It provides a platform for understanding data, and for sharing ...

Salesforce Inc.’s data visualization platform Tableau Software today introduced a major update that includes further extensions to its visualization capabilities and also promises to help ...

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 ...

Companies are still trying to figure out the best ways to use the data they collect, said Lee Feinberg, President of DecisionViz, a product of e-thusiasm, Inc. On theCUBE at Tableau Software, Inc.’s ...

Tableau is releasing an upgraded version of its comprehensive data visualization platform, introducing a new mobile app and a web data connector that will allow developers to do more with their data. ...

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, ...

Christian Chabot, in an exclusive interview, explains how Tableau Software is putting a consumerized face on business intelligence and analytics There’s a reason big companies put business ...