Tableau Software

Tableau Software, LLC
Company typeSubsidiary
NYSE: DATA (2013–2019)
IndustrySoftware
Founded2003; 21 years ago (2003), in Mountain View, California, U.S.
Founders
SuccessorSalesforce Edit this on Wikidata
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington
,
U.S.
Key people
  • Ryan Aytay (CEO)
  • Christian Chabot (Chairman)
Products
RevenueIncrease US$1.16 billion (2018)
Negative increase −US$90 million (2018)
Negative increase −US$77 million (2018)
Total assetsIncrease US$1.63 billion (2018)
Total equityIncrease US$1.01 billion (2018)
Number of employees
4,181 (2018)
ParentSalesforce
Websitetableau.com
Footnotes / references
[1]

Tableau Software, LLC (/tæbˈloʊ/ tab-LOH) is an American interactive data visualization software company focused on business intelligence.[2][3] It was founded in 2003 in Mountain View, California, and is currently headquartered in Seattle, Washington.[4] In 2019, the company was acquired by Salesforce for $15.7 billion.[5] At the time, this was the largest acquisition by Salesforce (a leader in the CRM field) since its foundation.[6] It was later surpassed by Salesforce's acquisition of Slack.[7]

The company's founders, Christian Chabot, Pat Hanrahan and Chris Stolte, were researchers at the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University.[8] They specialized in visualization techniques for exploring and analyzing relational databases and data cubes,[9] and started the company as a commercial outlet for research at Stanford from 1999 to 2002.

Tableau products query relational databases, online analytical processing cubes, cloud databases, and spreadsheets to generate graph-type data visualizations. The software can also extract, store, and retrieve data from an in-memory data engine.

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