Tableau Software

Tableau Software

Type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: DATA
Industry	Software
Founded	Seattle, Washington (2003)
Founder	Christian Chabot Chris Stolte Pat Hanrahan
Headquarters	Seattle, Washington, United States
Key people	Adam Selipsky (CEO) Christian Chabot, Co-founder and Chairman of the Board Chris Stolte, Co-founder and Technical Advisor Andrew Beers, CDO Pat Hanrahan, Chief Scientist and Co-founder
Revenue	US$412,616,000 (2014) US$ 232,440,000 (2013)
Net income	US$ 5,873,000 (2014) US$ 7,076,000 (2013)
Number of employees	3,248 (August 2016)
Website	tableau.com

Tableau Software (/tæbˈloʊ/ tab-LOH) is a software company headquartered in Seattle, United States which produces interactive data visualization products focused on business intelligence. It initially began in order to commercialize research which had been conducted at Stanford University's Department of Computer Science between 1999 and 2002. It was founded in Mountain View, California in January, 2003 by Chris Stolte, who specialized in visualization techniques for exploring and analyzing relational databases and data cubes. The product queries relational databases, OLAP cubes, cloud databases, and spreadsheets and then generates a number of graph types.

Tableau has a mapping functionality, and is able to plot latitude and longitude coordinates. It has been criticized for being overly US-centric. They also offer custom geocoding, as well as five ways to access their products: Desktop (both professional and personal editions), Server, Online (which scales to support thousands of users), Reader and Public, with the last two free to use. Vizable, a consumer data visualization mobile app, was released in 2015.