Tableau takes its data-analysis software to the cloud
July 18, 2013
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Derrick Harris.
Tableau Software, the poster boy for next-generation analytics software and, now, Wall Street darling, is taking to the cloud with a new Software-as-a-Service offering called Tableau Online. However, while the delivery model is new, the new product itself is really just the same Tableau Server option users have come to know and love (or not).
According to Ellie Fields, a product marketing manager at Tableau, the differences between the new offering and Tableau Server are “very minor” save for the way they’re bought and delivered. The cloud version is less expensive (only $500 per user per year) and is faster and easier to get started with, as SaaS versions of traditional software products tend to be…
Tableau Online has already attracted about 200 users during the time the company’s salespeople have been “soft selling” it under the radar, Fields said. Some are existing Server enterprise users that prefer a cloud-based version for different purposes and employees, but a lot are the smaller businesses that were previously priced out of the market for buying and maintaining Tableau’s desktop or server editions…
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