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Stephen Few, Author, Founder of Perceptual Edge and Lecturer at University of California at Berkeley

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Overview

There is no way to easily weave data into knowledge…
Are we enlightening our audience or frustrating our audience?
Data and the use of data are the sexy jobs of the next decade

A video with Hal Varian at UC- Berkeley and Google was shown in an interview
– Managers should be able to examine the data themselves
– Old organizations required armies of people for leaders to see the data
– Instead, we should enable access to the data for everyone

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Chris Stolte, Chief Development Officer, Tableau (co-founder, Tableau Software)- on-stage
Dan Jewett, VP of Product Management
Francoise Ajenstat, Director of Product Management

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Overview

Mission of dev team- “Help people see and understand their data.”
Make data fun, anathema too many, but key to using data throughout the organization and entire decision-making process
 
 
Four key areas of investment for 6.1

Data performance
Sharing via mobile optimization with iPad
Localizing and globalizing the products- French and German
User experience- make every step easy, fast and fun!

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With Dan Jewett, VP of Product Management, Tableau
(Dan and Stephen previously worked together at Brio in the late 90’s)

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not necessarily those of Tableau

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Overview

Architecture
Hardware
Server config
Database or data engine@f21
Workbook optimizations for Server publishing

Growth rate
Winners- Microsoft, Oracle and IBM
Laggards- SAP and SAS

Market share
Winners- SAP, Oracle and SAS
Laggards- IBM and Microsoft

Growth combined with market share (using three-year ranks)
Winners- Oracle, SAP and Microsoft tied at 2nd
Laggards- IBM and SAS

From the recent Gartner press release, “There was little change year-on-year in terms of vendor rankings. SAP remained the No. 1 vendor in combined worldwide BI, analytics and PM software revenue in 2010, accounting for 23 percent of the market (see Table 1), followed by Oracle, SAS Institute, IBM and Microsoft.” I find this fairly interesting since the vast majority of companies I work with all cite Excel as the most frequently used analytics tool, by a long-shot. For more details on this thought, please review our second analysis that includes Excel in the “Analytics” market.

Without further delay, here is a dashboard summarizing the results, we have added data from 2008 for additional context and insight.

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