According to the market research firm IDC, annual data generation will reach 35 zettabytes by 2020 –enough data to fill a stack of DVDs reaching halfway to Mars. As a result, companies are recognizing the need for easy-to-use tools to help people sift through data in more efficient ways without big IT projects. This trend is reflected in the explosive growth of business intelligence, currently estimated as an $8B industry and projected to reach $12.4B by 2015.
"Tableau 6.0 is filled with innovations that help people take charge of massive data, regardless of their job function or IT capacity," said Christian Chabot, CEO of Tableau Software. "Our new Tableau Data Engine achieves instant query response on hundreds of millions of data rows, even on hardware as basic as a corporate laptop. And it integrates with our ability to 'direct connect' to virtually any database. No other platform allows companies to choose in-memory analytics on gigabytes of data or 'direct connect' to data warehouses like Teradata. What we have achieved with 6.0 is a computer science breakthrough."
The future of business intelligence is Tableau 6.0 - a true game-changer. New features found in 6.0 include:
* Data blending with one-click: Now people can combine multiple data sources on-the-fly. New data blending capabilities fundamentally change what people can do with data. What was previously a 6-week data integration project is now a drag-and-drop operation with Tableau 6.0. Data can be blended regardless of where it's stored: in enterprise databases, Excel spreadsheets, text files or any combination.
* Analysis at the speed of thought: Tableau's new data engine is faster than existing solutions, allowing users to interactively analyze massive data volumes with instant query times. Unlike most other solutions, it integrates seamlessly with existing corporate data warehouses and infrastructure.
* In-memory without the limitations: The Tableau Data Engine is a break-through analytics database designed to speed data querying by 10 to 100 times and to overcome the limitations of existing databases. When data is too big for in-memory processing, 6.0 provides a flexible architecture that can optimize data processing across all available hardware.
