Gigabit January 2019

Tableau has gotten ahead and emerged as a
leader by taking
a very intuitive, beautiful, and highly interactive
approach to visualising data. We talk
about having the software ‘fall away’ so that
it’s just you having a conversation with your
data and that’s still at the very centre of what
we do as a company.” Whether it’s being
used to analyse energy efficiency, industrial
performance political outcomes and more,
the use of data is becoming commonplace in
almost every sector. Not only has it become
more prevalent but the wealth of information
and data on offer has also swelled. As such,
Tableau has not only focused on visualisation
and analytics but has also had to consider
other pressing questions like how society
should manage this vast amount of information?
As companies deal with more customers
who bring with them more data, it’s no longer
just a case of visualising and analytics, data
management has also emerged as a top
priority. “If we have more and more data, we
also have more and more data sources,”
Selipsky explains. “If we have thousands of
people accessing data sources in our
organisation, how do they even know what
data sources to access? How will they know
what data is available to them? There’s
a whole series of data management challenges
and that’s become a really important
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