Tableau

“The idea was always a product that could compete with Tableau and Power BI and Looker and your SQL runner and sort of do everything all in one place. And that was the product that we sort of pitched and were selling from day one. It was like, get rid of all of…”

“And very rarely is it a Tableau Power BI issue. It's something upstream somewhere that has failed, but no one knows what.”

“I think one of the things that we saw with analytics that, you know, was surprising to some of the people in the data infrastructure space was that, like, the workloads were actually quite predictable. They were quite predictable because, like, many of them we…”

“The way data analytics has been done, or if you look at the tools, you mentioned a bunch of tools. The way I look at it is they are sort of analogous to Photoshop, you know, like Photoshop is something that graphic designers use to create their Whatever cool a…”

“I think big company acquisitions like that, just, it's really hard to do anything but slow down the team. And frankly, that's what we've seen in both those cases.”

“All of their, not all of them, but the light, so many of the acquisitions, Slack, even Tableau, which I think was founded in the fifties. They're actually all growing faster than the core Salesforce. So like, we can say, oh, Slack isn't what it was, which it i…”

“Or you know, have modern technologies that were generally built in a software only world with like no consideration for hardware limitations or constraints. And so you might have new technologies like people use Tableau, right? Or like Looker or Grafana or Dat…”

“There's only certain brands that really are meaningful in our industry. And that's one. And look, it's going to trade once. So you have to decide, is this going to be part of your solution?”

“And my vision is if you're in Slack, you are in Tableau and you are in Salesforce.”

“And I think that Tableau is wrapping paper in Japan. You really wanted the toothbrush, but somehow what you really got was wrapping paper.”

“Data tech prior to 2016, always thought of data analysts as kind of low level, non-technical people. You can see that in Excel or Tableau or other products that like existed before that. Yeah, you can do powerful things with these products, but they're not fun…”

“I had a strong preference to use tools like mode or looker over a tool like tableau because tableau was pre cloud and it assumed that you were going to be able to download all the data that you needed to operate on into your local cache.”

“I think, again, this is, like, hand wavy. Who knows? Maybe that's all done. Dead now. And the reporting product of the future is just a box, and the box just goes to the database, and the box is just what was our best salesman last year? January. Okay. Who was…”

“As customers are contributing code to our platform, we are able to share that as part of our platform with the entire world. So it sort of opens up all the contributors in the world. To be part of our team and part of our development and innovation and really …”

“Looker and Tableau got acquired within a week of each other. And so again, now this gigantic market that is BI that has existed for the last 40 years has a pretty large sort of strategic hole in terms of there's not a new generational company that exists in BI…”

“I think that there still will be a future for BI companies, business intelligence, sort of, Tableau's, Looker's World. And, you know, dashboarding is done for a number of reasons. Sometimes it's just, you know, basically providing data in the consumable format…”

“What makes us special is that we don't have our own reporting UI, but we let you use whatever tool you already have in your organization, so we can bring the data for you into an Excel file, or in the Google Seeds, or Google Data Studio, Power BI, Tableau, wha…”

“But when you grow, you have to integrate with the ecosystem the organization is in, and we, for example, we have no feature to have a conversation in the data catalog, right? And that's intentional because we want to integrate with Slack, and that's why there'…”

“Yeah, those are the two that we see most frequently.”

“I mean, the Salesforce HVS is a, you know, one of 20 plus SKUs, right? And they've got Tableau to digest. Now they've got Slack to digest. It's going to be hard for them to, and they got a hundred million dollar deals they're out there doing with their other p…”

“There's a lot of like edge cases that BI tools do really terribly with, especially some of the more traditional business intelligence platforms like Tableau. So it's really bad at pushing data out. It's really bad at doing like ad hoc analysis. It doesn't have…”

“Yeah, exactly. It's expensive. And we're all still kind of in the reporting business.”

“What we're seeing is a trend away from legacy data warehouses into data lakes, which are then consumed both by people using modern visualization products, like say a Tableau, and also by lots and lots of data scientists”

“90% of the entire cohort raised more than 85 to a hundred million dollars. I mean, there are always exceptions like Stitch Fix, Zoopla in UK, and Tableau in Seattle, but really the vast majority of them have raised a lot of capital, especially in more recent t…”

“Tableau extracts are great, but they kind of fall over, either when the extract gets over a hundred million rows, a few hundred million rows, or when you have, like, streaming data doing the system.”

“The challenge with a lot of these SQL-like languages is they don't really let you use SQL-compliant tools, so you can't use your Tableau directly with it because it doesn't speak sort of standard SQL”

“Prior to Hortonworks IPO, you could go buy some Splunk, or you could buy Tableau, and there was really nothing else that was big data.”

“Despite companies like Tableau and others that like to talk about how visualizations tell a story, they actually don't tell stories.”

“I like Tableau as a company. It's in Seattle. Unfortunately, they're Windows only.”