Coca-Cola Enterprises and Yale University benefit from the company's new Desktop and Server visual analysis applications. SEATTLE, Aug. 11
SEATTLE, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Tableau Software
(http://www.tableausoftware.com), the global leader in fast analytics and
visualization software, today announced the general availability of Tableau
4.0, the next generation of its Tableau Desktop
(http://www.tableausoftware.com/products/desktop) and Tableau Server
(http://www.tableausoftware.com/products/server) products. Customers such as
Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) and Yale University are among the first to
experience the benefits of this release. Major new features include one-click
analytical map creation, usability enhancements and capabilities to embed and
share live Tableau views with other applications such as Web applications,
intranets and documents. Tableau 4.0 is available for download at
http://www.tableausoftware.com/trial.
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CCE, a participant in the Tableau 4.0 beta program, uses the software to
analyze sales forecasting and forecasting accuracy data for its production
plants nationwide. With Tableau's granular visual analysis and flexible
reporting capabilities, CCE is able to quickly identify products, geographic
regions and specific accounts that are underperforming and more easily reach
high-level conclusions about its forecasting processes. Tableau gives the
company rapid visibility into problem areas across categories, business units,
channels, products and accounts and enables course corrections to be made much
earlier in the planning process than ever before, resulting in a significant
increase in revenue.
"In our business, accurately analyzing and forecasting sales quantities
can directly translate into increased revenue, so Tableau's ability to quickly
identify forecasting errors through easily understandable visual
representations of our data has been invaluable to us," said Andy Kriebel,
manager of forecasting and planning at Coca-Cola Enterprises. "To date, we're
already expecting a 3 percent increase in our forecasting accuracy, which will
result in more than $100 million in annual savings, and we anticipate that
Tableau 4.0 will enable us to achieve similar cost savings in years to come.
Tableau 4.0's new usability features, including the addition of personalized
views and visual representations, make the analysis and sharing of our data
across the organization even easier and more streamlined than before. This
lets us spend more time on data discovery and less time trying to organize and
manage our workbooks."
Yale University is implementing Tableau Desktop and Server to help manage
its $3.5-billion Yale Tomorrow capital campaign. The University's development
office desired an improved way to gain real-time access to information about
the campaign from multiple sources. Tableau 4.0's new integration features,
combined with its already powerful data analytics capabilities, made it an
obvious choice. Now, administrators can create easy-to-understand reports
quickly, and the mapping capabilities enable regional development officers to
gain new insights into performance by location. In the future, the development
office plans to build a SharePoint portal that includes embedded
visualizations from Tableau to enable the entire development staff and its
hundreds of alumni volunteers to benefit from real-time access to data.
In addition, The Yale Police Department and Campus Security office are
utilizing the mapping capabilities of Tableau to easily overlay incidence
report data on maps.
"Previously, our reports were difficult to generate and contained no
graphical representations of our data, which made it difficult to provide
useful insights into how to improve our operations," said Marcia Schels,
director of enterprise systems for the office of development and the office of
the secretary at Yale University. "We expect that Tableau 4.0 will help our
development office's campaign generate more results in less time.
Additionally, with Tableau 4.0, our public safety officers will be able to
maximize their resources while providing an even safer environment on campus."
Tableau 4.0, which was announced on July 21, 2008 during the company's
sold-out Customer Conference, combines powerful visual analysis capabilities
with the ability to easily share data findings throughout an organization.
Enhancements include:
-- Mapping: Tableau 4.0 immediately recognizes geographic data and enables
users to create meaningful analytic maps with just one mouse click.
-- Usability: Visual cues and representations, custom shapes and
personalized views make the data discovery and exploration process even easier
and more intuitive for users.
-- Sharing/Embedding: Tableau 4.0 allows users to embed visualizations
with real-time data into Web applications, Web sites and portals (and,
conversely, embed Web applications into Tableau), enabling people to see their
data where they're most likely to use it.
"Since debuting Tableau 4.0 at our first-ever Customer Conference in July,
the buzz around this release has been incredible," said Christian Chabot, CEO
of Tableau Software. "We're excited to be able to deliver a product that
incorporates so many of the features our customers have been asking for, and
we look forward to hearing how they're able to put these enhancements to use
in their day-to-day business processes."
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