Why Buy Tableau Flashcards

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“The one instant gain from my team’s perspective was we’re saving months of work here because my team no longer has to get stuck in a quagmire that is creating reports in excel.”

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  • Andy Cotgreave, Oxford University
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“Reporting that used to take 8 hours takes 15 minutes.”

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  • Andy Shotwell, Progressive
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“We no longer have to spend time building data warehouses simply to analyze our data.”

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  • Chris Lohroff, PeopleCube
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“10x the analysis in half the time, with half the staff.”

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Cornell University

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“With other BI tools… there was a wall between the engineers who were building the reports… and the business users who needed to use those reports to make decisions… that wall prevented us from being able to iterate rapidly to decisions.”

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David Botkin, Playdom

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“Tableau products put incredibly powerful reporting and analytical tools in the hands of operating people - people who know their business and who can, given insightful information, make better decisions.”

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Bill Attridge, HTM

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“It lets me focus more on DBA work and less on developing cusotm queries for my business analyst.”

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Stuart Johnson, Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services

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“To date, we’re expecting a 3 percent increase in our forecast accuracy, which will result in more than $100 million in annual savings.”

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Andy Kriebal, Coca-Cola

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“Tableau helped us visualize the data. When you’re talking to grantors, you need to show results in an easy-to-understand, visually enticing way.”

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Jennifer Hayden, Louisiana Breast and Crevical Health Program

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“I can tell the stories that need to be told and people believe me.”

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Cynthia Lait, EMC

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So easy to scale and maintain

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“In about a week, we had approximately 100 Tableau users. Two weeks after that, we were pushing 200. And by the time we got to the end of six weeks, we had 400 users in the tool. So it’s one of the most impressive ROI messages I think you can find with any software.”

  • Paul Lilford, UnitedHealthcare
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“The companies that can wade through that stream of information and pull out the nuggets of information that lead to discovery and insight… that’s going to make the difference between success and failure.”

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Tom Hudgins, EMC

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“It empowers the business user to do business analytics. Its not a technical function. I don’t have to write code to develop things anymore, I give them an environment and they (business users) develop it.”

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Paul Lilford, United Health Care Director of BI

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Self Service

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“I spend less than an hour a month maintaining the environment that supports 1400 users. It’s the easiest software I maintain. I have no help desk calls, only calls of ‘can I get another licenses?’.”

  • Paul Lilford, Director of BI United Healthcare
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Value for Executives

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“For an executive used to taking on 7000 slide PowerPoint decks, now with one dashboard from Tableau you’re there. No waiting, reading, just interact and find the answers and move forward.”

  • Stuart Watson, VP of Emerging Media Camelot Strategic Marketing & Media
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More productivity

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“We have done things with Tableau with 5 people that would have taken a significant amount of time to do with 50 people.”
- Scott Burill, Partner & Managing Director
Rosenblatt Securities

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Power of Analysis

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Rosenblatt Securities usese Tableau to analyze every tick and quote for 9000 stocks.