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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