Although Microsoft Excel does has a limited set of visualization options for charts and graphs, this is not the primary function of the app itself so the functionality is understandably narrow.

Data visualization is perhaps the most promising of formats with the proliferation of Big Data. Stimulating multiple areas of the brain, visual feedback is one of the best paths to knowledge ...

Last week, I agreed to a briefing about Tableau 8.0, the company’s latest release and what they say is the biggest product news of the year. Well, I am unimpressed. The new Tableau software is robust, ...

Salesforce Inc.’s data visualization platform Tableau Software today introduced a major update that includes further extensions to its visualization capabilities and also promises to help ...

Tableau Software, a visual analytics solution provider, has acquired Empirical Systems, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup. Tableau will integrate Empirical Systems’ automated statistical ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Data on its own can be bewildering, apparently meaningless ...

On the heels of Google buying analytics startup Looker last week for $2.6 billion, Salesforce today announced a huge piece of news in a bid to step up its own work in data visualization and (more ...

ClearGraph founders Ryan Atallah and Andrew Vigneault at Tableau Software’s Palo Alto office. (Tableau Photo) Tableau Software has acquired ClearGraph, a Palo Alto, Calif. startup that helps people ...

Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky at Tableau Conference 2016 in Austin. Credit: Tableau Software. Tableau Software revealed an array of new data visualization and analytics tools at its annual ...