Foreword by Nate Vogel

Tableau was founded with a simple mission: helping people to see and understand their data. More than 15 years later, we are pursuing that same goal. A data‐driven corporate culture is the key to successful digitization. Companies that involve as many employees as possible in data evaluation and promote analytical thinking are well‐positioned.

Tableau gives people the power of data. We've designed our software to be flexible and capable of both helping a single person answer simple data questions and enabling thousands of people in a company to execute complex queries against massive databases.

This includes the cross‐departmental use of data, because not only the amount of data, but also the number of data sources, is increasing—especially through the triumph of the cloud. This opens up completely new possibilities for analysis: With the help of professional solutions, information from different areas can be combined and integrated...