If the folks at Tableau Software were looking to have their graphical desktop computing tool capture the attention of the consulting world, they might want to consider borrowing the words of Neil Armstrong (with some minor modifications, of course): "Tableau is one small step for desktop computing, one giant step for the consulting world."
While some consulting circles might cast a skeptical eye at such a grandiose slogan, it would behoove all doubters to evaluate Tableau v2.0, a desktop tool that allows users to look at data sets in a visual way (wherever they may reside). Already attracting a cult following among scattered groups of consultants within the profession's elite strategy houses, Tableau has heard the buzz surrounding its nifty tool set steadily escalate. Meanwhile, the universal reaction to the desktop tool among "Excel-hardened" consultants can be summed up with a single question: "What took so long?"
"The people in the graphics world and the people in the database world just don't talk to each other," explains Kevin Brown, vice president of marketing for Tableau, which began as an offshoot from a Stanford University research effort.
Perhaps keeping in mind the consulting world's "universal question," Brown doesn't hesitate to underscore his software's easy accessibility: "You can download it within three minutes. Point it at a customer data set, and go."
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