industry computer software founded seattle washington 2003 founder christian chabot chris stolte pat hanrahan headquarters seattle washington u.s. key people adam selipsky ceo christian chabot co founder and chairman of the board chris stolte co founder and technical advisor andrew beers cdo pat hanrahan chief scientist and co founder revenue us 412 616 000 2014 us 232 440 000 2013 1 net income us 5 873 000 2014 us 7 076 000 2013 1 number of employees 3 248 august 2016 website tableau.com tableau software t b lo tab loh is an american computer software company headquartered in seattle washington . it produces a family of interactive data visualization products focused on business intelligence . 2 contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 versions 3 stock prices 4 industry recognition and awards 5 withdrawal of services from wikileaks 6 references 7 external links history edit the company was founded in mountain view california in january 2003 by chris stolte christian chabot and pat hanrahan . 3 their initial aim was to commercialize research conducted at stanford university s department of computer science between 1999 and 2002 . 4 professor pat hanrahan and ph.d. student chris stolte who specialized in visualization techniques for exploring and analyzing relational databases and data cubes 5 led research in the use of table based displays to browse multidimensional relational databases . 6 together they combined a structured query language for databases with a descriptive language for rendering graphics and invented a database visualization language called vizql visual query language . 7 vizql formed the core of the polaris system an interface for exploring large multi dimensional databases . 8 in 2003 tableau was spun out of stanford 9 with an eponymous software application . the product queries relational databases cubes cloud databases and spreadsheets and then generates a number of graph types that can be combined into dashboards and shared over a computer network or the internet . the founders moved the company to seattle washington in october 2003 where it remains headquartered today . 10 on may 17 2013 tableau launched an initial public offering ipo on the new york stock exchange raising more than 250 million usd . 11 prior to its ipo tableau raised over 45 million in venture capital investment from investors such as nea and meritech . 11 the company s 2013 revenue reached 232.44 million an 82 % growth over 2012 s 128 million . 12 in 2010 tableau reported revenue of 34.2 million . that figure grew to 62.4 million in 2011 and 127.7 million in 2012 . profit during the same periods came to 2.7 million 3.4 million and 1.6 million respectively . 13 in august 2016 tableau announced the appointment of adam selipsky as president and ceo effective september 16 2016 replacing co founder christian chabot as ceo . 14 products edit tableau offers five main products tableau desktop tableau server tableau online tableau reader and tableau public . tableau public and tableau reader are free to use while both tableau server and tableau desktop come with a 14 day fully functional free trial period after which the user must pay for the software . tableau desktop comes in both a professional and a lower cost personal edition . tableau online is available with an annual subscription for a single user and scales to support thousands of users . 15 tableau vizable a consumer data visualization mobile app was released in 2015 . 16 versions edit as of august 2016 the current stable versions of tableau products are tableau desktop 10.0 tableau server 10.0 tableau reader 10.0 tableau online cloud based tableau public cloud based tableau vizable mobile app stock prices edit tableau software went public on may 17 2013 with an ipo offering of 47 per share . 17 over the period of next two years prices almost tripled the stock crashed in february 2016 to an all time low of 37 18 and was trading around 47 in may as the markets recovered . as on aug 11 2016 the price per share stands at around 53 . industry recognition and awards edit tableau software has won awards including best overall in data visualization by dm review best of 2005 for data analysis by pc magazine 19 and 2008 best business intelligence solution codie award by the software & information industry association . 20 2015 magic quadrant for business intelligence and analytics platforms market leader 1 in ability to execute leader in completeness in vision . 21 withdrawal of services from wikileaks edit on december 2 2010 tableau was one of the first companies to withdraw support from wikileaks after they started publishing us embassy cables . 22 although the company stated it was not a decision that they took lightly 23 they also stated it was directly due to political pressure our decision to remove the data from our servers came in response to a public request by senator joe lieberman who chairs the senate homeland security committee when he called for organizations hosting wikileaks to terminate their relationship with the website . on february 21 2011 tableau posted an updated data policy . 24 the accompanying blog post cited the two main changes as 1 creating a formal complaint process and 2 using freedom of speech as a guiding principle . 25 in addition the post announced the creation of an advisory board to help the company navigate future situations that push the boundaries of the policy . 25 robert kosara of tableau likened the new policy to the model set forth in the digital millennium copyright act and opined that under the new policy the wikileaks cables would not have been removed . 26 references edit a b 99.1 01 q4 2014 . sec . 2 february 2015 . retrieved 26 february 2015 . tableau business intelligence . tableau software . retrieved 2013 04 11 . software license agreement . securities and exchange commission sec . retrieved 2014 04 23 . how to get a 20 million dollar pre money valuation for series a tableau software ceo christian chabot part 3 . one million by one million by sramana mitra . retrieved 2014 04 23 . christopher r. stolte ph.d. candidate stanford . graphics.stanford.edu . retrieved 2011 11 16 . pat hanrahan . graphics.stanford.edu . retrieved 2011 11 16 . vizql a language for query analysis and visualization . sigmod 06 proceedings of the 2006 acm sigmod international conference on management of data . acm . doi 10.1145 1142473.1142560 . isbn 1 59593 434 0 . polaris database and data cube visualization . graphics.stanford.edu . retrieved 2011 11 16 . tableau software inc. private company information . investing.businessweek.com . businessweek . march 14 2011 . retrieved 2011 11 16 . tableau ceo chabot seattle is the promised land of startup america . geekwire . retrieved 2014 04 23 . a b lunden ingrid may 17 2013 . big data analytics specialist tableau software raises 254m in ipo . techcrunch . retrieved april 29 2014 . financial statements for tableau software inc google finance . google.com finance . google finance . retrieved 29 april 2015 . forms s 1 . sec . retrieved 2013 04 11 . lerman rachel 22 august 2016 . seattle times . retrieved 23 august 2016 . tableau desktop pricing . https vizable.tableau.com cnbc big data s ipo tableau software is a big one reuters ceos venture backers lose big as linkedin tableau shares tumble software business tableau best of the year . pcmag.com . november 11 2005 . retrieved 2011 11 16 . 2008 codie award winners . siia.net . magic quadrant for business intelligence and analytics platforms . gartner.com . retrieved 7 october 2015 . arthur charles ; halliday josh january 8 2010 . wikileaks under attack the definitive timeline . the guardian . london . fink elissa december 2 2010 . why we removed the wikileaks visualizations . tableau software . the data is in new policy & advisory board for tableau public . tableau software . 2011 02 21 . retrieved 2015 04 07 . a b fink elissa february 21 2011 . the data is in new policy & advisory board for tableau public . tableau software . kosara robert february 22 2011 . tableau public s new data policy . eagereyes blog . retrieved march 13 2013 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tableau software & oldid 742621619 categories companies listed on the new york stock exchangedata visualization softwarebusiness softwaredata analysis softwarebusiness intelligence companiescompanies based in seattlehidden categories official website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export 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