Tableau is an intuitive, drag-and-drop tool that lets you see every change as you make it. You maintain your train of thought without taking your eyes off the data. Anyone comfortable with Excel can get up to speed on Tableau quickly.

At the heart of Tableau is a proprietary technology that makes interactive data visualization an integral part of understanding data. A traditional analysis tool forces you to analyze data in rows and columns, choose a subset of your data to present, organize that data into a table, then create a chart from that table. VizQL skips those steps and creates a visual representation of your data right away, giving you visual feedback as you analyze. As a result you get a much deeper understanding of your data and can work much faster than conventional methods–up to 100 times faster.