Tableau Software Threatened? Rival Growing at 70% Just Raised $103M
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Re: Tableau Software Threatened? Rival Growing at 70% Just Raised $103M
#2Not really a threat. this article is mostly about Looker, which is a very different product with a significantly higher entry level price tag. Tableau on the other hand is part of the curriculum in many information science programs in colleges, and is significantly embedded in the enterprise sector. it will take significant stagnation on Tableua's part or a black swan type of event to dislodge them any time soon.
Re: Tableau Software Threatened? Rival Growing at 70% Just Raised $103M
#3Not really a threat. this article is mostly about Looker, which is a very different product with a significantly higher entry level price tag. Tableau on the other hand is part of the curriculum in many information science programs in colleges, and is significantly embedded in the enterprise sector. it will take significant stagnation on Tableua's part or a black swan type of event to dislodge them any time soon.
2k hook in for the license and then charging half a mil for actually implementing your data and biz model?
Re: Tableau Software Threatened? Rival Growing at 70% Just Raised $103M
#4Growing a startup '70%' is very different to running a publicly listed global company
'...Looker is trying to become cash flow positive -- and its revenues are growing faster than its headcount. "We have visibility to cash flow break even over the next couple of years. We plateaued in spending. We now have 600 employees and expect to add 200 in 2019. We are seeing our cash burn rate decline," he explained.'
Re: Tableau Software Threatened? Rival Growing at 70% Just Raised $103M
#5I'm not sure the analysis front-end is really where the money is at. There are lots of industries that have trouble getting their data to a place where it can be analyzed at all. I know some very successful companies here in flyover country that picked a sector where this is a problem and made a business of fixing it.
Re: Tableau Software Threatened? Rival Growing at 70% Just Raised $103M
#6Just a question on wording, but doesn't 70% imply currentRevenue * .7. Whereas they really mean 170% aka currentRevenue * 1.7?
Re: Tableau Software Threatened? Rival Growing at 70% Just Raised $103M
#7Just a question on wording, but doesn't 70% imply currentRevenue * .7. Whereas they really mean 170% aka currentRevenue * 1.7?
It can mean anything the company wants. 70% more site visits per month, trial users, support requests, paid users etc etc. Unless explicitly stated, it's hard to determine what metric they are talking about.
Re: Tableau Software Threatened? Rival Growing at 70% Just Raised $103M
#8Not really a threat. this article is mostly about Looker, which is a very different product with a significantly higher entry level price tag. Tableau on the other hand is part of the curriculum in many information science programs in colleges, and is significantly embedded in the enterprise sector. it will take significant stagnation on Tableua's part or a black swan type of event to dislodge them any time soon.
Bit of anecdata: I used Looker in a previous gig, where we used it mostly a development tool for constructing and optmising difficult queries. The business continued to use Tableau for BI.
Re: Tableau Software Threatened? Rival Growing at 70% Just Raised $103M
#9Just a question on wording, but doesn't 70% imply currentRevenue * .7. Whereas they really mean 170% aka currentRevenue * 1.7?
Growth is expressed as % over the previous period, not of previous period, so 70% is the right number in this context.
Re: Tableau Software Threatened? Rival Growing at 70% Just Raised $103M
#10This is another "Forbes Contributor" post. This means that it's just a blog post, though, admittedly, Cohan is a smart guy.
Does anyone else think Forbes should do more to separate volunteer content from editorially directed and reviewed journalistic content? Or is this just a moot point since folks don't trust "Forbes" as a brand?
It feels like, to me, someone saying "I went to Stanford" in a conversation because they walked on the campus. Just because Forbes hosts the content doesn't mean it's at the same quality as a true Forbes spawned story.
Since the Forbes.com front page appears to now be almost 3/4 contributors, I guess it's working for them. Still feels wrong.