-- Tableau 2019.3 brings automatic data insights to Tableau platform and 
extends natural language functionality to enable analytics for everyone

-- Release also provides new capabilities for data cataloging, server 
management, security and additional data connectors

Tableau Software ( 
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), the leading analytics platform, today announced the general availability of 
Explain Data, a new capability built directly in Tableau that enables people to 
experience the power of advanced statistical analysis with a single click. With 
no complex data modeling or data science expertise required, anyone is able to 
instantly uncover AI-driven insights about their data. Explain Data uses 
sophisticated statistical algorithms to analyze all available data on behalf of 
the analyst and automatically explain the most relevant factors driving any 
given data point. In doing so, Explain Data brings powerful analytics to more 
people and helps them discover insights that would be difficult or 
time-consuming to find. Explain Data is available today at no extra charge as 
part of Tableau's latest release, Tableau 2019.3. For more information or to 
upgrade, visit: https://www.tableau.com/products/new-features.  

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"With Explain Data, we're bringing the power of AI-driven analysis to everyone 
and making sophisticated statistical analysis more accessible so that, 
regardless of expertise, anyone can quickly and confidently uncover the 'Why?' 
behind their data," said Francois Ajenstat, Chief Product Officer at Tableau. 
"Explain Data will empower people to focus on the insights that matter and 
accelerate the time to action and business impact."  

Explain Data accelerates the analytical process and helps people quickly 
discover and understand the factors influencing changes within their data - 
with no set up, data prep or data modeling required. Traditionally, to 
understand the cause driving a particular data point or outlier, people must 
manually determine and validate the potential explanations, a process that can 
be time consuming and miss plausible answers. With the release of Explain Data 
in Tableau 2019.3, they can simply select a data point in a visualization and 
Tableau will use powerful Bayesian statistical methods to automatically 
evaluate hundreds of patterns and potential explanations across all the 
available data in seconds. Explain Data delivers the most relevant, 
statistically significant explanations as interactive visualizations which 
customers can further explore with the full power of Tableau. 

Explain Data also reduces the risk of error from human bias that can restrict 
analysis, helping people uncover meaningful insights they may have missed. A 
person tasked with answering a data question like, "What's contributing to 
customer churn?" often must limit their analysis to a set of predetermined 
hypotheses. Explain Data evaluates every dimension in the data set 
automatically, and makes it possible for anyone to uncover hidden insights. 
Explain Data augments a person's skills and inherent understanding of the data 
with advanced statistical techniques that would otherwise be reserved for 
experts. 

"Within JLL, thousands of employees use Tableau on a daily basis to help them 
see and understand their data. The evolution of self-service analytics is that 
people are empowered to ask even more questions of their data; going from 
intrigue to insight. We anticipate Explain Data will be a game changer that 
enables guided analytics and helps people to ask the right questions and 
uncover insights faster," said Simon Beaumont, Global BI CoE Director, at JLL. 
"Explain Data allows anyone, whatever their level of data knowledge, to explore 
their data and 'go beyond the number' to understand not only the what, but also 
the why -- the true definition of democratizing data."

Tableau 2019.3 Expands NLP Functionality; Introduces New Connectors and 
Enhanced Security 
Dozens of new product features are also included with the upgrade to Tableau 
2019.3 including new ways to engage with Tableau's natural language (NLP) 
capability, Ask Data. Now, Ask Data's natural language functionality can be 
embedded, such as within a company portal or Intranet page, so that more people 
are encouraged to use the capability as part of their daily role, asking data 
questions in plain language like, "What were my sales in Seattle last month?" 
With the ability to embed Ask Data, organizations will enable even more people 
to interact with data, empowering employees with a visualization that they can 
continue to refine and explore using Tableau's full analytics capabilities. 

For added layers of security, Tableau Server customers can now encrypt their 
data extracts at rest, ensuring all extracts published and stored via Tableau 
Server are encrypted. Tableau also continues to add new data connectors to the 
platform with every release. With 2019.3, customers using Spark for machine 
learning and data science can now benefit from a native data connector to 
Databricks. Additionally, all Tableau products are now available in localized 
versions for Italian. 

Alongside the release of Tableau 2019.3, today, Tableau announced the launch of 
Tableau Catalog, a new set of cataloging capabilities now included in the Data 
Management Add-On that provide a holistic view of all the data used in Tableau 
for improved visibility and enhanced data discovery. Additionally, to offer 
customers more control in how they manage and scale business critical 
deployments, Tableau released a new offering to address the unique security, 
manageability and scalability needs of enterprise customers, the Tableau Server 
Management Add-On.

To learn more about today's releases and upgrade to Tableau 2019.3, visit: 
https://www.tableau.com/products/new-features.  

About Tableau
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platform empowers people of any skill level to work with data. From individuals 
and non-profits to government agencies and the Fortune 500, tens of thousands 
of customers around the world use Tableau to get rapid insights and make 
impactful, data-driven decisions. See how Tableau can help you by downloading 
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SOURCE: Tableau Software

CONTACT: Dan Jensen, +1 (206) 634-5490, djensen@tableau.com