As we get ready to release Tableau 8.0, we would like to share the vision behind our product direction. Our company’s mission, “to help people see and understand data,” has been at the heart of Tableau’s product direction since our founding. Our mission is articulated in detail on our mission page.

This version includes over 90 new features supporting this mission. Learn more in our Tableau 8.0 Feature Overview.

A big part of our vision is empowering people to answer their own questions from data, whether they are a doctor, scientist, video game designer, business analyst, or executive. To do this we need to develop products that don’t require expertise in SQL, statistics, graphic design, perception, or visualization. We work to build this expertise into our products for you.