The biggest thing Tableau did for us was it changed the paradigm that people had with

looking at business intelligence and how you get to quick analytics. It took them away

from thinking about how you accomplish it and focused them on looking at the business

question to get them there.

Paul Lilford, Director of EPM & BI, UnitedHealthcare

I like the fact that it empowers the business user to do business analytics and it's not

a technical function for the company. I don't have to write code to develop things for people

anymore. I give them an environment, and they develop it.

Guide users to detect business problems

The biggest problem we had was we have every tool. We own everything you could imagine, and getting

a common look and feel, getting something that kind of guided users to the problems

in the business was key. Tableau helped us clean that up, centralize it, give users kind

of a guided path to go through things.

Easily expand to meet growing needs

It’s one of the most impressive ROI messages I think you can find with any software. And

since we own everything, we have a lot of comparison points of, you know, what's good

ROI or not In about a week, we had about 100 users. Two weeks after that, we were pushing

200, and by the time we got to the end of six weeks, we had 400 users in the tool.

The ease of use with Tableau is easy for me to maintain. So I spend less than an hour

a month maintaining the environment that supports 1400 users. My plan by the end of the year

is to be closer to 2,000 users. I think by the end of next year, we'll be pushing 5,000

users plus. The 1400 is not a blip on the server at this

point. It's the easiest software I maintain, really is.

The beauty of it is it's not that complicated. Their server-side interface is as easy as

their desktop interface.

I have no help desk calls on it. The only call I get is "I want another license."