Tableau Software Thursday made its first product announcement since going public in May, wheeling out new cloud-based business intelligence widgetry called Tableau Online, a hosted version of its conventionally distributed Tableau Server.
The company, which trades under the coveted ticker symbol DATA, thinks its new Software-as-a-Service is highly disruptive both technologically and economically since it “drastically” changes both the price point and the delivery scheme usually associated with the kind of complex and sophisticated software it’s peddling. Of course, there’s an increasing number of comers in this space too.