[mmaunder]

Agreed re Tableau being a competitor. But I'm not surprised they're not a partner. Last quote we got from Tableau for desktop was $2k. This comes in at around $200/year. That is probably where the "1/10th of the cost of traditional BI solutions" comes from at the top of the home page.

[7952]

Tableau are pushing their web system over their desktop tools. It is perfectly possible to use the free reader to consume data without needing hundreds of licences for a cloud product or the full edition.

[chenster]

It's possible, but last time when I used, it's pretty limited. You would need to manually feed local data and re-sync it when it changes. Nothing something you want to do a lot.