Tableau is not pitched as a direct replacement for Excel: it is more expensive and its licensing model is not designed to put a copy of the software on the desktop of every employee.

This functionality was previously achieved with a Tableau add-in for Excel. Selections now support use of regular expressions.

Tableau Software Inc. today launched a new version of its data visualization platform that expands what companies can do with their analytics dashboards. The biggest enhancement in the update is ...