 I work at Cisco as a solution architect and I've been there for almost 10 years. I've been playing several roles and recently I've started working on Tableau a year ago and I really fell in love with it and I was so excited to come here and share my story and how I actually fell in love so that's where I'm here. Well you're hearing, we're hearing a theme, consistent theme with customers being in love, you saw the keynotes I presume, right? So during the keynotes folks, people were, every time that they had all the developers on stage, let me just describe it briefly, and then they would each take turns getting up discussing some of the new features that they were introducing and they never seen anything like it before. Normally in situations like that you might get a golf clap. You know what I mean by that, right? It's John Furrier's term. But the fans were hooting and hollering, I call them fans, they were hooting and hollering and cheering and woo-hoo. I was one of them. And you can see, clearly, so what are all those buttons that you have on there? So these are all like badges here with different rotations about how we love data, how much we love data and how much we love Tableau. It's a symbol of that love, you can see here, and I prefer to wear this all five days. Actually a year ago, all this started a year ago when I was just, I see what would be the BI tool that will actually expand my horizons and help my business do whatever they want, empower business without actually going behind IT people or any support teams to get their visualizations done, but rather have empower themselves and do self-service to get what they need. So I was searching for one such tool and I came across Tableau and I started personally using it at home actually, even before I started with Cisco, and one day I was actually watching Netflix and I was trying to find a movie and I searched, searched, and I gave up because I couldn't find it. And then I thought about an interesting idea of why I can't use Tableau to even find things like that. And it came out like I searched on Google for an OData URL for Netflix and luckily I found two of them and Netflix has given away publicly the URLs, OData URLs, and I took one of them and tweaked it a little bit to add my language, my foreign language, I speak Hindi, so I just modified the URL to say language equals Hindi and I used the OData connector within Tableau and that's it, boom, I go get all the movies from 1940s to 2013 and I was able to build a dashboard with Wildcard Search and now I can type like three letters of the movie and I can get the movie, boom, and that actually made my wife so happy, I can't tell you. You know Tableau is a great tool for rapid prototyping, you want to create something in quick time, you can just right away create a visualization or dashboard for your executive and show them the data, how it looks, right? But when comes to enterprise deployment, like you want to enable this for large groups across the organization, then Tableau is actually scalable, actually to a certain extent if you can, you know, horizontally scale your architecture and have your infrastructure set up that way, you can really scale, but I think they have a lot of potential to grow as an enterprise BI tool and compared to other enterprise tools in the market and I think we are definitely going to wait for the Linux version, I hope very soon we'll have the Linux version of it and we are very excited to have the Mac version coming in very soon, there was an announcement and the keynote presentation as well, we are really excited about that. So as an Excel user, you know, I really like Excel even today, even though I love Tableau so much, but I still use Excel a little bit, but as an individual user you can always use Excel, but when it comes to collaboration, you want to collaborate and you want to share this information across the organization, Excel doesn't scale and even the amount of data set I want to handle, there's a limitation in Excel, even though, you know, there are several ways you can actually handle the data in multiple sheets and all that, but you know, you're still going to be a silo user if you're using Excel, but when it comes to collaboration and you want to share this across your company, then Tableau is the way to go. Well, the other thing too is in Excel, you're building models, you can forecast out, you can play with the data, right? I mean, that's the other big difference, it's the manipulation capability, right? So do you see them as complementary, right? I see them as complementary, but you know, when it comes to visualization, the rendering part, like how you render in Tableau, you cannot get the same visualization, advanced visualization capabilities in Excel. There are some few charts available, but you know, the interaction what you can get in Tableau is hard to get it in Excel. It's very hard in Excel. There are some geeks in Excel who can do that, but it takes a lot of time and effort to do it, but you want to make it easy to use for the business users, then Tableau is a lot of the things about that I saw in Tableau today, it's it's auto-didactic, it's fixing at the columns, it's putting capitals in, people love that, right? I would love that too, right? So it's learning, it's self-learning, which was very impressive, but so now how about online version? Is that something that you use or looking at? Oh, Tableau online would solve a lot of problems because so far Tableau public is good, but it's a public cloud, right? So there is some security concerns on that using Tableau public because everybody can actually download your visualization and they can actually look at your data. But Tableau online would give that extra security layer, right? It's more of a private cloud, so you can actually safely publish your workbooks and you can share with your external customers and partners, and you don't have to really manage the server anymore because Tableau is going to take care of that. So that way, you know, you get flexibility to build your dashboards for internal purposes as well as for your external customers. Can you talk a little bit about the human element? That is, you know, getting adoption inside your organization of, you know, not just Tableau, but any kind of data analytics visualization technology, how do you spur that kind of adoption and get people to talk about or understand how they can really get more value out of their data? I think any tool to be successful, I think that I would imagine according to me, I feel like you have to keep it simple. When you keep it simple, business understands very well. When it's too complicated to understand like, oh, you have to build a dashboard, then it takes three months or six months or nine months to build it. That's when you lose the game, right? So when you keep it simple and easy for the business, that's when you succeed. And that's what Tableau did. Yeah, exactly. It's kind of one of the reasons for being so. All right, Sudarshan, thanks very much for coming on the Cube and sharing your personal story and your data story. Congratulations and good luck with your talk. That's 11 o'clock on Wednesday. Check it out. This is the Cube. We're coming right back with Ray Wang, one of the sharpest analysts in the business. He's the CEO, actually former CEO. He's the founder and now principal and principal analyst at Constellation Research, growing company. 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