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Tableau plus HyPer: “Something up their sleeve”

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Yet a third reaction has come to Tableau’s announcement that it has acquired HyPer, the German “high performance database system.”

“It seems sort of muddled,” wrote Dave Wells in email to me yesterday. He’s a longtime Tableau observer, a 40-year IT veteran, and now a consultant and educator at Infocentric. For six years, he was the TDWI education director.

“I’m not really clear what’s going on,” he wrote in email to me, “but it is reasonable to believe that Tableau has something up their sleeve and may be trying to bring a game changer to the market and get back the dominant position that seems to have slipped a bit.”… Read the rest “Tableau plus HyPer: “Something up their sleeve””

What’s Tableau doing in Munich?

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What’s Tableau doing buying HyPer, the German OLTP/OLAP hybrid? The March 10 announcement brought a flurry of email — and the Doodler notices news about a company he’s watched since it was a mere puppy that tipped over an industry. Now as it eases into midlife, flush with cash and renown, it does what comes with that age: It buys stuff.

Innovative, high performance database system

The newly acquired technology is, according to the Tableau announcement, an “innovative, high performance database system.” Like the Stanford University-developed Tableau, this database was also developed at a university, the Technical University of Munich. There, Tableau will add “key technical personnel” and establish a research and development center for high performance computing.

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