Tableau Conference on Tour: Tokyo rallies more than 700 Data Enthusiasts


Tableau customers showcase the data impact to their businesses and community-at-large at Tableau’s largest Asia Pacific event

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Tokyo, Japan, 18 April 2017 - Tableau Software (NYSE: DATA), the global leader in visual analytics will hold its largest Asia Pacific event of the year with the sold-out Tableau Conference on Tour (TCOT): Tokyo April 17-19 at The Westin Tokyo. More than 700 passionate data enthusiasts will gather to showcase data analytics success stories and the tangible benefits it brings to the global community.

TCOT Tokyo features more than 50 sessions, including inspiring keynotes, customer sessions, hands-on training labs, “Tableau Doctor” appointments, user group activities and industry meet ups. Some of the world’s leading companies including Visa, Pfizer, PATH as well as Japan customers and brands; Western Digital HGST Japan, NTT Data, MTI, Kaho Musen Holdings, CyberAgent, Cyber Communications, Shiseido, Toridoll Holdings, Panasonic Solution Technologies, Parco, BizReach and Yahoo! Japan will share their success stories and data analytics wins.

Tableau’s Chief Marketing Officer, Elissa Fink, will deliver the opening keynote to present the impact Tableau has on organizations worldwide and its key role in the organizational transformation to a data-driven culture. Tableau’s Chief Product Officer, Francois Ajenstat, will present Tableau’s product roadmap, including innovations mapped for the next three years.

“We have extremely passionate customers who are able to inspire other organizations by sharing their Tableau journeys,” said Shun Hamada, President of Tableau Japan. “We are thrilled to share our product roadmap with Tableau Conference on Tour: Tokyo attendees. The upcoming innovations will enable more Japanese customers, partners and the community-at-large to see and understand data”, says Shun Hamada, President of Tableau Japan.

Thanks to continued product innovation and relentless focus, Tableau has achieved continuous growth in Asia Pacific. In 2016, 3,500 new customers chose Tableau in Asia Pacific, which was one of the highest annual additions in Tableau’s history. Currently, Tableau has more than 54,000 clients globally, including more than 9,600 in Asia Pacific.

Japan continues to be a key market for Tableau and has grown its team to more than 60 people supporting Japan today; and counts some of Japan’s leading local companies among its customers, such as Dentsu, Rakuten and many more.

For more information about the Tableau Conference on Tour: Tokyo conference, please see http://ontour.tableau.com/ja-jp/tokyo.

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