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Some might call us perfectionists. Here at Tableau, we sweat the small stuff. We’ve always put an emphasis on craftsmanship. We’re always looking for small enhancements to make the product better. That’s because we know that the seemingly-tiny features can often have the greatest impact on the overall product experience.

On top of all that you do, many of you have also taken the time to write thoughtful reviews of your Tableau experience on business software review sites such as Computer World’s IT Central Station, TrustRadius, and G2Crowd.

Want to learn the ins and outs of Tableau? We’ve got you covered with a new book.

Today, Microsoft announced the launch of its latest version of its SQL Server product, SQL Server 2016. Microsoft asked us to run some early performance tests on Tableau and the results were pretty impressive, so we thought we’d share a little more detail with you here.

We are excited to announce that we have acquired Hyper, a breakthrough technology in data processing that we believe can further revolutionize business analytics. Hyper is a high-performance database system. It will be integrated into Tableau’s product offerings and bring a host of new capabilities to Tableau customers.

Ever get tired of just staring at the grey spinner on your screen, waiting for your dashboard to load? We have great news: Tableau 9.3 includes progressive-loading dashboards.

We wanted to share this cool GIF that one of our customers, Josh Byrd of GoPro, recently created. The GIF illustrates how Josh makes sense of the unstructured data that GoPro deals with and lands in Hadoop for analytics.

Presenting information in a visual way is not a novel concept. But best practices—such as the use of the x-axis to display a trend over time, for example—were once novel ideas. Rewind to the 18th century, and a combination of creativity, passion, and teamwork led to the birth of the x-axis.

We live in a time when what a customers says about a business is weighted far greater than what that business says itself. Said another way: Yelp has replaced the restaurant website as the authority on where to eat.