Cost-cutting data strategies

Mike spent four years as a software developer supporting financial & management systems before moving into a number of different IT management roles. In 2001, he moved into his first “data analytics” role and luckily discovered Tableau Desktop in 2007. This discovery changed his career. Mike joined Tableau as the first IT Finance Manager in late 2011 and in 2015, he took on a new role as the Senior Manager of Analytics to enable everyone at Tableau to use Tableau. In 2016, he moved back into Finance to lead Finance Analytics. Now he is the Director of the Finance Data Office at Salesforce driving Data Strategy, Governance and Analytics across the entire Finance organization (which includes Tableau). He’s excited to share how anyone, but specifically finance professionals, can use Tableau to see and understand their own data.

Jennie is the Senior Global Travel Manager at Tableau, responsible for travel operations in 10 countries. She is a vocal advocate for Tableau travelers, always searching to improve the traveler experience by examining policies, leveraging new technologies, and advocating for Online Booking Tool enhancements – all while keeping costs in check and looking for savings opportunities. In her five years with Tableau, she has learned the product despite not having an analytics background and worked with internal experts to build T&E data sources and dashboards as well as advocating with third parties to improve data exchange capabilities.

Monica and her team are responsible for processing spend orders for all of our offices around the world. Monica has been a procurement professional in the Seattle area for more than twenty years, working with various organizations to implement and improve various big name Procure-to-Pay tools and processes. However, it wasn’t until 2011 when she first learned about Tableau from a coworker using a single license that Monica realized the incredible possibilities of using Tableau for greater insight into spend management. Monica joined the Tableau team in 2012 to build their procurement department from the ground up and is always excited to collaborate with peers from other industries to demonstrate the value of using Tableau in their daily operations.