Just last week I wrote a blog entry about In-memory Business Intelligence tools in Couldn't you all just Remember it? The Rise of In-memory Business Intelligence.
This week I came to know about Tableau Software's new release of their BI solution, V6.0.
They have some pretty neat features that make end-user driven Business Intelligence a very real thing! You can get an idea of what these new features are by looking at:
On the way to the forum, they seem to have had some fun with the name Release 6.0. They called it the Joy of 6 in their tweets #joyof6 and that took a life of its own - marketing and viral PR wise! People had all kinds of fun with it with related puns:
- I feel like a kid on Christmas eve waiting on Christmas morning, but instead it's the eve of the release of Tableau 6
- I am basking in the joy of 6! The thing I like most about it? It makes me want to share the love!
- Heading home! Feeling 6y! I hope the wife doesn't mind me spending time with someone new....
- I finally figured out the joy of 6 today. Turns out, I was doing it all wrong. It's all about having good visualizations.
- The joy of 6 is awesome. At my age, I thought I'd need a pill or something.
- I'm a total 6 addict..
- Tableau 6: Finally we can make this relationship public
- If you need to play with your data then Tableau 6 is the best. Not just for number crunchers!
- It's 6am, having my first real 6 experience. Feel Empowered to analyse! Worth the wait
- Wow. Data collection and prep is a big part of any analy project, and Tableau helps, even with data quality testing
On a more serious note, Tableau 6 seems to have done something special with the different kinds of memory present in a system - The fastest one among them, Cache memory right next to the processor, Main Memory and then the slowest of them all - the Hard Disk memory.
Matt Eldridge, Architect of Tableau 6 talks about how they have implemented their In-Memory data engine in two podcasts - Here in Podcast#1 and here in Podcast#2.
Very interesting approaches given that compared to twenty years ago, any new architecture of a BI solution take full advantage of current architectures, 32-bit and 64-bit! And they seem to do it rather seamlessly also.
Exciting news for supporters of DIY BI (Do It Yourself BI) like me!
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself - Napoleon Bonaparte. 
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