{"id":8010,"date":"2017-08-09T14:38:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T14:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/tableau-acquires-cleargraph-a-startup-that-lets-you-analyze-your-data-using-natural-language.html"},"modified":"2017-08-09T14:38:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T14:38:49","slug":"tableau-acquires-cleargraph-a-startup-that-lets-you-analyze-your-data-using-natural-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/tableau-acquires-cleargraph-a-startup-that-lets-you-analyze-your-data-using-natural-language.html","title":{"rendered":"Tableau acquires ClearGraph, a startup that lets you analyze your data using natural language"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Business intelligence and analytics firm Tableau<\/a> today announced that it has acquired ClearGraph<\/a>, a service that lets you query and visualize large amounts of business date through natural language queries (think \u201cthis week\u2019s transactions over $500\u201d). Tableau expects to integrate this technology with its own products as it looks to make it easier for its users to use similar queries to visualize their data.<\/p>\n

Tableau acquires ClearGraph, a startup that lets you analyze your data using natural language<\/p>\n

Typically, you\u2019d have to know SQL or a similar database query language to pull information out of most enterprise databases. Recent advances in natural language processing and machine learning now allow services like ClearGraph to understand more about the underlying database and then take these sentences and essentially translate them into database queries. Given that Microsoft\u2019s Power BI and other competitors already offer this capability, it\u2019s no surprise that Tableau is also looking into this (though Tableau argues that \u2014 unlike the likes of Microsoft \u2014 it can be a neutral party given that it has no investment in any particular cloud or on-premise technology outside of its own).<\/p>\n

Indeed, Tableau\u2019s Chief Product Officer Francois Ajenstat tells me that the company actually started an internal project to build a conversational interface for its service. To build this, though, Tableau would have had to put a lot of infrastructure in place and ClearGraph had already done all of this work.<\/p>\n

ClearGraph was founded in 2014 (and it was previously\u00a0called Argo<\/a>\u00a0and Arktos) and the company says that it currently has \u201cdozens\u201d of customers, including a number of large enterprises. While the company doesn\u2019t disclose who its customers are (which is not unusual in the enterprise space), Ajenstat tells me that they include financial institutions, retailers and major internet companies. As Ajenstat noted, every company today struggles to make its data accessible to more of its employees, so it doesn\u2019t come as a surprise that ClearGraph\u2019s customers span a wide range of verticals.<\/p>\n

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Existing ClearGraph customers won\u2019t notice any immediate changes, but over time, once it has integrated this new technology, Tableau will likely transition them to its own platform.<\/p>\n

Ajenstat also believes that this new technology will help his company to reach a wider range of users. \u201cEven though Tableau is top in its class for ease of use, it\u2019s about expanding the number of users who can analyze data in the enterprise,\u201d he told me. He also noted that while this next group of potential users may be casual users, their questions aren\u2019t simple \u2014 and that\u2019s where Tableau thinks ClearGraph\u2019s natural language processing technology will help it succeed.<\/p>\n

The ClearGraph team will join Tableau\u2019s Palo Alto office and focus on integrating its technology with Tableau\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The company declined to disclose the purchase price, but ClearGraph has raised a total of $1.53 million from Accel Partners before the acquisition.<\/p>\n

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