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Press Release

Tableau and Splunk Announce Strategic Technology Alliance

Jointly developed integration brings together the power of visual analytics and real-time machine data

SAN FRANCISCO AND SEATTLE - March 5, 2014 - Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), provider of the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence, and Tableau Software (NYSE:DATA), a global leader in rapid-fire, easy-to-use business analytics software, today announced a strategic alliance to leverage the power of advanced visual analytics and real-time machine data. As part of a joint technology investment, the latest version of Tableau software includes Splunk® Enterprise as a native data source using Splunk’s recently launched ODBC driver.

“Tableau is the most widely recognized provider of visual analytics software,” said Guido Schroeder, senior vice president of products, Splunk. “Our alliance with Tableau extends the value that Splunk software unlocks in machine data. Using Tableau to visualize structured data with machine data in Splunk will enable people to gain new business insights.”

“Splunk leads the market in enabling organizations to collect, index and make searchable machine data from apps, servers, networks, websites and devices in real time,” said Chris Stolte, chief development officer and co-founder, Tableau Software. “Our integration lets organizations use our visual analytics software on their machine data in Splunk software. Whether it’s to find quick insights or explore machine data, it accelerates new insights for anyone using Tableau and Splunk.”

The direct connection between Splunk and Tableau provides the following benefits:

  • Makes it easier for Tableau users to visualize machine data and find new insights - Users can now leverage Tableau to visualize machine data from Splunk Enterprise, enabling new business insights from a rapidly growing class of data.
  • New source of valuable data now available to more people - People can now access a new source of valuable machine data with Splunk Enterprise. These capabilities are complementary to the real-time and historical visualizations and analytics across large data sets in Splunk Enterprise.
  • Correlate machine data with other structured data- The integration enables users to correlate, analyze and visualize machine data with other structured data for advanced business analytics.

The integration provides direct access to saved searches within Splunk Enterprise 6 from Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server, using Splunk’s new ODBC driver, for further data exploration and visualization. More details about the integration can be found in the following blogs:

Tableau blog: http://www.tableausoftware.com/about/blog/2014/3/tableau-splunk-partnership 
Splunk blog:  http://blogs.splunk.com/2014/01/29/announcing-splunk-odbc-driver/

About Splunk Inc.

Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) provides the leading software platform for real-time Operational Intelligence. Splunk® software and cloud services enable organizations to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine-generated big data coming from websites, applications, servers, networks, sensors and mobile devices. More than 7,000 enterprises, government agencies, universities and service providers in over 90 countries use Splunk software to deepen business and customer understanding, mitigate cybersecurity risk, prevent fraud, improve service performance and reduce cost. Splunk products include Splunk® Enterprise, Splunk Cloud™, Splunk Storm®, Hunk™ Splunk Analytics for Hadoop and premium Splunk Apps. To learn more, please visit http://www.splunk.com/company.

About Tableau

Tableau Software (NYSE: DATA) helps people see and understand data. Tableau helps anyone quickly analyze, visualize and share information. More than 17,000 customer accounts get rapid results with Tableau in the office and on-the-go. And tens of thousands of people use Tableau Public to share data in their blogs and websites. See how Tableau can help you by downloading the free trial at www.tableausoftware.com/trial.

Tableau and Tableau Software are trademarks of Tableau Software, Inc. Splunk, Splunk>, Listen to Your Data, The Engine for Machine Data, Hunk, Splunk Cloud, Splunk Storm and SPL are trademarks and registered trademarks of Splunk Inc. in the United States and other countries.All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.