Cancer Roadmaps Chooses Tableau Software for Consumer Access to Online, Interactive...

Cancer Roadmaps Chooses Tableau Software for Consumer Access to Online,
Interactive Dashboards for Cancer Patients
Cancer Roadmaps to Launch Personalized Visualizations and Dashboards for
Cancer Patients to Better Understand Symptoms, Treatments, Side Effects and
Outcomes

SEATTLE, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Tableau Software
(http://www.tableausoftware.com), the global leader in data visualization and
rapid-fire business intelligence software
(http://www.tableausoftware.com/business-intelligence-software), today
announced that Cancer Roadmaps has chosen Tableau Software for its cancer
profiling application. Using Tableau, Cancer Roadmaps will provide online,
interactive dashboards that allow customers to explore the experiences of
patients with the same type of cancer.

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"There's a great fear that comes with a diagnosis of cancer and research shows
that over 50% of patients, family or friends seek out information online to
better understand what to expect. But there are no black and white answers
with cancer," said Kathi Evans, President, Cancer Roadmaps. "We needed a tool
that would allow us to convey the many possible paths that cancer can take.
Tableau's interactive dashboards are an elegant solution to allow our
customers to learn about symptoms, treatments, side effects and outcomes
through the experiences of patients already on the journey."

Continued Evans, "As a long- time veteran of the healthcare informatics
industry, I'm used to massive data infrastructures, IT-intensive development
projects and time to market based in years. Using the Tableau suite of
products we were able to develop a product within six months using more
analyst resources than IT resources. It has been a long time since I have been
this enthusiastic about a product. It changes the economics of providing
quality information directly to patients and consumers."

Cancer Roadmaps utilizes Tableau Desktop
(http://www.tableausoftware.com/products/desktop) to analyze cancer experience
data from U.S. oncology practices, the National Cancer Institute and patients
themselves to create cancer-specific profiles. These profiles are
personalized into interactive dashboards and deployed via Tableau Server
(http://www.tableausoftware.com/products/server) to the Cancer Roadmaps
website allowing customers to explore information in a private, convenient,
online setting whenever they need to.

"Providing visualizations and dashboards on as complex an issue as cancer to
patients is an innovative idea - one that requires an application that anyone
can use and understand. Cancer Roadmaps needed a solution that was not only
fast and easy for its staff to deploy but one that would also be fast and easy
for consumers on the web," said Christian Chabot
(http://www.tableausoftware.com/about/leadership#cc), Tableau's CEO and
co-founder.

About Tableau Software
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business intelligence software and one of the 50 fastest growing software
companies in the U.S. Its award-winning applications can be downloaded at
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share interactive data visualizations, business dashboards and analytics, and
can scale to organizations of virtually any size or reach. Information
regarding Tableau's popular data visualization conference July 20-23 is
available at http://conference.tableausoftware.com.

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