back to article Tableau revenues drop due to weak UK sales, fingers sales bods not Brexit

Life could be better for data-visualisation business Tableau - today it reported weaker-than-expected Q3 revenues and placed the blame at the feet of its under-performing UK team, rather than the Brexit. The company had issued guidance to investors that it would grow revenues to $214m but fell short, bringing in only $206m for …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Alien

    "I'd put it more on ourselves and our own execution."

    Nah, I don't believe that. Its got to be Brexit's fault, or aliens, or the Illuminati.

  2. oxfordmale78

    UK Sales staff should polish up their CV

    If they don't blame Brexit, the massive scapegoat in the porcelaine cupboard, it can only mean they want to get rid of some of their UK sales staff.

  3. Jess

    Re: they want to get rid of some of their UK sales staff.

    That is an interesting idea.

    Blame the staff - easy to get rid of them.

    Blame Brexit, not so easy because it isn't their fault.

    If you are right that could happen a lot.

  4. AMBxx Silver badge
    FAIL

    End of perpetual licence

    Or, blame the change in licence structure. Software companies in the BI space appear to have run out of ideas. Big data is driving the database side of things, but the presentation layers are changing very slowly.

    Hence the switch to monthly fees. Looks like it's just making companies stay on old software instead.

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