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March 31, 2015

Saama and Tableau Team Up

CAMPBELL, Calif., March 31 — Saama Technologies, Inc., the leading pure-play Data and Analytics solution provider, has partnered with Tableau, a global leader in rapid-fire, easy-to-use business analytics software, to provide advanced analytics outcomes for insurance, high-tech, CPG, life sciences and healthcare customers. This combined offering will help companies quickly uncover and operationalize strategic data assets, and deploy pre-integrated analytics solutions across their companies.

Saama will focus on the team-selling, implementation and deployment of Tableau together with the overall solution build. Saama’s experienced consultants provide solutions to the Global 2000 helping customers make the most of existing IT assets, while also including data from new, external data sources. Based on a library of more than 3000 algorithms and a team of data scientists, advanced data modeling is an important capability to truly drive competitive advantage based on data. With pre-integration of solution components, and a large set of ready connectors to just about any platform, application or cloud resource, Saama provides its patented Fluid Analytics Engine to deliver solutions in a matter of weeks.

“Saama shares our mission to help people see and understand their data,” says Scott Jones, Senior Vice President, Americas Sales, Tableau Software. “By targeting key vertical customers, Saama can help our joint customers in key industries support advanced analytics, and make data driven decision-making a part of everyday business.”

“Tableau is the clear leader in self-service analytics discovery and visualization – just shown again in the recent Gartner assessment,” adds Chris LaBruna, Chief Revenue Officer for Saama. “When you combine industry leading technology from Tableau and Saama, and add deep industry know-how and the expertise of having delivered thousands of data and analytics projects, we can help customers stay focused on their core business while driving the monetization of their data as a strategic asset.”

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