What is Tableau?
Tableau is a visual analytics platform or Tool, which use to transforming the data to solve problems and presentation of data in visual way, to get the insight of data to empowering people and organizations to make the most of their data.
It can help Organization to be a data driven:
Tableau organization has mission to help people and understand their organization data, which is why this products are designed to put the user for organization people whether they’re an analyst, data scientist, student, teacher, executive, or business users. From connection through collaboration, It is the most powerful, secure, and flexible end-to-end analytics platform.
History:
Tableau was founded in 2003 as a result of a computer science project at Stanford that aimed to improve the analysis and make data more accessible to people through visualization. Co-founders Chris Stolte, Pat Hanrahan, and Christian Chabot developed and patented Tableau’s foundational technology.
Idea was to visually expresses data by translating drag and drop actions into data queries through an interactive interface.
It was acquired by Salesforce in 2019. Today, organizations everywhere, from global enterprises, across all industries and departments are empowering their people with Tableau to drive change with data.
Why Tableau:
As the modern business intelligence market, the platform is known for taking any kind of data from almost any system, and turning it into actionable insights with speed and ease. It’s as simple as dragging and dropping.
- It is the trusted leader in analytics
- Customer-focused innovation
- Data culture that drives change
- The most intuitive user experience
- Powerful analytics for everyone
- People learn faster
- Flexibility and choice
- Governance and security
- Integration and extensibility
These all advantage of Tableau make it different from others analytical tools. It is most demanding Platform among organization because of its visualization capabilities. where user can make complex visualization based on drag drop functionalities and also use of complex mathematical operation in calculated fields.
Features of Tableau:
Tableau doesn’t require any kind of technical skill or programming language. you can easily learn it by drag and drop functionality. different sector such as business, researchers, different industries, etc. use this tools for their data analysis.
Its also provides below functionalities
- Data Blending
- Real time analysis
- Collaboration of data
- Connectivity with different database
- Live connection and extract connection
Product Suite
It provides number of suite which helps Tableau software more unique and user friendly:
Tableau Desktop
It has a great features and feasibility to design visualization based on drag drop, coding and customize reports. Creating the charts (like bar chart, Donut chart), reports, and tabular view reports to blending them all together to form a dashboard, all the necessary work is created in Tableau Desktop.
Tableau provides the live data analysis, It provides connectivity to Data Warehouse, as well as various types of database like SQL server, Google analytics, Salesforces etc.
It also classified into two categories:
Personal Desktop: Personal version keeps the workbook private, and the access is limited. The workbooks cannot be published online. Therefore, it should be distributed either Offline or in Tableau Public.
Professional Desktop: The main difference is that Tableau Desktop can be published online or in Tableau Server. Also, in Professional version, there is full access to all sorts of the datatype. It is best suitable for those who wish to publish their work in Tableau Server.
Tableau Public
It means that the workbooks created can not be saved locally, it should be saved to the Tableau’s public cloud which can be viewed and accessed by anyone.
Saving file of cloud have no privacy, anyone can download and access the tableau file. Tableau public is the best for individuals, who want to learn Tableau.
Tableau Server
To share dashboards and visualization reports with other user then you need the Tableau Server. You must first design your dashboard in the Tableau Desktop and then after that you can published on the tableau server, it will be accessible to the licensed users only.
Its require the login credentials to check reports via a web browser. Tableau server is more effective sharing of data in an organization.
Tableau Online
It is an online sharing tool for dashboard. Its is similar to Tableau Server, but the data is stored on servers hosted in the cloud which are maintained by the Tableau group.
There is no storage limit on the data that can be published in the Online. To publish, both Tableau Online and Server require the workbooks created by Tableau Desktop.
Tableau Reader
It is a free tool provided by tableau organization, which allows you to view the workbooks and visualizations created using Tableau Desktop. The data can be filtered but editing and modifications are restricted. Anyone who gets the workbook can view it using Tableau Reader So the security level is zero.