What is Tableau Desktop?

1. Fast analytical and rapid fire business intelligence.

2. Is

a data visualization application that lets you analyze virtually any type of structured data and produce highly
interactive, beautiful graphs, dashboards, and reports.

3. After

a quick installation, you can connect to virtually any data source from spreadsheets to data warehouses and
display information in multiple graphic perspectives.

4. Designed to be easy to use, youll be working faster than ever before.

5. Tableau Server is a business intelligence solution that provides browser-based visual analytics anyone can use at just a
fraction of the cost of typical BI software.

6. With just a few clicks, you can publish or embed live, interactive graphs, dashboards and reports with current data
automatically customized to the needs of everyone across your organization.

7. It deploys in minutes and users can produce thousands of reports without the need of IT services all within your IT
infrastructure.

8. Tableau Reader is a free viewing application that lets anyone read and interact with packaged workbooks created by
Tableau Desktop.

9. The company is one of the 50 fastest growing software companies in the U.S.
10.

Customers include companies as diverse as Google, Cleveland Clinic, GM, Microsoft, Wells Fargo, the District of
Columbia, Allstate, Cornell and Harvard.

What can I do with Tableau Desktop

The various ways that Tableau can help you get more from your data are discussed in more detail below.
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Visually Analyze Data Rapidly

Build Interactive Dashboards
Share and Interact

Visually Analyze Data Rapidly

See and Understand

1. People need effective views of data to understand results, discover relationships, find patterns, locate outliers,
uncover structure, and summarize findings.

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2. how well can you see what is going on in your business?

3. Tableau lets you ask rapid questions of your data by letting you iteratively create and modify live, interactive
charts, reports and dashboards in minutes.
4. These views are fundamentally more useful for analysis than those provided by pre-canned reports and traditional
dashboards.
5. Tableau gives you interactive visual tables, picture-perfect data displays, side-by-side comparisons, and graphic
encodings using color, size and shape.
6. Without any programming or training, users can see and understand data like theyve never been able to before.

Browse and Explore

1. Tableau is the worlds leading exploratory browser for databases.
2. A key step in the analysis process is the ability to start with big picture summaries of data and then quickly
focus on detailed areas of interest.
3. To conduct effective analysis, it is crucial for people to quickly change what data they are viewing and how it is
being viewed.
4. Tableaus flexible interface enables this free form exploration.
5. Exploratory analysis is further supported with unlimited undo and redo, allowing people to surf their databases
much like they surf the web.

Build Interactive Dashboards:

Build Dashboards People Can Understand
1. Use Tableau to build dashboards that communicate clearly and directly.
2. Each element of a dashboard presents information in the most effective way possible, based on the latest
research in human perception.
3. Tableau provides the display type that best expresses the databar and line charts, maps, tables, scatter plots,
and more.
4. Tableau helps you build dashboards that inform and impress.

Monitor and Measure

1. Use Tableau to build analytical dashboards that compare information and track performance against goals. These
dashboards can be based on multiple data sources.
2. They are fully interactive, allowing you to drill into and explore information directly from the dashboard.
3. You can also apply common filters to all the worksheets, allowing you to change the filter and watch an array of
visual displays update simultaneously.

Interact and Drill-down

1. Sometimes you need to answer additional questions within a dashboard.
2. With Tableau, viewers can dynamically filter, highlight, drill-down and link across multiple views in one
dashboard.
3. This essentially creates an interactive visual analysis application on the fly.

Share and Interact:

Publish and Embed
1. Share your graphs, reports, and dashboards by publishing them with Tableau Server.
2. Anyone with proper data credentials can view and interact with those visualizations using just a browser.

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TABLEAU VERSIONS: 7.0 / 8.0 / 8.1 / 8.2 / 8.3/9.0/9.1

TABLEAU SOFTWARE EDITIONS:
1. Tableau Desktop Is a Developer software to create Reporting, Interactive Visualizations, Management Dashboards and
Scorecards with advanced filtering techniques.
2. Tableau Public - Is a Learning Edition available freeware in the web
3. Tableau Online Is a web application software to public
4. Tableau Reader An application downloaded to view Tableau Dashboards using a link.

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