Tableau Overview

Tableau is a Business Intelligence tool for visually analyzing the data, anyone can connect to data create the graph and also can visualize data can also create charts according to the requirement. 

Tableau is suited to all Small, Medium and large-scale companies. It’s easy to use and can be installed in windows to slice and dice of data connectivity, Google analytics, and dispersed data source.

Editions of Tableau: This has five important features

1.      Tableau Desktop – This has an attractive drag and drop desktop which lets the users to quickly analyze, sort and visualize data.
2.      Tableau Server – This server communicates the visualizations to any device like a desktop or mobile that supports a web browser. The architecture of Tableau server is measurable.
3.      Tableau Online – Tableau online features lets users share the dashboards with the partners as well as the customers
4.      Tableau Reader – This feature lets the user share the data visualization created using this software
5.      Tableau Public – It is the website enhancement feature which lets the visualization to narrate the story.

new features of Tableau

1.      Statistical data files – This already supports more data sources and the new version of it supports statistical files.
2.      Data preparation – The new version of this has more data preparation features which help the users to clean the data and spend more time on analysis.
3.      Ad Hoc Calculations – The new version of this allows the users to perform a lot of calculations on an Ad Hoc basis. Tableau gives you answers on the flow which will let you experiment new things
4.      Query Performance Improvement – In the new version of Tableau the in-memory analytic database is made to work even faster than before. It is designed to make the most use of the user’s hardware.
5.       A new technology called Query Fusion is added which will search for all the queries and look out for ways to simplify them
6.      Smart Maps – Selection controls, Location search capability are all the new features introduced in the new version
7.      Admin Views – Admin views is one more special feature added to the new version which lets the administrators monitor and analyzes data easily. It also lets them to detect bugs, plan upgrades and track the activities.

No.	Basis of Distinction	Tableau
1	Otherwise Known as	Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server
2	Few Customers	Accenture, Coco-Cola, Bank of America, PayPal, Google, Skype, Citigroup, Dell, Walmart, The New York Times, US Army and Airforce
3	ETL development	This does not support ETL development
4	Functionality support	Tableau is drag and drop tool and if any functionality is not working your work gets stopped there
5	Size of Business	This is best suited for small and medium scale industries
6	Installation	This can be installed with ease like your MS Office. It is also easy to manage
7	Forms of analysis	Whereas Tableau does not support different type of analysis like text analysis, predictive analysis, what if analysis and others
8	Capability	This comes with all the inbuilt capabilities for the business users. Therefore no extras to be added.
9	Visualization	Tableau has packet bubble visualization
10	Colour differentiation	In Tableau output different sectors can be differentiated using different colours
11	Underlying data	In Tableau desktop the underlying data can be easily viewed
12	Dashboard	Tableau dashboard can tell a story
13	Important features	Actions, Story dashboard, Parameters, Maps
14	Pros	Slicing and dicing of data, Connectivity to Google Analytics and dispersed data sources
15	Recommended improvements	Release of new features is always in the next version which takes much time
16	Usability	This is very simple and easy to learn. It is a drag and drop tool and so users can easily learn it.
17	Performance	It performs very well. But the only thing is that the data should be organized properly in order to get the maximum performance out of it
18	Initial Setup	This is easy to install and set up
19	Google Analytics Connector	Tableau connects easily with Visual Google Analytics

Author: Aliya Khanum