Tableau - Overview

Tableau has many desirable and unique features that set it apart from other data visualization tools. You can answer important questions instantly with its powerful data discovery and exploration application. Tableau's drag-and-drop interface lets you easily visualize any data, explore different views, and even combine multiple databases. No scripts are required. A visualization of the relevant data can be used by anyone who understands the business problem. When analysis is complete, sharing with others is as easy as publishing to Tableau Server.

Tableau Features

Tableau offers solutions for all kinds of industries, departments, and data environments. The following are some unique features that make Tableau capable of handling a variety of situations.

• Speed of Analysis − Since it does not require high level programming expertise, any user who has access to data can begin using it to derive value from it.
• It doesn't require a complex software setup as Tableau is self-reliant. The desktop version commonly used by users is easily installed and contains all the features needed to start and complete data analysis.
• Visual Discovery − The data is explored and analyzed using visual tools like colors, trend lines, charts, and graphs. Most of the work is done via drag and drop, so there are very few scripts to write.
• Tableau allows you to blend different data sources in real-time, so you can combine raw, semi-structured, and relational data without incurring integration fees. Users do not need to know how data is stored.
• Architecture Agnostic − Tableau works in all kinds of devices where data flows. Hence, the user need not worry about specific hardware or software requirements to use Tableau.
• Tableau's real-time collaboration feature lets users filter, sort, and discuss data in real time, and it can embed a live dashboard in portals such as Salesforce or SharePoint sites. You can save your view of data and allow colleagues to subscribe to your interactive dashboards to see the very latest data by simply refreshing their web browsers.
• Managing all of an organization's published data sources is easier with Tableau server. Manage schedules, delete, change permissions, and add tags all in one convenient location. The data server makes it easy to schedule extract refreshes. Server administrators can centrally define a schedule for extracts for both incremental and full refreshes