Tableau

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What is Tableau?

Tableau is built on the work of scientific research to make analysis faster, easier, and more intuitive. Analysing data in a quick, iterative and visual way provides immediate feedback.

Intuitive User Experience: Tableau is designed to put the user first because data analysis should be about asking questions and not about learning software. With built-in visual best practices, Tableau enables limitless visual data exploration without interrupting the flow of analysis.

Powerful: Tableau meets the needs of all of your users, regardless of their skill set. Augmented analytics innovations help anyone uncover insights faster, with accessible machine learning, statistics, natural language, and smart data prep.

Tableau in the Gartner Magic Quadrant

Gartner had this to say in their annual Magic Quadrant for BI Analytics:

"Tableau, a Salesforce company, is a Leader in this Magic Quadrant. Its products are mainly focused on visual-based exploration that enables business users to access, prepare, analyze and present findings in their data. Tableau has global operations and serves clients of all sizes.
In 2023, Tableau introduced Tableau Pulse, an augmented analytics experience designed for business users in day-to-day workflows. Pulse is built on a new metrics layer that improves governance and trust. Tableau has enhanced its embedded analytics capabilities by including an embedded playground that automatically generates code snippets to interact with Tableau “vizzes.” It also has introduced usage-based pricing to scale embedded analytics for use cases with high numbers of users who interact with analytics infrequently."

Strengths:

From monolithic to composable analytics: Tableau is improving both its technology and commercial flexibility. It has reengineered its architecture to become more composable for agility, including the newly released VizQL data service for developers, a new Tableau Pulse metrics layer on top of data sources for generative analytics experience, and a new consumption-based pricing model in its Embedded Analytics offering. This progressive vision toward composability will allow users to extract insights from Tableau more easily.
Dedicated leadership: Despite being acquired by Salesforce, Tableau now operates under its own dedicated leadership team, inclusive of a CEO, CPO and CMO. This structure underscores Tableau’s strategic significance within the Salesforce portfolio and reaffirms the commitment to its D&A business.
Strong corporate viability: Tableau reported a robust 16% growth rate in FY23, outperforming many vendors in this Gartner Magic Quadrant, some of which reported business contraction.

Assessing whether Tableau is right for your analytics & reporting requirements
Getting started with Tableau
Tableau Training & Mentoring
Understanding Tableau licenses: Creators, Explorers & Viewers
Support developing reports in Tableau

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