Products of Tableau

In this article, we discuss the tableau products like prep, desktop, server, online and public that are used for different business purposes.

Introduction

Tableau offers different products based on the business needs and the nature of functionalities offered. 

Tableau tools support a full cycle of self-service analytics from prep to analysis to sharing, with governance and data management at every step of the way.

In this article, we will discuss the different products of Tableau.

Table of Content

Products of Tableau

• Prep
• Desktop
• Server and Online
• Public
• Reader

Tableau Prep

Tableau prep provides a visual and direct way to combine, shape, and clean data as well as automate data prep flows helping to get the analysis and insight faster.

It comprises of the two products:

• Builder
  • Gives the freedom to re-order steps and experiment without consequence
  • Employs fuzzy clustering to turn repetitive tasks, like grouping by pronunciation, into one-click operations.
  • It intelligently pushes operations down to the database when possible, letting you take advantage of existing database investments for fast flow execution performance.

• Conductor
  • Can easily publish and run flows in your server environment.
  • Automate your data prep processes so there’s always fresh data that’s prepped and ready for analysis.
  • Monitor flows across the servers

Tableau Desktop

Tableau desktop offers unlimited data exploration through an intuitive interface, encouraging curiosity, creativity, and data-driven decision-making.

• Live visual analytics fuel unlimited data exploration.
• Connect to data on-prem or in the cloud 
• Access and combine disparate data without writing code.
• Quickly build powerful calculations from existing data, drag and drop reference lines and forecasts, and review statistical summaries.
• Create interactive maps automatically.
• Use custom geocodes and territories for personalized regions, like sales areas.

Tableau Server and Tableau Online

Tableau Server

• Connect to any data source securely – whether on-premises or in the cloud.
• Publish and share your data sources as live connections or encrypted extracts for everyone to use.
• Centrally manage all of your metadata and security rules.
• Maintain the security of your database with pass-through data connection permissions and row-level filtering.
• Keep users and content secure with multi-tenancy options and fine-grained permissions control.
• Gives the flexibility to integrate into existing data infrastructure.

Tableau Online

• Analytics platform fully hosted in the cloud.
• Skip the setup time  and hardware cost
• Connect to cloud databases like Amazon Redshift and Google Big Query. 
• Automatically refresh data from web apps like Google Analytics and Salesforce.

Tableau Public

• It is a free platform to explore, create and publicly share data visualizations online. 
• Created workbook can’t be saved locally.
• It has the largest repository of data visualizations in the world to learn from, and makes developing data skills easy. 
• Built for cost-effective users.

Tableau Reader

• Free tool which allows viewing the visualization and workbooks created using Desktop/Public.
• The data can be filtered, but modifications and editing are restricted.
• Can’t automate data refreshers
• No security features on packaged workbooks

Conclusion

In this article, we discuss the tableau products like prep, desktop, server, online and public that are used for different business purposes.

Hope this article will help you in your data analyst journey.

This article is a part of a complete tutorial of Tableau, focusing on Tableau certified data analysts and tableau desktop specialists.

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