Tableau provides self-service business intelligence software that allows users to easily connect to various data sources, perform analysis and visualization, and share insights. Their flagship products include Tableau Desktop for analysis and dashboard creation, Tableau Server for publishing to the web, and Tableau Reader for viewing reports. Tableau uses an in-memory data engine for fast query performance on large datasets and supports a variety of visualizations and charts that can be customized using their "Show Me" feature.

1. All rights reserved. © 2008 Tableau Software Inc.

2. Introduction
+ Tableau Software provides software applications for fast
analytical and rapid fire business intelligence.
+ Tableau builds great products which allow you to see and
understand your data.
+ It is more than a mechanism for turning your data into
information – it is a process of bringing your data to life:
allowing you to see and understand your data

3. Tableau Products
Tableau Desktop Tableau Server Tableau Reader
+ explore, visualize, and + web-based business + Tableau reader is a free
analyze data intelligence platform viewing application that lets
+ answer any question + rapid-fire analytics and you read and interact with
+ blazing speed against dashboarding packaged workbooks
massive data + secure information and created by Tableau desktop.
+ create dashboards to metadata management + on-the-fly web applications
consolidate views + integration with portals with no programming
+ share interactive data and applications + tell stories, create
experiences + enterprise collaboration conversations
+ scales to millions of users
+ Tableau Public - companion
free product

4. How does Tableau works
Tableau is based on three simple concepts.
+ Connect: Connect Tableau to any data source that you want
to analyze.
+ Analyze: Analyze your data the way you want, I mean filter it,
sort it, perform aggregation on it, Summarize it and so on.
+ Share: You can share results with others either by sharing
workbooks with other Tableau users, by pasting results into
applications such as Microsoft Office, printing to PDF or by
using Tableau Server to publish or embed your views across
your organization.

5. How does Tableau Works
Add Sales Add Market Add Time
1 Row 4 Rows 96 Rows
Data
Sources

6. Tableau’s Architecture
Data
Data Marts Files Cubes
Warehouse
Tableau Native Query Tableau Data Engine
Technology Technology
+ Interactive queries to the + In-memory
database + Column store
+ Leverages IT policies for SQL MDX Data Engine + Highly compressed
security Connector Connector + Optimized API specific for
+ Avoids data silos Tableau
+ Ensures fresh data results + 64-bit (32-bit version as well)
+ Values the EDW strategy
VizQL Compiler
Use this option:
+ When the source DB query
performance is slow
User Interface + To offload iterative query workload
from the source DB
+ To work offline from the network
+ To keep an archive of the data

7. Connect to data sources
+ Tableau has a long
list of data sources
that it supports.
+ Provide support for
both files and
server.
+ It also support
ODBC connection.

8. Tableau Visualizations
+ Tableau provides a wide range of charts and maps to
visualize data.
+ But what it differentiates it from other Business intelligence
tools is the ― Show me! ‖ option.
+ Sometimes you know precisely the data you want to look at,
but don't know how to generate an effective view.
+ In the above scenario all you need to, select dimension’s and
the desired measures and click on the ― Show me! ‖ option.
+ Tableau will provide you all the possible charts that you can
create with the selected dimension and measures.

9. Show Me

10. Tableau Charts and Maps
Horizontal Bars Scatter plots

11. Tableau Charts and Maps
Area Chart Time series

12. Tableau Charts and Maps
Key performance indicators Maps

13. Tableau Dashboards

14. Tableau Server
+ 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.
+ 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.
+ It deploys in minutes and users can produce thousands
of reports without the need of IT services — all within
your IT infrastructure.

15. Tableau Server
Web Browser
• Interactive Data
• Zero footprint Tableau Server Sources
• Web 2.0
Web Applications
• Portals
• Dynamic
• Embeddable
Tableau
Professional
• Author
• Publish
• Retrieve

16. Tableau Server

17. Tableau Distribution Options
Export
• Image/Data
• Print to PDF
• Crosstab to Excel
Data
Sources Tableau Reader
• Free
• Offline
Connect Distribute
• Interactive
• Packaged File
Tableau
• Create/Author Tableau Server
• Adhoc Analysis • Online
• Live connection
• Interactive
• Secure
• Zero footprint
Tableau Public
• Free
• Online
• Interactive
• Public

18. Tableau Software, Inc.
Tableau makes rapid-fire business Customers
intelligence software • Apple
• Microsoft
• Wells Fargo
•Founded in 2004, headquartered in Seattle, • Zynga
WA • Bank of America
• Wal*Mart
•Fastest growing business intelligence • Safeway
company in the world • Pfizer
• Merck
• Ferrari
• GM
• CBS
+ 1000’s more

19. Tableau Timeline
• 2nd Year - Magic
• 1st Year - Magic
Quadrant Challenger
Quadrant
Challenger • Launched Tableau
Digital
• Launched
Tableau Public
• Inc. 500 list
• 2nd Annual
•1stAnnual Customer
Customer Conference
Conference 67% increase in
•Defense grant to attendance
Stanford (sold out) • Opened first
• Stanford spin- European office
• Deloitte Fast 500
out •Hosted 1st European
• Launched User Conference in
• First patents; Tableau Server • Tableau Server
invention of • Awarded receives a Stevie Amsterdam
product
VizQL™ “Product of the • Over 65,000 users in
Year” for 1st time 100 countries
• Launched • Global OEM deal • SQL Server
by PC Magazine • Chuck Geschke
Tableau Desktop (expansion) signed Magazine • Released 6.1
• Launched Beta (Chairman of including German &
Adobe) joins with Oracle
Tableau Server French localization,
Board of Directors Best BI &
product and mobile
Reporting Tool
• Hyperion global
OEM deal
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