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 Desktop Tableau Server Tableau Reader
Tableau Products
+ web-based business
intelligence platform
+ rapid-fire analytics and
dashboarding
+ secure information and
metadata management
+ integration with portals
and applications
+ enterprise collaboration
+ Tableau reader is a free
viewing application that lets
you read and interact with
packaged workbooks
created by Tableau desktop.
+ on-the-fly web applications
with no programming
+ tell stories, create
conversations
+ scales to millions of users
+ Tableau Public - companion
free product
+ explore, visualize, and
analyze data
+ answer any question
+ blazing speed against
massive data
+ create dashboards to
consolidate views
+ share interactive data
experiences
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
Data
Sources
Add Sales
1 Row
Add Market
4 Rows
Add Time
96 Rows
6. SQL
Connector
MDX
Connector
Data Engine
VizQL Compiler
User Interface
Tableau’s Architecture
Data Marts
Data
Warehouse
Files Cubes
+ When the source DB query
performance is slow
+ To offload iterative query workload
from the source DB
+ To work offline from the network
+ To keep an archive of the data
Use this option:
Tableau Native Query
Technology
+ Interactive queries to the
database
+ Leverages IT policies for
security
+ Avoids data silos
+ Ensures fresh data results
+ Values the EDW strategy
Tableau Data Engine
Technology
+ In-memory
+ Column store
+ Highly compressed
+ Optimized API specific for
Tableau
+ 64-bit (32-bit version as well)
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.
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.
17. Tableau Distribution Options
Data
Sources
Tableau
• Create/Author
• Adhoc Analysis
Tableau Server
• Online
• Live connection
• Interactive
• Secure
• Zero footprint
Tableau Reader
• Free
• Offline
• Interactive
• Packaged File
Export
• Image/Data
• Print to PDF
• Crosstab to Excel
Tableau Public
• Free
• Online
• Interactive
• Public
Connect Distribute
18. Tableau Software, Inc.
Tableau makes rapid-fire business
intelligence software
•Founded in 2004, headquartered in Seattle,
WA
•Fastest growing business intelligence
company in the world
Customers
• Apple
• Microsoft
• Wells Fargo
• Zynga
• Bank of America
• Wal*Mart
• Safeway
• Pfizer
• Merck
• Ferrari
• GM
• CBS
+ 1000’s more
19. Tableau Timeline
1997 - 2005
•Defense grant to
Stanford
• Stanford spin-
out
• First patents;
invention of
VizQL™
• Launched
Tableau Desktop
• Hyperion global
OEM deal
2009
• Awarded
“Product of the
Year” for 1st time
by PC Magazine
• Launched Beta
Tableau Server
product
2006
• Launched
Tableau Server
product
• Chuck Geschke
(Chairman of
Adobe) joins
Board of Directors
2007 2008
• 1st Annual
Customer
Conference
(sold out)
• Tableau Server
receives a Stevie
• Global OEM deal
(expansion) signed
with Oracle
2010
• Inc. 500 list
• 2nd Annual
Customer
Conference
67% increase in
attendance
• Deloitte Fast 500
• SQL Server
Magazine
Best BI &
Reporting Tool
• 1st Year - Magic
Quadrant
Challenger
• Launched
Tableau Public
2011
• 2nd Year - Magic
Quadrant Challenger
• Launched Tableau
Digital
• Opened first
European office
•Hosted 1st European
User Conference in
Amsterdam
• Over 65,000 users in
100 countries
• Released 6.1
including German &
French localization,
and mobile
