Tableau Online
Tableau Online is a cloud-based platform that performs the same functionality as Tableau Server. Hence it removes all the overhead work of maintaining the server and establishing it. Moreover, it provides the same work of uploading the dataset on the server from anywhere via an internet connection.
Merits of Tableau Online:
- Accessibility and adaptability: Tableau Online gives users the freedom to utilize a web browser from any place to access their visualizations, which is useful for remote work or cross-location collaboration.
- Data security: To protect user data, Tableau Online provides strong security features, such as encryption, secure connections, and user authentication. In order to protect data privacy and confidentiality, it adheres to industry best practices.
Demerits of Tableau Online:
- Cloud data storage presents legitimate security issues, especially for sensitive or personal data. Companies should carefully analyze their data protection needs and the security protections offered by Tableau Online.
- Tableau Online depends on an internet connection, thus users must have a steady and dependable online connection in order to access their visualizations. This could be a drawback when there is poor internet access or when there are network interruptions.
Different Tableau Products and its Applications
Tableau is a powerful data visualization tool developed by Salesforce. It has a vast number of extensible files which helps in making the data to be visualized easily either in the form of pdf, word, excel, JSON, SQL, statistical file and many more. It supports more than 50 +file formats.
It has the capability to perform various complex operations, and analytics just in a single step of simply dragging and representing in a span of milliseconds. Other than this it also offers various customization options, filters and complex calculations, maps and different types of graphs like bar graphs, histograms, heat maps, box plots and many more.
Tableau offers different-different types of products based on the tasks to perform.
- Tableau Desktop
- Tableau Online
- Tableau Server
- Tableau Public
- Tableau Prep
Let’s talk about all these Tableau Products in detail.