Tableau Server
Tableau Server is a web product of Tableau that allows users to do collaborative work on the same database at two different places. People can access it ,either through mobile or the desktop. Moreover, it also provides more security, user roles, permissions and scheduling options.
Merits of Tableau Server:
- Controlled and consistent access to data is ensured via Tableau Server’s centralized platform, which users may utilize to publish, distribute, and manage their representations.
- Scalability: Tableau Server is appropriate for enterprise-level deployments since it can handle enormous amounts of data and user traffic.
Demerits of Tableau Server:
- Implementing Tableau Server costs more in terms of hardware, software, and infrastructure requirements. For tiny organizations with insufficient resources, it might not be practical.
- IT dependence: Because it typically takes IT skills to set up and manage Tableau Server, this could be a drawback for businesses with limited technical resources.
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.