Tableau

CHANGING THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT DATA

Tableau Meaning

 A group of Models or Motionless figures representing a scene from a

story or from history.
 Business Intelligence Platform
 Analytical Platform
 Visualization tool
Gartner Magic Quadrant
for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms (2019).
What is Business Intelligence?

 A set of processes, architectures, and technologies that convert raw

data into meaningful information that drives profitable business
actions.
 BI has a direct impact on organization's strategic, tactical and
operational business decisions.
 BI supports fact-based decision making using historical data rather
than assumptions and gut feeling.
 BI tools perform data analysis and create reports, summaries,
dashboards, maps, graphs, and charts to provide users with
detailed intelligence about the nature of the business.
Why is BI important?

 Measurement: creating KPI (Key Performance Indicators) based on

historic data
 With BI systems organizations can identify market trends and spot
business problems that need to be addressed.
 BI helps on data visualization that enhances the data quality and
thereby the quality of decision making.
 BI systems can be used not just by enterprises but SME (Small and
Medium Enterprises)
How Business Intelligence systems are
implemented?

 Raw Data from corporate databases is extracted.

 The data is cleaned and transformed into the data warehouse.
 Using BI system the user can ask quires, request ad-hoc reports or
conduct any other analysis.
Types of BI users
The Professional Data Analyst:
The data analyst is a statistician who always needs to drill deep down into data. BI system
helps them to get fresh insights to develop unique business strategies.

The IT users:

The IT user also plays a dominant role in maintaining the BI infrastructure.

The head of the company:

CEO or CFO can increase the profit of their business by improving operational efficiency in
their business.

The Business Users:

1. Casual business intelligence user

2. The power user
Advantages of Business Intelligence
 Boost productivity
 To improve visibility
 Fix Accountability
 It gives a bird's eye view
 It streamlines business processes
 It allows for easy analytics

Disadvantages of Business Intelligence

 Cost
 Complexity
 Limited use
 Time Consuming Implementation
Tableau and Competitors
 SAP BO Objects
 Qlik View
 IBM Cognos
 Oracle BI
 Sisence
 Dundas BI
 Microsoft Power BI
 Micro Strategy
 Domo
 Birst
 Tibco Spotfire
 Sas
 Pentaho
 Datapine
Tableau and Qlik
Basis of Difference Tableau QlikView
Performance When it comes to performance, Tableau uses the cubing Comparatively, QlikView is faster in this case. QlikView can
technique which gives out results slower than QlikView. effortlessly combine all sizes of datasets.

Interface Tableau comes with a simple drag-and-drop interface which is The interface of QlikView has too many tools on its menu which
easy, clean, and interactive. are rarely used, but they certainly provide a wide range of ways in
which the data can be showcased.

Capabilities Real-time visualization Strong visualizations with BI reporting

Suitable for Dash boarding and rapid visualizations Departmental and enterprise-wide BI solution

Product range Diverse products for varied use Single product for the entire BI solution

Gauge charts and 3D graphs Tableau does not support gauge charts and 3D graphs In QlikView, gauge charts are available and it also has 3D graphs
to showcase data.
Geographical maps In Tableau, it is easy to build map visualization. It has an inbuilt In QlikView, building map visualization takes longer, than in
extension to perform map visualization. Tableau, since it needs scripting and external extension for this.

Tables Weaker in tables Very good for tables

Speed Speed depends on RAM and the source database Speed depends on RAM

Graphical inputs and changes With easy drag and drop, graphical inputs become easy too. In QlikView, it is needed to write the logic for the areas where
graphical changes are required.
Tableau Products
 Tableau Server
 Tableau Online
 Tableau Desktop
 Tableau Public Desktop
 Tableau Reader
 Tableau Mobile
 Tableau Prep Builder
Tableau Architecture
Licensing Overview
 User-Based
 Viewer licenses - view and interact with workbooks in Tableau Server
 Explorer licenses - Create and Publish new workbook from existing
published data source
 Creator licenses - Server administration and Advanced Server
Deployment Monitoring
 Core-Based
 you can run Tableau Server on a specific number of CPU cores. For
core-based licensing, you can install Tableau Server on a single-node or
multi-node cluster, as long as the total number of cores for all of the
nodes does not exceed the number of cores that you have licensed.
Authentication

 Authentication verifies a user's identity.

 Everyone who needs to access Tableau Server—whether to
manage the server, or to publish, browse, or administer content,
must be represented as a user in the Tableau Server repository.
 Authentication Types
 Local authentication
 LDAP (light weight authentication process) –Active Directory
Tableau Hardware Specifications

Tableau Desktop
Windows

 Microsoft Windows 7 or newer (64-bit)

 Microsoft Server 2008 R2 or newer
 2 GB memory
 1.5 GB minimum free disk space

Mac

 iMac/MacBook computers 2009 or newer

 Mac OS High Sierra 10.13, mac OS Mojave 10.14 and mac OS Catalina 10.15
 1.5 GB minimum free disk space
Tableau Hardware Specifications

Tableau Prep
OS Requirements Windows Mac
 Microsoft Windows 7 or  Mac OS High Sierra 10.13,
newer (64-bit) mac OS Mojave 10.14
 Microsoft Windows Server and mac OS Catalina
12R2 or newer 10.15

Minimum System Windows Mac

Requirements  Intel Core i3 or AMD  Intel Core i3 (Dual Core)
Ryzen 3 (Dual Core)  4GB or larger
 4GB or larger  2GB HDD free or larger*
 2GB HDD free or larger*
Tableau Hardware Specifications

Tableau Prep
Recommended Windows Mac
Requirements  Intel Core i7 or AMD  Intel Core i7 (Quad Core)
Ryzen 7 (Quad Core)  16GB or larger
 16GB or larger  2GB SSD free or larger*
 2GB SSD free or larger*

High Performance Windows

Requirements  Intel Core i7 or AMD
Ryzen 7 (16 Core)
 32GB or larger
 2GB SSD free or larger*
Tableau Hardware Specifications

Tableau Server
System
Requirements  Microsoft Windows Server 2016, 2012, 2012 R2, 2008 R2, 2019
 Amazon Linux 2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.3+, CentOS
7.3+, Debian 9.0+, Oracle Linux 7.3+, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 18.04
LTS on x64 chipsets

Proof of Concept Tableau will not proceed on computers with less than these hardware minimums
Requirements  4 cores / 8v-CPU (ex.AWS)
 16 GB system memory
 15 GB minimum free disk space
Tableau Hardware Specifications

Tableau Server

Minimum Production
Requirements
Tableau will not proceed on computers with less than these hardware minimums

 8 physical cores, 16V-CPU (ex. AWS)

 32 GB system memory
 50 GB minimum free disk space
Download and Install Software

https://www.tableau.com/support/releases

Tableau provides a 14-days trial version of tableau desktop.

You can use the same and practice it on your own

https://www.tableau.com/academic/students

If you are a Student (Holding valid Student ID),

then you can download the Tableau for Students, and license valid for one year.
Tableau Versions
 2019.4 is current standard version as of November 2019.
 Released on November 6, 2019

 2019.3
 2019.3.1 Released On October 24, 2019
 2019.3 Released on September 17, 2019

 2019.2
 2019.2.5 Released on October 24, 2019
 2019.2.4 Released on September 17, 2019
 2019.2.3 Released on August 22, 2019
 2019.2.2 Released on July 23, 2019
 2019.2.1 Released on June 25, 2019
 2019.2 Released on May 21, 2019
Tableau File Extensions

.TWB (Tableau Workbook)

.TWBX (Tableau Packaged Workbook)

.TDE or .HYPER (Tableau Data Extract)

.TDS (Tableau Data Source)

.TDSX (Tableau Packaged Data Source)

.TBM (Tableau Bookmark)