It's intuitive to maintain and it is also the place where we can publish dashboards. Visual tool that manage and monitor everything from user permissions to data source connectivity and the status of the server. We can also use calculations to express data in different ways. The Prep Builder can be very useful to find and fix data problems and inconsistencies in an instant, without coding.

We can connect to many different data sources (such as spreadsheet - Excel, on-premise database - SQL Server or cloud applications - Amazon Redshift). It is a intuitive interface that can quickly transform and shape our data. Prep Builder is the tool to help preparing and cleaning the data. It is the main tool of Tableau platform and has the following features:Ĭreate powerful and interactive dashboardsĭrag and drop to discover trends and outliersĮasily combine data from multiple sources in 1 simple view It works through four main products: Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep Builder, Tableau Server and Tableau Online. Tableau offers interactive data visualization products focused on business intelligence.

In the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant (February 2019), Tableau is the Top 2 Leader BI tool, ahead of other market's competitors such as SAP, Oracle and IBM. This means that it is a platform that execute well against their current vision and is well positioned for tomorrow. Tableau has always been one of the top BI platforms and, according to the Annual Gartner Magical Quadrant, always positioned as a Leader. With this research, we want to learn more about this tool, how it works, what are the main functionalities/features, where it can be used, and what's his performance. Our initial idea was to load a TPC-DS into a database and create reports for general/middle managers. We choose Tableau as our topic because we had never worked with this platform before and we were curious/interested in knowing it, so we decided to explore it.

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