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title: "What do you know about Tableau?"  
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# What do you know about Tableau?

Tableau is a dominant and most active developing [data visualization](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/328792/why-microsoft-power-bi-should-be-your-bet-in-2022-for-business-data-visualization) mechanism practiced in the [Business Intelligence](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/195656/top-reasons-why-business-intelligence-is-crucial-for-education) Industry. It supports analyzing raw data in a quite simply readable format. [Tableau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tableau_Software) assists produce data that can be interpreted by specialists at any position in an association. It also enables non-technical users to generate customized dashboards.

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[Data analysis](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/audio/1108/why-is-communication-important-in-data-analysis) is extremely active with the Tableau tool and the visualizations generated are in the design of dashboards plus worksheets.

#### The most useful characteristics of Tableau software are -

- Data Blending

- Real-time analysis

- Collaboration of data

An excellent thing about Tableau software is that it doesn't demand any [professional](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13107/scaling-the-gap-between-a-graduate-and-a-professional) or any sort of programming abilities to perform. The tool has collected concern amongst personalities of all divisions such as business, researchers, various activities, etc.

#### Tableau Product Suite

## The Tableau Product Suite combines -

- Tableau Desktop

- Tableau Public

- [Tableau Online](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/93490/do-we-need-to-take-tableau-online-course)

- Tableau Server

- Tableau Reader

Tableau combines and removes the data collected in multiple sections. It can extract data from any program possible. A manageable database such as an excel, pdf, to a complicated database like Oracle, a database in the cloud such as Amazon webs services, [Microsoft Azure](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/198746/things-you-should-know-about-microsoft-azure-as-a-cloud-developer) [SQL database](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/337535/connecting-to-sql-databases-ado-dot-net-essentials), [Google Cloud](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/155642/how-to-create-virtual-machine-instances-in-google-cloud) SQL, & several different data sources can be obtained by Tableau.

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