True self-service business intelligence software

Tableau Server is business intelligence software that provides browser-based analytics anyone can learn and use.

Tableau Server is a software application that makes sharing live, interactive data visualizations, dashboards, reports and workbooks from Tableau Desktop fast and easy. With enterprise-class security and performance to support large deployments. And extract options let you manage the load on your mission-critical databases and cubes.

This software deploys in minutes, and it’s easy to maintain. Users can publish and collaborate via a web browser. Or embed Tableau views in other web applications. Business users can produce thousands of reports without the need of IT. And all within your existing IT infrastructure. People with Tableau Interactor licenses can interact, filter, sort and customize views. People with Tableau Viewer licenses can see and monitor views as published. Your company will be up and running in minutes.

Why you’ll love Tableau Server

  • Fast web analytics. Put live interactive analytics on the web in seconds.
  • Data scalability. No limit on the size of data you can work with.
  • Replace or Give Life to Your BI Platform. Replace your BI Platform completely, or run Tableau in parallel with your current system.
  • Built to suit different kinds of users. Provide Interactor licenses to people who want to interact and customize the views. Provide Viewer licenses to people who just want to view and monitor.
  • Free training. Live or On-Demand training online.
  • Examples
  • Features
  • Tech Specs

Quickly browse through all the views on your server.

Understanding data is not only for a few experts.

Join the conversation to enrich everyone's analytic experience.

Tableau Server provides a library of visual results for the web.

Tableau Server lets you embed visual analytics where your users are looking.

Tableau Server is a web based product that delivers live, interactive real-time data of visualizations created with Tableau Desktop Professional.

Share

  • Share your Tableau workbooks with anyone with a browser.
  • Deliver current data with every view.
  • Embed Tableau views in other web apps including Sharepoint.
  • No more isolated desktops.
  • Publish once - Server dynamically filters data based on who’s viewing.

Interact

  • Set filters to limit the data in the view.
  • Page through slices of the data.
  • Sort, keep and exclude individual data values.
  • View details and export data and images.
  • Follow links through a guided analysis path.
  • Users see only data they are authorized to see.

Participate

  • Add explanatory notes, pose a hypothesis, ask a clarifying question, or just contribute an opinion.
  • Read comments to see the discussion happening on the data.
  • Publish interactive dashboards to the web.
  • Organize content in a way that best suits your needs by using tags.

Browse

  • Quickly identify interesting views by browsing thumbnail images.
  • Sort and filter lists of available content to find just what you are interested in.
  • Searching for content finds precise matches, including searching the structure of the content for the data items included.

Embed

  • Embed Tableau views in nearly any web app with just a URL.
  • Deliver current data with every view.
  • Securely distribute analytic information.
  • Embed in intranets and applications like Sharepoint.
  • Control capabilities. For example, include the Server toolbar or not.

      • Access


      In addition to Server Administrator, there are two user license types:
      • Tableau Interactor – filter, sort, keep/exclude values, view underlying data, zoom, pan, grab, open hyperlinks to other Tableau views, customize and save view preferences, view, highlight data series via legend, open hyperlinks to external systems, comment and tag, export view-level data, images and crosstabs; navigate data hierarchies, print and create PDFs, and refresh/pause data updates.
      • Tableau Viewer – view, comment, export view-level data, get tooltips on any mark, print and create PDFs, and refresh data updates.

Tableau Server

Browser Compatibility:

Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6, 7, & 8, Mozilla Firefox 3.x and higher, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari 3.x


Connects to Data Sources:

Firebird 2.0 or later, Hyperion Essbase 7x and System 9 or later, IBM DB2 8.0 or later (running on pSeries or xSeries), Microsoft Access 2000 or later, Microsoft Analysis Services 2000, 2005, or 2008, MicrosoftExcel 2000 or later, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005, or 2008, MySQL 3.23 or later, Netezza 3 or later (requires Netezza ODBC driver version 3.1.4 or later), Oracle 9i or later, PostgreSQL 7.0 or later, Teradata 6 or later, Text files (comma delimited format), Vertica 2.2.0 or later.


System Requirements:

  • Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008, Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 sp1 or higher, Vista, or XP sp3 or higher*
  • 32-bit or 64-bit versions of Windows**
  • 32-bit color depth recommended
  • Dual-core, 1.8 GHz or higher minimum recommended CPU
  • 2 gigabytes minimum system memory
  • 500 megabytes minimum free disk space

User Authentication and Security:

Supports Microsoft Active Directory, in addition to the built-in Tableau user system, for user authentication and group membership definitions.


Virtual Environments:

Parallels, VMWare, Microsoft Virtual PC, and Citrix environments.***

Internationalization:

All of Tableau’s products are Unicode enabled and compatible with data stored in any language. The user interface and supporting documentation are in English.


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*Before installing the Tableau Server on your Windows Vista or XP desktop, Tableau recommends that you consult any applicable license agreements that may restrict or otherwise limit your ability to install server applications on your desktop operating system.


**Tableau Server has been tested and is supported on 64-bit Windows versions. Tableau is a 32-bit application and does require 32-bit versions of the database drivers, even when running on 64-bit versions of Windows.

***All of Tableau’s products operate in virtualized environments when they are configured with the proper underlying Windows operating system and minimum hardware requirements.


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