Tableau basics

Tableau is a powerful and fastest growing data visualization tool used in the Business Intelligence Industry.

The best features of Tableau software are

Tableau Product Suite

The Tableau Product Suite consists of

Tableau Desktop has a rich feature set and allows you to code and customize reports.
In Tableau public, workbooks created cannot be saved locally, in turn, it should be saved to the Tableau’s public cloud which can be viewed and accessed by anyone.
Tableau online has all the similar functionalities of the Tableau Server, but the data is stored on servers hosted in the cloud which are maintained by the Tableau group.
Tableau server is specifically used to share the workbooks, visualizations that are created in the Tableau Desktop application across the organization
Tableau Reader is a free tool which allows you to view the workbooks and visualizations created using Tableau Desktop or Tableau Public.
Tableau connects and extracts the data stored in various places. It can pull data from any platform imaginable and the spreadsheet application used for manipulating the data while Tableau is a perfect visualization tool used for analysis.

Tableau can be very good tool with great connectivity and user friendly feature to serve for any organizational reporting requirement.