Latest revision as of 23:58, 1 January 2026

Tableau

Tableau is an analytics platform used to connect to data, prepare it, and build interactive dashboards that can be shared and governed across an organisation.

Products

Tableau Desktop: The primary application used by data and business analysts to explore data, build dashboards, and publish analytical content to Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud.

Tableau Prep: A visual data preparation tool typically used by analysts and data engineers to clean, combine, and reshape data into reusable flows before analysis.

Tableau Server / Tableau Cloud: A self-managed analytics platform operated by BI and analytics platform teams to publish, share, and govern Tableau content within an organisation.

Tableau Bridge: A service used alongside Tableau Cloud to keep data fresh when data sources are not directly reachable, often operated by data or platform engineering teams.

Developer Tools & APIs: A set of APIs and SDKs used by software and platform engineers to automate Tableau operations and integrate analytics into enterprise workflows.

Tableau Desktop

Course	Tags
Improve Workbook Performance	Performance
Caching	Performance
Tableau File Extensions	Desktop
Performance Recorder	Performance
Data Sources: Embedded vs Published	Data Source
Tableau Desktop vs Power BI Desktop	Comparison
Tableau Desktop vs Tableau Public	Comparison
3D Visualisation	Viz

Tableau Prep

Course	Tags
Tableau Prep (index)	Getting Started

Tableau Server / Cloud

Course	Tags
Improve Workbook Performance	Performance
Caching	Performance
Virtual Connection	Data Source
Install Tableau Bridge on Linux with Docker	Linux, Tableau Bridge, Tableau Cloud
Install Tableau Server on Linux	Linux, Tableau Server
Install Tableau Server on Windows Server	Tableau Server, Windows Server
Tableau File Extensions	Administration
Logshark	Performance, Tableau Server
Performance Recorder	Performance
Tableau Server Processes	Tableau Cloud, Tableau Server
REST API	API
Connect to the Tableau Repository (Postgres)	Tableau Server
Data Sources: Embedded vs Published	Data Source
Tabjolt	Performance, Tableau Server, Windows Server
Tableau Server Topology	Tableau Server

Tableau APIs / SDK

Course	Tags
Hyper SDK	SDK
REST API	API
TSC (Tableau Server Client)	Python
Web Data Connector 3.0 SDK	SDK

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 == Products ==
 ;[https://www.tableau.com/products/desktop Tableau Desktop]
-:The primary authoring application used by data and business analysts to explore data, build dashboards, and publish analytical content to Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud.
+:The primary application used by data and business analysts to explore data, build dashboards, and publish analytical content to Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud.
 ;[https://www.tableau.com/products/prep Tableau Prep]
 :A visual data preparation tool typically used by analysts and data engineers to clean, combine, and reshape data into reusable flows before analysis.
-;[https://www.tableau.com/products/server Tableau Server]
+;[https://www.tableau.com/products/server Tableau Server] / [https://www.tableau.com/products/cloud-bi Tableau Cloud]
 :A self-managed analytics platform operated by BI and analytics platform teams to publish, share, and govern Tableau content within an organisation.
-;[https://www.tableau.com/products/cloud-bi Tableau Cloud]
-:A fully hosted analytics platform used by organisations that want to publish and govern analytics without managing server infrastructure, commonly administered by BI platform owners.
 ;[https://help.tableau.com/current/online/en-us/data_fresh_sync_section.htm Tableau Bridge]