Tableau on Cloud!!
From individual databases to cloud, on-premise, and hybrid deployment options, the data landscape is a labyrinth of choice. The market is full of innovation, and new databases, Hadoop tools, and cloud-hosting solutions are emerging on what can feel like a daily basis.
Tableau Online customers are located around the world. They span nearly every industry, and vary from small businesses to enterprise corporations.
What’s so different about Tableau Online?
Fast & Flexible
Getting started is just a matter of clicks. You can start with one user or one hundred. Scale up as fast as you want and never worry about infrastructure. When you add users, they get an email, create a username & password, and then simply go to a web page to sign in.
Works with any data
Tableau Online works with all your data: on-premise data and data in the cloud. You can access data from databases, data warehouses, Hadoop clusters, Excel files and cloud applications.
- If, like most organizations, your data is on-premise, you can push data to Tableau Online on a schedule.
- If you’re working with cloud services like Salesforce and Google Analytics, Tableau Online can keep your data up to date right in the cloud.
- If you’re one of those forward-thinking customers using cloud-based data warehouses like Google BigQuery and Amazon Redshift, you can define a live connection between Tableau Online and that service. This means you’ll have real-time data in Tableau Online.
- All of the above? That works too. Mix and match, it all works.
A complete solution
Tableau Online isn’t just about sharing workbooks, it’s also about sharing data (and metadata). Tableau Online incorporates the Tableau Data Server, a component that lets you publish data sources and keep them up to date automatically. You can point your dashboards at those data sources and then they’re also kept up to date. The Data Server also lets you define and share metadata across an organization.
Share with customers and partners
Since Tableau Online lives in the cloud, your customers and partners need not get inside your firewall to collaborate. Many of Tableau Online’s early customers take advantage of this. For example, Bunchball uses Tableau Online to share analytics about its gamification platform with customers. Keith Conley, Director of Insight and Analytics at Bunchball, says that “this increases their level of engagement.”
Easily mobile
Likewise, when you want to view dashboards on your iPad or Android tablet, simply point to Tableau Online and sign in. You get complete data security without needing to VPN in.
An upgrade path
Cloud analytics is relatively new. It’s worth giving it a try. But if you later decide to bring your business intelligence on-premise, that’s fine. You can transition seamlessly to Tableau Server, or stay on Tableau Online and grow your usage as your organization grows.