The Era of Tableau - How It Turned Out to Be An Outstanding Tool

Posted by soumya dixit on March 3rd, 2020

Tableau is the most powerful, flexible and secure end-to-end visualization tool which performs data analytics. Tableau is well known as the Visual perceptions are obtained from Tableau without any coding. And above all Tableau can be used across different mediums and platforms to perform functions. 

How did the Tableau tool emerge? 

In the earlier phase, databases were used to produce data and numbers. IT professionals were given the role of analyzing the data and creating reports. Tableau was founded by Pat Hanrahan, Christian Chabot, and Chris Stolte from Stanford University in 2003.  

There was a simple mission behind the founding of Tableau. It will put the power of data into the hands of common people, will allow the business people to interact with their data, solve problems, ask questions, create value etc. 

 The main principle of inventing tableau was to build up a basic and easy to understand tool that can help you in making graphs, outlines, maps, and reports. Additionally Tableau also helps us perform the perspective data analysis. 

Arise of Tableau 

October 2011 A draft version of the tableau software-independent book “The Accidental Analyst: Show Your Data Who’s Boss” was released. Later on, the framework for business analysts based on the scientific method was developed. 

The company has seen rapid growth over the last 10 years and by today, Tableau the market leader in terms of new license sales. It's used broadly across many industries. Nowadays Tableau has gained the recognition as an administrative and data-governance tool which meets all the need of the large Global companies. Because of that Tableau has become the most emerging among the tech enthusiasts and Tableau certification has become the most required knowledge. 

How does tableau work? 

• Data Manipulation - Data manipulation is performed by, getting data, gathering reports from databases, uniting the data, and redirecting the serious issues to the deploying software. Tableau is referred to as the best examination tool as it is valuable in executing data investigation.

• Data Integration - Connecting data has never been this easy in the past generation.

Similarly, compatibility issues don't happen as Tableau tool encourages us in building new combinations with any software or any kind of programming languages

• Big data Revolution - The practice of visualizing data in excel sheets has come to an end since it was not manageable due to the exchange of large data from databases. There is where Tableau came as a light to help in resolving issues related to big data

Why Tableau was a huge hit?

Tableau tool is a very flexible tool that is available in different formats like Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, and Tableau Online. Whereas there are various factors which made Tableau a monster hit.

• Tableau was powered by VizQL language, making it more flexible to pull data from any source.
• Tableau can analyze and display the data in real-time.
• Tableau provides a Feature of generating n number of visualization tools to customize the Tableau reports.
• Tableau performs cluster analysis, Data breakthroughs & Self-service at a scale.
• All the complicated graphs and maps can be prepared with drags and drops method.
• Tableau data visualizations can be inserted with multiple mediums and platforms.