Tableau
Introduction to Tableau Desktop Software: Workspace & Navigation
Tableau Desktop Workspace In the start screen, go to File > New to open a Tableau Workspace The...
Tableau is a powerful and fastest-growing data visualization tool used in the business intelligence industry. It allows you to simplify raw data into a very easily understandable format.
Data analysis is very fast with Tableau, and the visualizations created are in the form of dashboards and worksheets. This helps professionals to understand the data that is created using Tableau at any level in an organization.
In this tutorial, you will learn:
Power BI is a Business Intelligence and Data Visualization tool which helps you to convert data from the various data source into interactive dashboards and BI reports. It also provides multiple software connectors and services.
Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence tool that helps you to handle data from different sources and provides visualization after the cleaning and integration process. It also offers a feature of Adhoc report generation, which helps in the analysis of the data.
Here are important features of Tableau:
Here, are essential features of Power BI
Here are various types of Tableau products:
Tableau Desktop offers a rich feature set and allows you to code and customize reports. Begin by creating the charts, reports, to blending them all together to form a dashboard to all the necessary work is created in Tableau Desktop. The workbooks and the dashboards created here can be either shared locally or publicly.
The development features are similar to Tableau Desktop. Personal version keeps the workbook private and offers limited access. The workbooks cannot be published online. Therefore, it should be distributed either offline or in Tableau Public.
It is pretty much similar to Tableau Desktop. The difference is that the work created in the Tableau Desktop can be published online or in Tableau Server. Also, in the Professional version, there is full access to all sorts of the datatype.
It is the Tableau version specially build for cost-effective users. Filed saved in Tableau's public cloud, which can be viewed and accessed by anyone.
There is no privacy to the files saved to the cloud as anyone can download and access the same. This version is the best for the individuals who want to learn Tableau BI.
Tableau server is used to share the workbooks and visualizations that are created in the Tableau Desktop application across the organization. To share dashboards in the Tableau Server, you must first publish your work in the Tableau Desktop.
Once the work has been uploaded to the server, it will be accessible only to the licensed users. However, It's not necessary that the licensed users need to have the Tableau Server installed on their machine.
As its name suggests, it is an online sharing tool of Tableau. Its functionalities are similar to Tableau Server, but the data is stored on servers hosted in the cloud, which are maintained by the Tableau group.
There is no storage limit on the data that can be published in the Tableau Online.
Tableau Reader is free to use tool which allows you to view the workbooks and visualizations created using Tableau Desktop or Tableau Public. However, the security level is zero in Tableau Reader as anyone who gets the workbook can view it using Tableau Reader.
Here are some important Power BI tools:
Power BI Desktop is the primary authoring and publishing tool for Power BI. Developers use it to create brand new models and reports from scratch.
Power BI service is an online Software as a Service (SaaS) where Power Bl data models, reports, and dashboards are hosted. Administration, sharing, and collaboration happens in the cloud.
Power BI Data Gateway works as the bridge between the Power Bl Service and on-premise data sources like Direct Query, Import, Live Query. It is Installed by Bl Admin.
It can host paginated reports, mobile reports, & Power Bl Desktop reports. The users can modify Power Bl reports other reports created by the development team.
Power BI mobile app is available for iOS, Android, Windows. It can be managed using Microsoft Intune. The tool allows you to view reports and dashboards on the Power Bl Service Report Server.
Here, are major differences between Tableau vs. PowerBI
Tableau | Power BI |
Tableau BI can handle a huge volume of data with better performance. | Power BI can handle a limited volume of data. |
Tableau platform is known for its data visualization functionality. The users can use 24 different types of visualizations in Tableau. | PowerBi offers numerous data points to offer data visualization. lt is offering more than 3500 data points for drilling down the dataset. |
Tableau has excellent customer support. It has a large community forum for discussions. | Power Bl provides limited customer support to its users with a free Power Bl account. However, the paid version users will get faster support compared with the free version. |
Tableau works best when there is a vast data in the cloud. | Power Bl doesn't work better with a massive amount of data |
Analysts and experienced- users mostly use for their analytics purposes. | It is used by both naive and experienced users. |
Tableau is a little difficult. | Power BI Interface is very easy to learn. |
The information can be stored by using the Tableau server. | Power BI concentrates more on reporting and analytical modeling but not for storing the data. |
Suitable for medium & Large type of Organisation. | Suitable for Small, medium & large type of organization. |
Tableau deploys MDX for measures and dimensions. | Power BI uses DAX for calculating and measuring columns. |
Tableau can connect to numerous data sources. | Power BI connects limited data sources while increasing its data source connectors in monthly updates. |
Embedding report is a real-time challenge in Tableau | Embedding report is easy with Power BI. |
Here, are pros/benefits of using Tableau BI:
Here, are pros/benefits of Power BI
Here, are cons/drawbacks of Power BI
Here, are cons/drawbacks of Tableau
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