by Daniel J. Power
Editor, DSSResources.COM

Tableau Software (http://www.tableausoftware.com/) develops and markets software applications for fast analysis and visualization for business intelligence. Tableau Desktop is an easy to use data visualization application for structured data that produces interactive graphs, dashboards, and reports quickly. Tableau connects to many data sources from spreadsheets to data warehouses and displays information using many graph and chart types. Tableau Reader is a free viewing application for packaged workbooks created by Tableau Desktop. Tableau Server is a tool for creating online and mobile business intelligence solutions. Tableau Online is a hosted version of Tableau Server.

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Tableau Desktop Help at http://onlinehelp.tableausoftware.com/v7.0/pro/online/en-us/help.htm#preface_st.html