What is Tableau for reporting?

Tableau has been created in a bid to provide all users, technical or otherwise, the ability to gather insights from data in easily digestible formats. Historically, Data Analysts were usually employed to provide these insights and spent a long time learning how to pull and present raw data. Now however, with tools such as Tableau, anyone can access this data in a format that suits them.

So what is Tableau?

Tableau allows companies to pull and read data from your data sources whether they be on premises or in the cloud. This reporting tool is able to identify measurements such as sales, revenue, inventory volumes etc. and apply dimensions such as date, purchase order, or customer information to create specific and accurate reporting. Users can choose dimensions and measurements using the simple drag and drop functionality to create reports. They can also create tables, histograms or pie charts depending on the data chosen and create forecasting models.

Another powerful feature of Tableau is that the reports created can be scheduled to update on a specific day or time or run in near real time.