#Tableau desktop 9.0 professional#

#Tableau desktop 9.0 professional#

Tableau Professional can connect to a wide assortment of file (Figure 2) and server data sources, including Excel workbooks, character- and tab-delimited files, statistical files, and upward of 40 server types, although 19 of those are available only from Windows.

On the other hand, other products are better for routine line-of-business reporting, even if they are not as good as these products for data discovery. As you’ll see, however, Tableau, Qlik Sense, and Power BI all offer a good selection of chart types and data sources, and they are all much easier to learn and use than the traditional BI products. Note that there are about two dozen significant products in the BI category the three I discuss here are not your only choices. Each product might be useful to you, depending on your specific requirements and budgetary limitations. The three data discovery products I’ve been reviewing over the last few months - Tableau, Qlik Sense, and Power BI - demonstrate a range of capabilities at a range of prices, with Tableau the most capable and expensive, Qlik Sense in the middle, and Power BI the least capable, but a very good value. Things got worse, not better, as the various BI product marketers got into feature wars instead of actually trying to deliver business value. Let’s face it: The first-generation BI products required their own IT priesthood to set up, and they incurred the same implementation delays as every other IT project. Watching the new, easy-to-use, exploratory business intelligence products edge out the older, feature-bloated reporting platforms for systems of record is like watching evolution in action.