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Answered a question: How is Tableau 8 different from from the previous version?
There's a lot of info on the web on this but the most succinct is probably Tableau's own release docs:
http://www.tableausoftware.com/new-features/8.0
http://www.tableausoftware.com/new-features/server-enhancements
Over 9 years ago
Contributed a review of Tableau: Tableau is an excellent data discovery and visualisation tool, enabling intuitive data analysis without formal training.
Over 9 years ago
Commented on Great for users trying to perform data visualization with just Excel, but lacks control for some organizations
I see where you are coming from and agree with it for some use cases, not for others
Tableau, and other data discovery tools, have a metadata layer and calculation functionality that enable quite a lot of transformation, joining, summarising and in Tableau's case…
Over 9 years ago
Commented on Great for users trying to perform data visualization with just Excel, but lacks control for some organizations
Couple of corrections if I may
1) Tableau Desktop doesn't come in personal and enterprise versions. You can get a free trial version of the full product for 21 days but to use it for longer you'll have to buy it.
2) Tableau Reader is a free desktop viewing client, not…
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10 years business experience in life insurance industry, followed by 15 years experience as an analyst developer in a wide range of technologies, including:
COBOL, PL1, CICS, Mantis on IBM mainframe
C++, Java, VB(6)
Currently working as a lead analyst and developer in Business Intelligence, delivering data warehousing and reporting using Oracle, PLSQL, Application Express, Discoverer (OLAP and OLTP), Tableau, SQL Server 2008R2 and SSIS.
