#Tableau prep license software#

The company has since expanded its Fremont headquarters and announced plans in 2016 for an auxiliary campus in suburban Kirkland, Washington.

Tableau was founded in January 2003 by Pat Hanrahan, Christian Chabot, and Chris Stolte, and moved its headquarters to the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, the following year.

#Tableau prep license software#

Tableau software can connect the following data sources Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Text Files (txt, csv), import from workbook (tbm), Table data Extract (tds). Geographies can be grouped to create custom territories or custom geocoding used to extend existing geographic roles in the product. The built-in geo-coding allows for administrative places (country, state/province, county/district), postal codes, US Congressional Districts, US CBSA/ MSA, Area Codes, Airports, and European Union statistical areas ( NUTS codes) to be mapped automatically. Tableau has a mapping functionality, and is able to plot latitude and longitude coordinates and connect to spatial files like Esri Shapefiles, KML, and GeoJSON to display custom geography.

Some visualizations created by Tableau Software. The software can also extract, store, and retrieve data from an in-memory data engine. Tableau products query relational databases, online analytical processing cubes, cloud databases, and spreadsheets to generate graph-type data visualizations. They specialized in visualization techniques for exploring and analyzing relational databases and data cubes, and started the company as a commercial outlet for research at Stanford from 1999 to 2002. The company's founders, Christian Chabot, Pat Hanrahan and Chris Stolte, were researchers at the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. It was later surpassed by Salesforce's acquisition of Slack. At the time, this was the largest acquisition by Salesforce (a leader in the CRM field) since its foundation. In 2019 the company was acquired by Salesforce for $15.7 billion. It was founded in 2003 in Mountain View, California, and is currently headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Tableau Software ( / t æ b ˈ l oʊ/ tab- LOH) is an American interactive data visualization software company focused on business intelligence.