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Technical Specifications

Tableau Desktop: professional edition

  • Contains all analysis & visualization features
  • Connects to all Tableau supported data sources, including relational databases, multi-dimensional databases and desktop files
  • Microsoft® Windows® 7, Vista, XP, Server 2008, Server 2003
  • 250 megabytes minimum free disk space
  • 32-bit or 64-bit versions of Windows**
  • 32-bit color depth recommended Note: Internet Explorer 6 is not supported.
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Tableau Desktop: personal edition

  • Contains all analysis & visualization features
  • Connects to desktop data files – Excel, Access, text (csv) files, and Tableau data extracts
  • Microsoft® Windows® Vista, XP, 7, Server 2008 or 2003
  • 250 megabytes minimum free disk space
  • 32-bit or 64-bit versions of Windows**
  • 32-bit color depth recommended
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Tableau Reader

  • Opens any Tableau Packaged Workbook in a simplified user experience optimized for viewing
  • Supports viewing, filtering, paging, sorting, exporting, and printing
  • Microsoft® Windows® Vista, XP, 7, Server 2008 or 2003
  • 56 megabytes minimum free disk space
  • Compatible with 32- or 64-bit versions of Windows (see note 1)
  • 32-bit color depth recommended
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Tableau Server

  • Delivers web-based analytics from any workbook created by Tableau Professional
  • Delivered as a complete solution, no other prerequisite software required
  • Connects to all Tableau supported data sources, including relational databases, multi-dimensional databases and desktop files
  • Publish content to the server from Tableau Professional
  • Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2003 sp1 or higher, Windows® 7*
  • 32-bit or 64-bit versions of Windows**
  • 32-bit color depth recommended
  • Hardware specifications:
  • Very small deployments (i.e. proof-of-concepts or initial evaluations, 1-2 users)
    • Dual-core, 2.0 GHz or higher minimum recommended CPU
    • 2 gigabytes minimum system memory (4 gigabytes is better)
    • 1.5 gigabytes minimum free disk space
  • Small deployments (i.e. <25 users)
    • Quad-core, 2.0 GHz or higher minimum recommended CPU
    • 8 gigabytes minimum system memory
    • 5 gigabytes minimum free disk space
  • Medium deployments (i.e. <100 users)
    • Two Quad-core, 2.0 GHz or higher minimum recommended CPU
    • 32 gigabytes minimum system memory
    • 50 gigabytes minimum free disk space
  • Enterprise deployments
    • Contact Tableau for sizing and technical guidance Machine configurations are minimum recommended guidelines. Actual hardware configurations required will vary depending on user load, data volumes, viz complexity, and other factors.
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Data Sources

  • Actian Vectorwise
  • Aster Data nCluster
  • Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop via Hive
  • Firebird 2.0 or later
  • Greenplum 3.3 and later
  • IBM DB2 8.0 or later (running on pSeries or xSeries)
  • Microsoft Access 2000 or later
  • Microsoft Analysis Services 2000, 2005, or 2008
  • Microsoft Excel 2000 or later
  • Microsoft PowerPivot files (whether or not published in Sharepoint 2010)
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005, or 2008
  • Microsoft Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket
  • MySQL 3.23 or later
  • Netezza release 3.1.4 or later
  • OData
  • Oracle Hyperion Essbase 7x and System 9 or later
  • Oracle Database 9i or later
  • ParAccel Analytic Database (PADB) version 2 and later
  • PostgreSQL 7.0 or later
  • Progress OpenEdge 10.2B patch 4 or later
  • Sybase IQ 12 and later
  • Teradata 6 or later
  • Text files, comma delimited format
  • Vertica 2.2.0 or later
  • Also, many databases that are ODBC Version 3.0 compliant

Internationalization

All of Tableau’s products are Unicode enabled and compatible with data stored in any language. The user interface and supporting documentation of Tableau Server are in English, French and German.

Virtualized Environments

VMWare, Microsoft Virtual PC, Parallels , and Citrix environments.

Notes

1) Tableau has been tested and is supported on 64-bit Windows versions. Tableau is a 32-bit application and does require 32-bit versions of the database drivers, even when running on 64-bit versions of Windows. 2) Before installing the Tableau Server on your Windows Vista or XP desktop, Tableau recommends that you consult any applicable license agreements that may restrict or otherwise limit your ability to install server applications on your desktop operating system.
3)Tableau products now require your computer to have at least a Pentium 4 (released in 2001) or ADM Opteron (released in 2003) processor. These are the first processors which include the SSE2 instruction set which Tableau now requires.