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Data Sources

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Add Market

4 Rows

Add Time

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How Does Tableau Work?

Data Sources

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Tableau Server

Tableau Server

Data Sources

Tableau Professional•Author•Publish•Retrieve

Web Browser•Interactive•Zero footprint•Web 2.0

Web Applications•Portals•Dynamic•Embeddable

Tableau Server – Standard Data flow

Tableau Server

Data Sources

Web user initiates request

Tableau Server queries data source(s)

1st Data set(s) returned to Tableau Server

Interactors can filter, sort, refresh, export, etc. Queries are either resolved in the Tableau Server

cache or are re-sent to the data source.

Tableau visualization is presented with fresh data

Tableau Professional

Publishes/downloads workbook and data

sources

Tableau Repository

Repository stores Tableau Server

Metadata

Tableau Server

Tableau Server

Data S

ources

SearchWeb App

Web App

Web App

Repository

HTTP(S

) Serv

er

Tableau Professional

Web Browser

publishes to and opens from the server

interacts with server content

Web App

Web AppVizQL Server

Secu

rity

connects directly to data sources

Web Applications

User Mgmt (AD)

Web App

Web App

Active Cache

Extract Storage

Tableau Server – Extract Data flow

Tableau Server

Web user initiates request

Data Sources

Optional: Tableau Data Extracts can be refreshed on a

schedule.

Tableau visualization is presented with fresh data

“Interactors” can filter, sort, refresh, export, etc. Queries are either resolved in the Tableau Server

cache or are re-sent to the data source.

Tableau Professional

Publishes/downloads workbook with Tableau

Data Extract file

Tableau Repository

Repository stores Tableau Server

Metadata

Tableau Extract Storage Database

Web application