Tableau Questions-FAQ

What Tableau Desktop can do that Tableau Public can not do?

Tableau Desktop allows you to:

create workbooks, dashboards and visualizations. Using the professional version of this tool, you can publish your reports and all to Tableau Server/Online/Public.

• Save TWB (Tableau Workbook) and TDE (Tableau Data Extract) files locally, rather than publishing to Tableau Public
• Publish to Tableau Server(s), rather than publishing to Tableau Public
• Save TWBX (Tableau Packaged Workbook) files for use in the free Tableau Reader, rather than publishing to Tableau Public

So you pay for the right to produce private content and share it with a selected audience, rather than publish to the Tableau Public website where anyone can view your analysis (and underlying data).Tableau Public can be used for publishing info that can be accessed by anyone, but it doesn’t let you create dashboards and visualizations. Whatever you publish on this tool is not private. This free tool has a limitation when it comes to the data you can use on it. It connects to Excel and text-based files, but no other database except these.

1) Tableau Public (Server): It is the free version of Tableau Server but hosted on the cloud by Tableau Software. As it is free, it requires that all workbook and data are freely accessible to everybody. In terms of data source, all should be extracts and there is a limit of 1 millions rows.

2) Tableau Public (Desktop): it is the free version of Tableau Desktop, of course with limitations, such as the workbooks can be save only to Tableau Public (Server) and it only connects to local data.