With the rise of cloud computing and cloud storage, the era of «Big Data» has begun. Thanks to the abundance of computing power and storage, organisations and employees with very different roles and responsibilities can benefit from data analysis to gain timely insights and achieve competitive advantages. Data-driven visualisations let everyone explore, analyse and report on insights and trends from data. The Tableau® software is designed exactly for this purpose. Tableau was developed to connect to a wide variety of data sources and enables users to quickly create visualisations of connected data in order to gain insights, reveal trends and create reports. Beyond the basic capabilities of creating data-driven visualisations, users can use Tableau to manipulate data with calculations to surface insights, make visualisations interactive and perform statistical analysis. This allows users to create data-driven insights and share them with colleagues, executives and customers.
